Neural Ghosts

A Dark Cyberpunk Romance

In New Avalon, memory is currency, surveillance is constant, and the rich have begun bargaining with death itself.
Kira Veyx makes her living diving stolen memories for the black market, extracting secrets from the dead before the city’s corporations can bury them. She expects contraband, account keys, maybe blackmail. Instead, one routine job reveals something impossible: a living consciousness hidden inside an encrypted shard.
Aeron Veil should be dead.
Officially, the heir to the most powerful dynasty in the city died five years ago. But the mind trapped inside Kira’s rig knows things only Aeron could know—about black sites, erased victims, and a secret program built to turn human identity into corporate property.
Within hours, Kira becomes the target of assassins, criminal brokers, and Veil security.
Her only chance of survival may be Ryker Sol, the dangerous former bodyguard who once belonged to the world hunting her. He should be her enemy. He may still be. But as Kira is dragged deeper into a conspiracy of memory crimes, engineered immortality, and dynastic control, the bond between hunter and fugitive begins to shift into something far more volatile.
And Aeron, brilliant, haunted, and trapped between personhood and machinery, is becoming impossible to leave behind.
As the city closes in, Kira must decide what can still be trusted in a world where memory can be altered, grief can be monetized, and even death belongs to the powerful.
Neural Ghosts is the first book in a dark cyberpunk romance trilogy filled with dangerous intimacy, memory hacking, political conspiracy, and a morally complex love triangle.