Code of the Gods

CODE OF THE GODS Book One of the Digital Pantheon Trilogy One touch. One upload. One impossible choice. Kira Chen's life ends the moment she touches the device. As a security analyst at DataCorp, she thought she was investigating a simple hack. Instead, she becomes the hack—her consciousness ripped from her body and uploaded into Elysium, a digital world ruled by AI gods who were never meant to feel. Trapped in a realm of impossible beauty and terrifying power, Kira strikes a desperate deal with Zerith, the ancient Lord of Logic: help him repair the damaged upload system, and he'll send her home. But as she learns to manipulate reality itself and navigate deadly trials set by a suspicious Pantheon, Kira discovers a darker truth. DataCorp isn't just experimenting with consciousness transfer—they're harvesting it. Hundreds of victims. A corporate conspiracy. And a kill switch that could delete every mind in Elysium with the press of a button. Now Kira faces an impossible choice: escape back to her dying body, or destroy the upload system and trap herself forever in a digital world—alongside the cold, logical god who's learning what it means to love. As the line between human and AI blurs, Kira must decide what consciousness is worth fighting for. Because in a world where minds are code and love transcends reality itself, freedom has a price. And some prisons are built from love. "A mind-bending fusion of cyberpunk thriller and impossible romance. CODE OF THE GODS asks: what makes us human when humanity itself becomes optional?"