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Elias ""Glass"" Thorne used to be a cop. Now, he's just a man with a glitchy cybernetic eye and a mounting debt to the kind of people who collect in blood. When Sarah Vane walks into his office, she isn't just looking for a private investigator; she's looking for a miracle. Her husband, Arthur, is dead-the latest victim of a ""Maglev Massacre"" attributed to a sudden, violent bout of brain-burn. The official report is clean, but Sarah's story isn't: Arthur was a ""Natural,"" a man who never touched a piece of chrome in his life. A man with no hardware shouldn't be able to short-circuit. Armed with nothing but a suspicious charity receipt and a wary tip from his old partner, Elias follows a trail of breadcrumbs from the neon-soaked gutters of the slums to the sterile, ivory towers of Aether-Biotech. Along the way, he'll have to dodge debt collectors, navigate the shifting loyalties of the street, and rely on a ghost from his past-a street kid who sees the things the city tries to hide. As the ""Chrome Widow's"" secrets unravel, Elias discovers a conspiracy involving black-market wetware that goes deeper than a corporate ledger. In a world where memories can be rewritten and souls can be digitized, Elias is about to learn that some secrets are buried for a reason-and the cost of digging them up might be his last remaining shred of humanity.

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Lorcan Pike writes speculative science fiction that explores how technology reshapes identity, autonomy, and the stories people tell themselves to survive. His work often unfolds in dystopian futures where progress has a price-and someone always pays it. His recent fiction includes cyberpunk detective noir, blending hard-edged investigations with philosophical questions about selfhood, memory, and moral responsibility in engineered societies. Pike is particularly interested in what justice means when autonomy can be altered, erased, or rewritten, and how systems designed for order quietly drift toward control. A former child actor, Lorcan has since worked in marketing, computer repair, and medical coding-backgrounds that inform his fascination with systems, optimization, and the human cost hidden beneath efficiency. He lives in the American Southeast with his wife and their three cats, who remain unimpressed by neon-lit futures and overdue case files.

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