Protocol Zero

In a city fractured by technology, where cybernetic gods rule from shimmering sky-towers over the unaugmented masses below, a boy from the rust-stained depths holds a forbidden talent. He can feel the living heart of the digital world. His life is forever changed by a chance encounter with a powerful cyber-noble, an aristocrat whose immense power conceals a fatal flaw—a creeping decay that is slowly killing him. Their connection is a strange miracle, the only thing that can soothe the noble’s pain. To save the man he’s come to love, he must plunge into a world of corporate war and lethal secrets, rising from a code scavenger to a master hacker. He will unravel a conspiracy that leads to a lost protocol, a secret that could save one life or redefine all of humanity.