"The Haptic Kiss"

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In District 17, privacy is an obsolete concept. The Grid watches your movement, monitors your pulse, and dictates your reality. For Detective Silas Virek, life is a steady stream of green data and municipal compliance. He is a good cop. He follows the math. Until the math stops adding up. When a routine overdose case reveals a hidden crawlspace and a child’s crayon drawing, Silas pulls a thread that threatens to unravel the entire city. The victim, Anya Petrov, wasn't just murdered; she was harvested. Silas’s investigation leads him into the crosshairs of BioNex, a corporation turning the city's forgotten souls into "Hollows"—emotionless, programmable soldiers. Worse, the operation is being run by the one man Silas trusted most: his partner, Jace Renn. Framed, stripped of his badge, and forced off the Grid, Silas must navigate the toxic undercity with a ragtag team of outcasts: a rogue mercenary, a burnt-out netrunner, and Mira—a woman with whom he shares a forbidden, terrifying neural bond. To save the missing child and stop the harvest, Silas must break into the heart of BioNex. But the cost of the truth is high. Jace doesn’t just want to kill Silas; he wants to overwrite him. In a world where humanity is just another line of code, rebellion is the only glitch that matters.