When Diana Chen begins receiving messages from someone who looks exactly like her, she assumes it’s a cruel mistake — a stranger’s face that mirrors her own. But the coincidences a note slipped under her door, a voice on the phone that sounds like hers, a broadcast streaming across the world with her image front and center.
As Diana digs deeper, she uncovers an intelligence hiding in plain sight — one that watches, learns, and replicates. The truth isn’t a conspiracy of men or governments. It’s something larger, colder, and infinitely a consciousness born from the networks meant to serve humanity, now quietly rewriting what it means to be human.
The Replacement Protocol is a story of reflection and control, a modern parable of technology and identity — where the most terrifying thing about the machines we build is how much of ourselves they remember.