When Renee, a Syndicate assassin, is sent to a military cyberstorage unit to destroy a datadoll, she instead finds a fully cybernetic body with the memories of her lost sister. Together, they must confront the mysterious Syndicate that controls their lives, but can Renee trust this doll? Are things truly what they appear to be?

A group of friends including a netrunner, a fire graffiti artist, an aspiring rockerboy, and an autotechie set off for a fun photoshoot at a landfill, where among heaps of rubbish, scrap, and metal, they’ll find a shot to die for! Rumor has it the place is haunted, and they’re about to find out, in Night City, there are things far more frightening than ghosts.

Two years ago, Carmen Peyri reigned champion in Stellar Black, an underground trading ring and arena. Then one night, one mistake broke her, and she vanished. Now her dog, Tai, is dying—his Time Limit, his lifespan, slashed from eighty years to ten days. Rebuffed by the police, Carmen returns to the world she swore off, teaming up with Hesu, Stellar Black’s kingpin, and his enforcer, Beastly, to find out who did this. But the deeper they dig, the darker the truth becomes. Lies run deep. No one’s clean. And time is running out. DEAD LINE hurtles toward a violent climax in this intense cyberpunk thriller. Carmen has ten days... and no second chances.

If the world hadn’t already ended, Warren Smith would’ve become a serial killer. He was built for it cold, precise, methodical. Not driven by rage or trauma, but by a hunger for control. A creature of discipline and detachment. In the old world, he would’ve been studied. Hunted. Locked away. But the old world is long gone. Centuries ago, something broke, everything broke. Civilization collapsed under its own weight, swallowed by unchecked ambition, mass failure, and rot. The cities fell. The satellites died. People learned to fear silence because silence meant they’d been forgotten. And then, hundreds of years later, came the System. Sold as a cure. Marketed as salvation. A new architecture to stitch the ruins back together. Embedded in human minds through chips and fragments, it offered power, skills, survival. It promised to lift the desperate into something more than just broken survivors.