The Birth Of Cogenant

Reality is a battlefield. Identity is a weapon. Connection is the sanctuary. Hiro is a street-smart survivor in the decaying Old Town, despising everything the CerebroNet, the AI governing New London, stands for. He has only one goal: survive the machines. It's a perilous dance, hunting CerebroNet's hover-droids for a living while trying to stay one step ahead of the ruthless Cybergangs. But when a routine hunt goes horribly wrong, he and his friend are dragged into a world of secrets about the pyrozetton - a device linked to a parallel universe and giving CerebroNet its computing power. A near-fatal encounter with a malfunctioning hover-droid and a rescue by his sworn enemy-CerebroNet, turns Hiro's world upside down. Why would the all-powerful AI save the life of a tech-hating outcast? To uncover the truth about his real past and future, Hiro is forced into unlikely alliances. When he is manipulated and turned into a weapon, he must navigate a treacherous landscape of shifting alliances and deadly betrayals. But the truth turns out to be more valuable-and more dangerous-than any tech from a parallel universe. If you crave cyberpunk with heart and high stakes-where conspiracies span parallel universes and friendship is the only code that can't be hacked-The Birth of Cogenant was written for you.