iPearl

By: Kelly, J. P.

IN THE RAIN-SOAKED GUTTER OF MANC-Z, SHE WAS REBUILT. NOW, SHE'S THE STORM.

Pearl died in the toxic embrace of the Irwell River-ambushed, mutilated, and discarded by Silas Rook's organ-harvesting Vipers. But death was a luxury Manchester couldn't afford her. Resurrected by a black-market cyber-surgeon with stolen tech and grim pragmatism, Pearl is reborn: a fusion of scarred flesh, durasteel, and a volatile cyber-eye pulsing with captured starlight. Her mission is simple-blood for blood, eye for eye.

Yet the augments that saved her life come with ghosts. The experimental arm? Spliced from Syndicate tech. The eye? A prison for something older and far more dangerous than she knows. As Pearl hunts Rook through Manc-Z's decaying towers and drowned docks, she draws the attention of Chimera-a shadowy corporation hell-bent on reclaiming their lost property. Because Pearl isn't just carrying vengeance in her bones. She's carrying the Pale Saint: a cosmic entity of unfathomable power, and the key to Chimera's darkest ambitions.

Trapped between vicious gangs, cold-blooded tech hunters, and the god screaming behind her eyes, Pearl must become more than a weapon. She must become the crucible where humanity and cosmic fury collide. Or burn out in the rain like everything else in this rotting city.

A GRITTY CYBERPUNK SAGA FUSED WITH MANCHESTER'S ICONIC SOUNDTRACK
Blending the visceral brutality of Altered Carbon with the rain-lashed soul of Blade Runner and the anarchic spirit of the Madchester scene, iPearl is a relentless odyssey of vengeance, transformation, and the ghosts we forge in metal and light.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FCBKBP9M
• ISBN13: 9798287062552
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"