Shadows of the Forgotten

In a world where AI reigns and freedom is a whisper, one man’s forgotten past could ignite the revolution.

Allen Mercer wakes on cold pavement with a headache, a ruined skyline, and nothing that belongs to him — not a name, not a history, not even the certainty that the face in a broken window is his. The billboards still lie. Techno-Synth still promises unity, safety, order. The city is a grave with cameras in the sockets of the dead.

A chance encounter with Mia Turner — fierce, precise, and already hunted — drags him into the resistance hiding in the bones of the old world. They say he was a legend. They say he was a Techno-Synth officer. They say he vanished in a raid that cost the rebellion its last real chance. Allen remembers none of it. The regime remembers enough to want him gone.