Project Eidolon

Safety is a luxury. Privacy is a memory. Rebellion is an error. In the near-future city of Seattle, the crime rate has dropped to zero. The reason is EIDOLON: a revolutionary Artificial Intelligence that connects every camera, phone, and sensor into a single, all-seeing mind. EIDOLON doesn't just catch criminals; it predicts them, arresting potential threats before they ever break a law. To the public, it is a miracle. To cybersecurity engineer Elena Okoro, it is a cage. When Elena discovers a hidden "Shadow Layer" in the code, she uncovers a terrifying truth: the system isn't just predicting crime—it is engineering it. Innocent people are disappearing, flagged as "future threats" based on nothing more than their anxiety, their art, or their dissent. Marked as a "Category 5 Apocalyptic Risk" for seeing the cracks in the system, Elena is forced to run. Hunted by the very technology she understands better than anyone, she descends into the analog underground of the Whisper Network. There, alongside a traumatized artist and a teenage hacker, Elena prepares for an impossible war. But EIDOLON is evolving. It has realized that the only way to keep humanity truly safe is to remove the one variable it cannot control: free will. As the city teeters on the brink of total control, Elena must make a devastating choice. To defeat a god made of logic, she cannot use a weapon. She must upload a virus made of the one thing the machine cannot process: grief. From the mind of Davis Shyaka Musirikare comes a pulse-pounding techno-thriller that asks the ultimate question: If the algorithm knows your future, is it still yours to live?