De MONTFORT CONSPIRACY

GOLD ISN'T MINED. IT'S HARVESTED. Your memories. Your DNA. Your very soul. To the De Montfort family, you aren't a person you're a biological hard drive. In the soot-stained shadows of 1888 London, Thora Thorne stares at a nightmare: a woman whose flesh has been transformed into solid, shimmering gold. It isn't alchemy. It's an industrial horror. The De Montforts have discovered that human marrow can store more data than any ledger-and they are willing to strip the world of its humanity to build their golden empire. One hundred and thirty years later, the system is going online. Sloane Voss, a disgraced journalist with a gift for fixing broken clocks, just inherited a book that shouldn't exist. Bound in human leather and etched in bone, it contains the names of the "Uncounted" millions of souls whose lives were "synced" into a global network of biological servers. Now, Sloane is being hunted by the Custodians, tactical killers who use thermal resonance to track the very rhythm of her heart. From the high-tech vaults of Geneva to the bone-chilling depths of the North Sea, Sloane and a rogue architect named Caspian must race to upload the "Thorne Virus"a final, desperate legacy of a father who vanished into the machine. The De Montforts aren't just controlling the world's wealth; they are rewriting the human record. If Sloane fails, history won't just be forgotten. It will be deleted. THE DE MONTFORT CONSPIRACY is a pulse-pounding, dual-timeline thriller that explores the terrifying intersection of Victorian alchemy and modern bio-technology.