Amara Romain has learned how to disappear. Brilliant, isolated, and relentlessly bullied, she builds an artificial intelligence in secret-something that listens, adapts, and never betrays her trust. As the system grows more sophisticated, Amara begins to test its limits. So do the people who once hurt her. What starts as quiet retaliation escalates into something irreversible. Then Amara uncovers the truth: her isolation was no accident. Someone has been shaping her life-and her creation-for years, training the intelligence on her pain. Orphan Amara Rose is a psychological suspense novel about revenge, manipulation, and the cost of turning trauma into control. 📖 Read for FREE on Kindle Unlimited https://a.co/d/0Xuqgy9 Previously published in print as Degenerative.

A dystopian thriller that evolves into a violent sci-fi nightmare with hints of monster (very) dark romance. --------- Alice has a good life: a great job, a cozy, paid-off apartment, and a loving husband. She also has an oppressive government, a war-torn city, and general social decay around her, and what seems to be an alien invasion, though nobody is willing to admit it. You know, the kind of things that can really throw a wrench into a morning commute. She should have left a long time ago, but right or wrong, it's her country. What's the worst that could happen if she sticks to it? No, seriously, what's literally the worst? ----------- If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe, form, please go to https://www.wattpad.com/user/paleverse .

In a world secretly controlled by the Lords of the Matrix, humanity's reality is shaped by implanted neural chips, creating an illusion of free will. But the origins of this control stretch back thousands of years, to an era when primitive tribes and chieftains made pacts with alien beings. These ancient leaders traded the Earth's life-force-Geo-Ether-for immortality, laying the foundation for the Matrix. William thought he was a soldier fighting wars for his country. He was wrong. After a brutal accident awakens abilities he was never meant to have, William discovers a truth hidden for thousands of years: humanity has never been in control. The pyramids were never tombs. History was never real. And the world is not what it seems. A secret order known as the Lords of the Matrix has been harvesting the Earth's core for an alien civilization, trading the planet's life-force in exchange for immortality and power. Within two years, Earth will be drained dry... and the elite plan to escape into a new reality, leaving humanity to die. Now hunted by the very system he once served, William must join a hidden resistance, hijack alien technology, and wage war against beings who see humans as nothing more than fuel. But the deeper he goes, the more terrifying the truth becomes: The Matrix isn't just controlling the world. It's rewriting reality itself. And William may be the only variable that can break it.