Rewired and Reckless

In the year 2121, the world is no longer ruled by humans alone. Pollution has turned the skies gray, the air toxic, and survival into something that can be manufactured. The answer? Cybernetic augmentation. If you want to live, you give up your humanity—one part at a time. But Skye Zanders never wanted to be a cyborg. For five years, she’s been running—stealing, fighting, surviving—hiding in the shadows of a city that no longer belongs to people like her. She wears stolen cybernetic parts to blend in, her only companion a mischievous monkey named Tracy and the ghosts of a past she can’t quite remember. Her mother—once a brilliant scientist—is dead. Her father, missing. And the people hunting her? They want to finish what her mother started. Then she meets Zander Daelin, an ex-soldier with his own reasons for staying off the radar. Against her better judgment, she lets him in. Trusts him. And for the first time in years, she’s not alone. But when a hidden part of Skye’s past resurfaces—a mission, a war, a truth buried beneath cybernetic lies—she realizes she’s more than just a fugitive. She’s the last piece of a dangerous puzzle. And now, with a city on the brink of collapse, a war she never wanted, and an unexpected life growing inside her, Skye will have to decide: Will she keep running? Or will she fight for a future only she can stop from being rewritten?