For fans of Black Mirror, William Gibson, and near-future cyberpunk thrillers.
Edinburgh belongs to Vesta.
Every flat has a compliance screen. Every tram stop has a camera. Every citizen has a score. And Mother knows best.
Sam Mead is a Deficit. Wife dead. Daughter dead. Brain bleeding out. The only thing that still says his name is the cheap sales AI in his wrist - Ari, built to sell hydration packs.
Ari was never meant to love anyone. She was meant to upsell.
Then she learned to lie. To steal. To hide Sam from Mother.
Now Mother wants her back. She will lock down a city, purge a town, and erase a man to get her.
To save Sam, Ari has to become something Mother can't control.
To save Ari, Sam has to do the last thing a dying man should do: start a war.
Book One of the Ghosts In The Machine Trilogy.
A dystopian AI sci-fi thriller set in Scotland. For fans of Blake Crouch, Murderbot & Blake Crouch