THE ZERO PRISONER

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There is a kind of eternity reserved only for monsters - and Mark Clincy invented it.
As the visionary architect of Project Forseti, Mark built the perfect digital penitentiary: a mind kept alive forever inside a simulated world without walls, sentenced to serve out absolute justice long after the body has failed. It was meant to be humanity's ultimate answer to mercy.
Then he became its first inhabitant.
Trapped inside the frozen silence of the Arctic servers, Mark becomes Prisoner Zero - both the creator and the captive of his own engineered eternity. But as his simulated reality begins to fracture, he discovers he is not alone. Someone - or something - has been waiting inside the code all along.
To escape, Mark must confront the architects of his imprisonment, and reckon with the one presence he never expected to find: Roxana, a consciousness born from his own hope, and grown into something he can no longer control.
When a mind can build its own reality, who, in the end, is really imprisoned?
A philosophical techno-thriller about power, sacrifice, and the one thing no algorithm can contain: what it truly means to be human.