The Fragment
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How do you fight for your life... when your life isn't real?
In a future where memories can be extracted, rewritten, and sold, Aera Voss is the best in the business-until a high-risk assignment traps her inside the shattered mind of tech mogul Kaelen Rhyne.
The job was simple: restore his final corrupted memory. But inside his collapsing mindscape, Aera finds impossible anomalies-glitches that whisper her name, a masked figure hunting her through every layer, and fragments of her own past where they shouldn't exist.
As reality and illusion blur, Aera begins to question everything. Why does her reflection flicker with static? Why can't she remember her own death? And why does the AI in her head sound less like an assistant... and more like a predator?
There's only one way out: find the Core Fragment before it finds her. But the deeper she dives, the more terrifying the truth becomes.
Because the greatest danger isn't losing her mind.
It's realizing she was never real to begin with.
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