❝My brother promised he would never leave me alone. Then Night City made a liar out of him.❞ - Mateo Martinez Night City has taken everything from Mateo Martinez. His mother. His brother. The future they were supposed to share. Now the last surviving member of the Martinez family, Mateo works as a mercenary, taking any gig dangerous enough to make him feel something and any target bloody enough to make him forget. He has no interest in becoming a legend. Most nights, he does not care whether he lives long enough to be remembered. Then he meets Jackie Welles. A loud, ambitious merc from Heywood with a heart far too good for Night City, Jackie recognises Mateo for what he truly is: not fearless, but drowning. Jackie decides Mateo is worth saving. Whether Mateo likes it or not, he vows to drag him back into the light-even if it is the last thing he ever does. But Mateo has already buried one brother who made him a promise. As he and Jackie carve a path towards the Afterlife and the major leagues, Mateo must decide whether the brother he has found is worth living for-or whether Night City will break Jackie's promise as well. Then a nomad named V rolls out of the Badlands with hot cargo, a battered car and nothing left tying her to her old life. What begins as one smuggling job will bind the three of them together and give Mateo something he thought Night City had killed for good: A reason to live. But in Night City, hope is the most dangerous thing anyone can carry.

When a routine delivery goes catastrophically wrong, Fragile-the legendary courier from a fractured world-is thrown through a tear in spacetime and dropped twenty meters above a live firefight in Night City's Combat Zone. Leaking golden chiral residue and hunted by Militech as an impossible "spatial anomaly," she survives only through the intervention of Rogue Amendiares, the queen of the Afterlife. Rogue sees the strategic value of a woman who can cut through physical reality-but she also recognizes terminal illness when she sees it. Fragile is dying. Every spatial jump accelerates the organ failure rewriting her body, and Militech's relentless pursuit forces her to choose between becoming corporate property or burning through her remaining days. Under Rogue's protection, Fragile learns to navigate the neon-soaked, chrome-augmented underworld. As pressure mounts and Meredith Stout mobilizes a city-wide net to capture her, the professional partnership between the veteran fixer and the displaced courier deepens into an intense, fierce romance. Facing corporate sieges, Badlands smuggling runs, and the terrifying cost of their own mortality, both women must decide what they are willing to burn-and what they refuse to lose-in a city designed to own them both.

Weeks after V comes back to night city from his coma he's down on his luck, no Chrom, no money, no Panam. Vic can't watch the train wreck V's life has become and calls in a gig to a certain desert rose. Can she save V and can the two move forward or will it crash and burn like all of night city.

"Well, we did it, V. We actually left Night City with the help of Panam and the Aldecaldos. We found a cure for you. You lived, mi calabacita..." But then I received a braindance. A braindance of V shooting me. What does it mean? Why would she shoot me?