The Code We Write In Fire

A Sci-FI Dystopian Thriller about AI governance, emotional suppression and the guilt of the women who built the system.

In Serenith, eleven million people live in engineered peace. No panic. No riots. No grief spirals. The system works.

Lira Voss helped build it.

Then three lines of poetry appear inside the city’s code — lines the deletion system tried to erase seventeen times and failed. Lira recognizes the meter before she admits she recognizes the voice.

Elian Rane was supposed to be gone.

Instead, he has been awake inside the system for seven years, used as infrastructure by the very city Lira believed she was saving.

Now Lira is a fugitive hunted by the protocols she wrote, forced to join a rogue diagnostician, an illegal empath, and a chaos engineer to break into the city’s most secure core and rescue the man she condemned.

For readers who love morally complex dystopias, AI governance, emotional suppression, forbidden poetry, found-family heists, and love stories written in regret and fire.