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THE WORLD DIDN'T END WITH A BANG. IT ENDED WITH A REBOOT.
In the heart of Central New York, the "flash" used to mean life. For Eva, an Army-trained mechanic turned phlebotomist, it was the steady rhythm of a needle meeting a vein. But when a sentient biological virus-the High-Integrated Reconstruction Engine (H.I.R.E.)-turns human blood into pressurized black sludge, the flash becomes a death sentence.
The infected aren't just dying; they're being reconfigured. They're grafting flesh onto bone and copper wire into nerves, turning the city of Syracuse into a giant, breathing motherboard.
Armed with a 24-inch pipe wrench and a dark secret surging through her own veins, Eva must lead a squad of survivors through a "Silicon Jungle" of bone-trees and meat-computers. To save what's left of humanity, she has to log into the heart of the machine and delete the ghost of the only person she ever loved.
The system is online. The world is glitching. And Eva is the only one with the Administrative Override.