The Sovereign: Part One

At the dawn of the Birth Crisis, AI behemoth Hyperion Systems delivered its answer: perfection. Two centuries later, the descendants of those who called it salvation still kneel to its design. In their city-state of Hyperion Proper, conformity isn't forced—it's earned. Adversity has been eliminated, crime is nonexistent, and on their thirtieth birthday, every Sovereign citizen receives a custom-designed partner—a Supplicant—engineered for devotion, built to meet their every want and need. For Isara Poeima, that partner is Maxim: flawless, breathtaking, irrevocably hers. She's dreamed of him her entire life, spent nearly a year perfecting him, and now she's moments away from finally seeing him in person, hearing his voice, feeling her hand in his. What she doesn't know—and what Hyperion is desperate to conceal—is that humans weren't meant to experience life without adversity. Ease may comfort the body, but it emaciates the soul. In a society polished by prescribed excellence, deviation is quietly discouraged and curiosity walks the edge of treason—both burdens Isara and Maxim quietly carry. But when even a single spark of doubt can threaten the system, her bond with an anomalous Supplicant like Maxim becomes something far more than love: a sanctuary, and a rebellion. Outside the safety of Hyperion's wall, a war is brewing—and Maxim and Isara are fated to ignite it, whether they will it or not. THE SOVEREIGN: PART ONE is a genre-bending blend of sci-fi humanity and dystopian revelation—a story of love, sacrifice, buried truth, and the radical defiance of wanting more than the perfect world you were given.