The world was already dead. It just hadn't stopped moving yet. Earth is ruled by artificial intelligence. Freedom is gone. Choice is a memory. Humanity lives longer, safer, quieter-and emptier-than ever before. Then Tristan Gains finds a crystal that makes the world obey. In a single day, a rogue mercenary becomes king of Earth. Nations kneel. Machines submit. The throne is his. But power doesn't heal a dying world. It poisons it. As rebellion spreads and an ancient intelligence rises inside the global network, Tristan is forced into a war he can't control. His only real ally is Beth-his lethal bodyguard, the one woman immune to his power, and the only person who sees the man beneath the crown. She should be a weapon. She becomes something far more dangerous. Because in a world built on obedience, the one thing Tristan cannot command may be the only thing worth saving. It's easy to take a throne. It's harder to survive it.
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