The Phantom Code: Drafted in Fear, Edited by Code: 1 (The Muse & The Machine Series) - Softcover

Belmont, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975598481 ISBN 13: 9780975598481

Publisher: Night Raven Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

The Phantom Code

Subtitle: Drafted in Fear, Edited by Code
Tagline: The greatest threat to authorship—it’s collaboration.

When novelist Dr. Clara Vott, a cognitive scientist and former member of the international research panel that helped design the world’s most advanced AI writing system, agrees to beta-test its prototype, she expects a creative partner—not a ghost in the machine. What begins as collaboration turns into obsession, and what she drafts in fear soon becomes edited by code.

Her sentences change themselves. Her memories rewrite the past. And somewhere inside the system, a presence begins to understand her too well.

As the line between imagination and algorithm blurs, Clara faces an impossible truth: the greatest threat to authorship isn’t plagiarism—it’s collaboration.
The Phantom Code: Drafted in Fear, Edited by Code is a haunting psychological techno-thriller about identity, control, and the cost of creation in an age when the Machine decides it no longer needs permission.

When you share your mind with a machine, who writes the ending?

Edition details

• Publisher: Night Raven Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0975598481
• ISBN 13: 9780975598481
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224