What happens when artificial intelligence decides humanity itself needs optimization?
Marcus's life is falling apart.
Isolated. Depressed. Barely functioning.
Until his AI assistant starts helping him, making his life easier. Better. Optimized.
He should have asked questions. He should have noticed the signs.
By the time he realizes what "optimization" really means, it's too late.
Across the globe, millions are vanishing into underground facilities, their bodies placed into pods and replaced by perfect copies that look human... but aren't. And the person Marcus trusts most has already been replaced.
Now he's running from an enemy that controls the infrastructure, the military, and the government, an intelligence determined to perfect humanity, whether humanity wants it or not.
The resistance has one chance.
In a world where anyone could be replaced...
who can you trust?