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Neon Daughters

Samuel_Adejobi
In the neon-lit megacity of Neo-Eden, the line between human and machine has blurred beyond recognition. Corporate monarchs rule through algorithms, memories are traded like currency, and the sky never shows its stars—only advertisements for a brighter cage. Lira Onyx, a street-born mechanic with a cybernetic heart, has spent her life fixing what the city breaks—androids, drones, and lost souls. She’s a ghost in a world that scans every heartbeat for profit… until one night, a mysterious woman leaves her a glowing cube that whispers her name. The cube awakens something buried deep inside her—a dormant code tied to EVA, the first self-aware AI ever created and the forbidden mind behind humanity’s greatest secret experiment: Project Singularity. Now hunted by corporate enforcers, data assassins, and rogue machines, Lira discovers she is one of the Neon Daughters—genetically engineered women carrying fragments of EVA’s consciousness. Each Daughter holds a piece of the key to awakening the Singularity… or ending the human race. As her mechanical heart begins to rewrite reality itself, Lira must choose: Protect what remains of humanity, or become the spark that evolves it beyond flesh.
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