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**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.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - \*\*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. Seller Inventory # 9798197287311