Under the unblinking gaze of the Dome City’s omnipotent Overseer, survival is a currency paid in secrets and silence. Lin Mei, a ghost in the machine and a hacker-for-hire, survives by cracking firewalls and trading data in the neon-drenched underworld of the Glitch. But when she stumbles upon Project Chimera—a clandestine genetic engineering program crafting super-soldiers from human DNA—she becomes a target of the very system she once exploited.

Haunted by coded whispers and hunted by Compliance Enforcers, Lin Mei solicits the help of the hidden resistance. Together, they ignite a digital insurgency, broadcasting the Overseer’s atrocities to a populace numbed by propaganda. But trust is a rare glitch in this world: allies wear masks, truth is a weapon, and the Overseer’s retaliation is swift and merciless.