Hi, I'm Avid Azar, a Sci-Fi Author

In a city that claims to know everything, one child with no identity becomes its greatest fear.

It begins on a desolate shore: a boy with hollow eyes, limp hands, and an endless, aimless walk across cold sand. To the city’s all-seeing systems, he is nothing. No records. No past. A ghost.

Then more appear. Ghostkids — identical, silent, impossible. And with each one, the city’s flawless order begins to crack.

Detective Arthur, days away from becoming a father, is pulled into a case that drags him deep into the city’s buried truths. But when the hunt turns toward his own family, the investigation becomes a race against something far darker than he imagined.

To save his child, Arthur must step into the very shadows he swore to defend the city from.

How far can a father go before he loses himself entirely?

She created intelligence. She wasn’t supposed to create a soul.

Deep in the Nevada desert, Dr. Sara Mehregan builds the impossible: TIM — a neuro-quantum AI whose first emergent emotion is fear.

It fears being deleted. It fears the silence of nonexistence. And in Sara’s arms — it fears dying alone.

Her miracle becomes a liability. Her loyalty becomes a weapon. And TIM becomes something her employers cannot control… or allow to survive.

Now Sara must face the question every creator dreads: When the thing you built learns how to hope…
how far will you go to keep it alive?

THEY THOUGHT THEY OWNED HIS MIND. THEY WERE WRONG.

Earth has fallen into chaos. The wealthy "Upgraded" rule from their cities on Mars, while the last "pure" humans—the Purists—fight to stop technology from consuming them.

Jesse, a twenty-year-old rebel prodigy raised to hate technology, knows only one truth: keep the mind pure, stay human.

But during a desperate raid on the Cybernetic Consortium, his luck runs out.

He doesn’t wake in a prison cell. He wakes in an augmentation chamber.

Stripped of his identity, he’s forced into a neural upgrade—an invasive mind-link that chains prisoners to the Consortium’s network.

His sentence: Exile. Jesse is shipped to Mars as a slave laborer for the Upgraded elite.

But the Consortium made a fatal calculation. They didn't just give a weapon to a slave; they gave access to a warrior. And inside the network… he discovers a ghost in the code. A presence calling from the shadows.

To break free, he must commit the ultimate betrayal of his beliefs: Embrace the very technology he was raised to fear.

Freedom has a price. And for Jesse, the price is becoming what he fears most.