17 parts Ongoing MatureIn 2090, what makes you different defines your worth and deepens the divide. As the Hyperverse collides with the temporal world, the question isn't what world is better. It's who gets to choose.
In a world divided by genetic privilege and nefarious promises of digital immortality, Emerald: The Reset (62,908 words) is a YA science fiction novel about resistance, identity, and the cost of rewriting humanity.
Emerald, a brilliant 19-year-old geneticist at Reborn Technology, believes she's helping families give their children a fighting chance in an unequal world. But behind the promise of DNA upgrades lies a deeper system-one designed to control life from the moment of birth.
Reborn's genetic resequencing program is just the beginning. The next phase, known as The Reset, offers a digital afterlife to the elite-and programmed compliance with defined purpose to everyone else. When Emerald and her twin are recruited by biotech visionary Blaze Arson and billionaire Jack Reese to join the future they're building, she realizes the Reset isn't theory. It's already live.
Everything shifts when her team uncovers a Cryo-Vaulted Exodus vessel hidden deep within a mountain cave, housing thousands of cryo-preserved beings from a forgotten interdimensional migration. One of them is a girl who looks exactly like Emerald, not a clone, but a twin. A living key to a civilization buried by design.
As their minds reconnect, the sisters uncover a shadow alliance behind the Reset-an engineered system that promises immortality by subscription and reshapes the human species to serve it. As rebellion sparks and illusions collapse, Emerald must choose whether to dismantle the very system she helped build... before it decides who gets to live free, and who gets to live forever.