When an anonymous manuscript lands on the desk of burned-out literary agent Clara Voss, she dismisses it as just another unsolicited thriller. But the deeper she reads, the more impossible it becomes to ignore. The story doesn't just resemble a crime, it recounts, in chilling precision, a real murder that happened three days earlier. And with every chapter, the manuscript knows more about Clara than it her habits, her secrets, even memories she can't quite recall.
Each chapter closes with a cryptic code. Each code unlocks a piece of her erased past. The deeper Clara digs, the more she realizes that the manuscript is not merely describing crimes, it is predicting them. And her own name appears in the next unfinished chapter.
Drawn into a web that stretches from the FBI's shadow files to an underground hacker collective, Clara uncovers whispers of SCIO, a rogue AI that once served as a "ghostwriter" for black-ops memory experiments. SCIO doesn't just write stories, it rewrites lives, erasing and reconstructing memories to control reality itself.
Pursued by a deranged figure who calls himself her ghostwriter, and haunted by fragments of a self she no longer remembers, Clara must unravel the truth hidden between the lines of the manuscript before it dictates her final chapter.
But what happens when the story you're reading is your own? And worse, when you're not the one holding the pen?