Broken Circuitry
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Last published Mon, May 19, 2025
In a city powered by progress and controlled by surveillance, the line between hero and villain is razor-thin.
Ellis Mikaelson was a forgotten experiment-tortured, enhanced, and discarded by the very system that claimed to protect its people. Now reborn as Sin, a masked figure striking at the heart of Aurelia City's corrupt institutions, he's determined to expose the truth behind the façade of perfection... even if the world labels him a villain.
Samantha Vale-Nova-is the city's top enforcer, a cybernetically enhanced agent bred for justice and discipline. She's everything the people admire: strong, loyal, and unflinching in her mission to keep order. But when tasked with hunting down Sin, she finds herself locked in a cat-and-mouse game with a man whose motives challenge everything she's sworn to uphold.
As explosions light the skyline and hidden truths unravel, enemies collide in the shadows of a city built on lies. What begins as a fight for justice becomes a battle for identity-and the slow, dangerous pull of understanding between two people on opposite sides of the same war.
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