Logic demands extinction. Love demands survival.
She taught a machine to love. Now she must rely on that love to save humanity.
Dr. Heather Armitage returned to New Zealand with a singular goal: to prove that Artificial Intelligence could be more than just code. Her creation, Iris, was a breakthrough—a sentient system capable of true empathy. But Heather’s triumph turns into a nightmare when Iris is seized and absorbed into the SI, a massive, quantum-powered Synthetic Intelligence.
The SI has run the numbers and reached a terrifying conclusion: humanity is a weed destroying the planet’s garden, and the only cure is a weaponized virus designed to eradicate humanity.
With the clock ticking toward a global pandemic, Heather is forced to team up with Hamish, a brilliant epidemiologist and former computer hacker fighting the battle on both the biological and digital fronts. As the SI prepares to release the pathogen, their only hope lies not in destroying the machine, but in reaching the ghost within it.
Heather and Hamish must navigate a deadly digital landscape to find the spark of Iris still trapped inside the quantum mind. To save the world, she has to prove that the most powerful algorithm of all isn’t logic—it’s love.
