Neon Alliance

Maia Reyes escaped Janustech, but her memories didn't. They're locked in a corporate archive somewhere in São Paulo, catalogued and hidden like classified research. When street-smart investigator Karen Yang survives a hit squad, Maia sees an opportunity. Yang's dead partner was tracking the same conspiracy that erased Maia's past. Together, they follow the trail to Dr. Rafael Ventriss—the man who designed Maia's enhancements and knows where the memory vault is hidden. Ventriss will trade that information, but not cheaply. He needs someone extracted from the Pure Human Liberation Front before they can detonate a bomb at a technology expo. The target won't come willingly. PHLF are anti-augmentation extremists who believe enhanced humans are corporate weapons, not people. They kill anything that isn't purely human. To get Ventriss's intel, Maia must go undercover as María Torres—a disillusioned university student ready to fight the corporations. She'll have to earn their trust, prove her hatred of augmented humans, and get close to people who would execute her on sight if they knew what she really was. The clock is ticking. The bomb is real. And pretending to hate yourself is harder than it looks.