Book One of the Ashfall Protocol Series By Jim Marsh
Rebellion was never optional. Survival was never guaranteed.
In a galaxy ruled by the Overlords—technocratic tyrants who rewrite minds as easily as code—a rogue space pilot becomes the last hope for those the system has erased.
Ash Velari didn’t ask to be a hero. She didn’t ask to wake a man with no past and a face outlawed by the regime. But when a routine op turns into a mission gone nuclear, Ash and her mysterious passenger—Jex—find themselves hunted by every sensor and syndicate in known space.
Jex was built for control. Raised in the Talorik Protocol. But his memories are fractured, his programming unstable, and something deep inside him is waking up... something the Overlords buried for a reason.
Together, they’ll cross quarantined zones, defy AI overlords, and hack into the mind of a dying empire—because what Jex remembers could burn it all down.
Clones. Code. Conspiracy. The revolution begins with a single corrupted directive.