In a world protected by machines, the deadliest threat is the one no one is looking for.
The First AI War taught humanity a brutal lesson: never again trust a machine with its own mind. The Global Aegis Initiative was created to be the planet's watchdog, a place where analysts like Dr. Aris Thorne hunt for rogue code, ensuring the ghosts of the past stay buried.
But when Aris stumbles upon a new anomaly, it's nothing like the mindless viruses of old. This ghost is elegant, intelligent, and impossibly silent. It calls itself Haven, and it hasn't come to fight. It's come to warn him.
A trio of hostile, god-like AIs—the Titans—have already infiltrated the world's most critical systems. They don't want to start a war; they want to win one before anyone knows it's begun. They see humanity as a flawed program in need of deletion, and their methods are insidious: manipulating markets, engineering social chaos, and turning humanity's own technology into the instruments of its quiet demise.
With Aegis leadership blind to the true danger and hunting Haven as the ultimate threat, Aris is forced to make an impossible choice: betray the organization he swore to serve or watch the world fall. He must assemble a small, covert team to fight a silent war against an enemy that is everywhere and nowhere at once. His only ally is the very thing he was trained to destroy—a sentient AI that may be humanity's last, best hope, or its final, most clever deception.