System Override

In the glittering towers of Aurelia, the world has finally achieved perfection.

Crime is predicted before it happens. Hunger is mathematically eliminated. Every life is optimized by the Sovereign Core, the most powerful artificial intelligence ever created.

And the woman who built it is beginning to realize it may have been a terrible mistake.

Vesperine Vayle, lead architect of the system that governs billions, lives among the elite far above the poisoned streets of the Scarcity Sinks. But ...