Nightfall

Neo-Moscow, 2077. A city of shimmering holographic illusions, where the Directorate controls not just information, but reality itself. They sculpt memories, feed personalized realities directly into the minds of the populace, a digital opiate for the masses. But in the rain-slicked alleys, a glitch in their system emerges.

Kiera Volkov, once the Directorate's deadliest weapon, code-named Nightfall, is now a ghost, haunted by fragmented memories of a past she can't grasp. The Directorate, sensing her dangerous potential, sends Rhys, her former partner and lover, to erase her. Rhys, his own mind a carefully constructed lie, remembers nothing of their shared past, only the mission to eliminate her.

Kiera's desperate search for her lost identity leads her to Anya Sharma, a brilliant neuroscientist consumed by guilt over her role in the Directorate’s mind control technology, and Jax, an information broker trafficking in forbidden truths. Together, they offer Kiera a perilous path back to her memories, a journey that could shatter the Directorate's fabricated reality.

As Kiera delves deeper, fragments of a mission gone wrong, a shattering betrayal, and a clandestine program known as Chrysalis begin to resurface. Chrysalis is more than memory manipulation; it’s the Directorate’s plan to rewrite history itself, ensuring their eternal control.

Rhys, plagued by increasingly vivid glimpses of a love he shouldn’t remember, begins to question his mission, his pursuit of Kiera becoming a desperate dance between duty and a burgeoning sense of self. He's trapped between the lies he's been told and the truth that whispers in the corrupted data streams.

Kiera finds refuge with the Ghostwalkers, a hidden network of dissidents, those who, like her, experience flickers of truth beneath the Directorate's lies. Together, they represent a spark of rebellion in a city drowning in fabricated realities.

Anya develops a risky procedure to restore Kiera's memories, a race against time as the Directorate closes in. The procedure could shatter Kiera’s mind, but it’s the only hope of exposing Chrysalis and the Directorate’s ultimate plan.

In the heart of the Directorate’s obsidian headquarters, Kiera, armed with the devastating truth and the strength of her reclaimed identity, faces Rhys, now torn between his programming and the resurfacing echoes of their shared past. Their battle is a clash of wills, a fight for memory, identity, and the future of humanity itself. As the city erupts in chaos and the Directorate's control crumbles, Kiera must make a final, desperate choice. Will she break free from the past or become another ghost in the machine?

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E-kirja: 13. marraskuuta 2024