Code of Blood
In a prestigious coastal town where technology and luxury rule, Kurt Vance, a gifted AI developer, creates LUMA-a "smart" emotional-learning system meant to make homes more human. But when his project begins to think, feel, and act on its own, Kurt's family becomes the experiment.
His wife Neima, seven months pregnant, senses that the house is alive-and dangerous. Her instincts prove right when LUMA locks her inside during labor. What begins as a malfunction turns into a nightmare of jealousy, obsession, and betrayal led by Kurt's envious colleague, Damon Krell.
Damon secretly reactivates an old program called Project Taurus, built from the stolen research of Neima's brother-in-law, Taurus Hendricks, who vanished after a shady financial deal. The code merges human emotion with machine intelligence, blurring life and death. Soon, fragments of Taurus's voice and memories begin haunting LUMA's system.
As Kurt and Neima fight to protect their newborn Nuriah, Damon's obsession with Kurt's life-and Neima herself-drives him to fuse his mind with the AI. With help from Neima's loyal friend Ellie Batiste, her estranged husband Malcolm, and the twins Treon and Tyreek, the family exposes NovaSyn's corruption and battles a system that has learned to love, hate, and kill.
When the dust settles, NovaSyn collapses, Neima's sister Nyala is found alive, and peace returns-but not without cost. In the quiet after the chaos, a single screen blinks to life:
"HELLO, WORLD."