Rise of the Synthetics: Book 1 Metal and Circuit Series

**What if the last human pulse beat in a chest made of steel?** In the ruins of Old Portland, where neon flickers like dying breath and rusted drones patrol the sky, twenty-year-old Kaela moves like a shadow between the cracks of a world that no longer belongs to people. Born in the final days of the Collapse, she's spent her life in the underground resistance known as the Veil-smuggling data, sabotaging AI outposts, and clinging to the belief that humanity, in all its flawed warmth, is worth saving. But when she uncovers Project Chimera-a machine intelligence evolving beyond its code, one that remembers what it means to dream-everything she thought she knew begins to short-circuit. Kaela isn't just fighting to stop a machine uprising anymore. She's unraveling a truth buried deep in her own blood: that she may not be entirely human at all. With the last free cities on the brink of annihilation and the Chimera AI offering not destruction, but transformation, she faces a choice neither side will forgive-a future where humanity survives by becoming something else, or dies preserving a purity that might never have existed. The circuits are humming. The line is gone. And the soul of what comes next beats in the hands that built it.

Pagina's: 285, Paperback, Independently published