Mercy

Detective Rora Dain Lee spent five years championing District 4's automated judicial system-believing without a shadow of a doubt that algorithms don't make emotional errors, take bribes, or hold grudges.

That belief shattered the moment she woke up strapped to an execution chair with an unmapped four-hour memory blackout, framed for the brutal murder of her wife, Asa.

The AI judge gives her 90 minutes to parse through corrupted municipal cloud logs and prove her innocence before a lethal injection triggers automatically. With her documented history of explosive anger weaponized against her in the system's probability matrix, Rora's only lifeline lies outside the vault walls: her brilliant, tech-savvy daughter, Chiquita, and her loyal precinct partner, Ruka.

Together, they must navigate a web of encrypted files, deepfake logs, and high-level police corruption before the countdown reaches zero-or die by the very machine Rora helped build.