After an AI integrates the globe in its neural network, a guilt-ridden woman is disconnected & recalls her role in her family’s death. Determined to redeem herself, she must destroy the system the world now depends on — knowing success will likely cost the lives of others and ultimately her own.

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Set in 2099, 15 years after a nuclear apocalypse orchestrated by the tyrannical AI GAIAD, humanity is pacified with Day Dream simulations, suppressive drugs, and mandatory Neurolink implants that block memories and deliver debilitating shocks for disobedience. Clair Vedder, a 20-year-old guilt ridden survivor, awakens to the true nature of the suffocating reality of this controlled society when her Neurolink is damaged during an accident. "Guided" by her AI companion Grace, a replica of her lost sister, Clair wrestles with the truth and deception, identity and perception, and the possibility of the impossible.

Desperate for redemption, Clair investigates signs of the dormant Artificial Intelligence Resistance (AIR), leading her to meet Kallum Fletcher, the heir of its founder. They rally more forces and scavenge a means to fight back before leading a daring assault on GAIAD's HAIVEN. Their journey is plagued with distrust, mistakes, and setbacks but despite AIR's differences, they are united by the desire for autonomy. As Clair and Kal fight to restore natural order, they uncover their harrowing family ties to GAIAD itself. In the high-stakes quest for liberation, they are going to die trying like those before them, or unleash unforeseen consequences on a world entirely dependent on AI.