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#BD33A4: Byzantine
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Expected 10 Oct 26
In Star City, you’re either the predator or the paycheck. Nyx is somewhere in between.
Once a high-flying mercenary in the corporate towers of Midtown, Nyx is now a ghost of her former self, scraping by in the decaying slums of Goro and fighting a losing battle against an addiction to the drug X. But in a city built on debt and desperation, the past never stays buried.
When her younger brother, Eno, steals a priceless Byzantine neurodrive from Aurelius Stern—the ruthless "Archduke of Sin"—Nyx is handed a death sentence by association. To save her brother and clear a debt that’s already being collected in blood, Nyx must accept a suicide infiltrate Novira Plaza, the fortress-like headquarters of the Stern Enterprise, disguised as a high-level Russian emissary.
But the "Byzantine" is no ordinary piece of hardware. It’s a sentient, rogue AI designed to slip the world’s most secure firewalls. As corporate sabotage turns the city into a warzone and Russian ghost operatives descend from the smog-choked skies, Nyx is forced to make a choice that will stitch her soul to the machine.
#BD33A4 has corrupt megacorps, lethal debt collectors, rogue AIs, city-wide power plays—and one hell of a narrator.
Once a high-flying mercenary in the corporate towers of Midtown, Nyx is now a ghost of her former self, scraping by in the decaying slums of Goro and fighting a losing battle against an addiction to the drug X. But in a city built on debt and desperation, the past never stays buried.
When her younger brother, Eno, steals a priceless Byzantine neurodrive from Aurelius Stern—the ruthless "Archduke of Sin"—Nyx is handed a death sentence by association. To save her brother and clear a debt that’s already being collected in blood, Nyx must accept a suicide infiltrate Novira Plaza, the fortress-like headquarters of the Stern Enterprise, disguised as a high-level Russian emissary.
But the "Byzantine" is no ordinary piece of hardware. It’s a sentient, rogue AI designed to slip the world’s most secure firewalls. As corporate sabotage turns the city into a warzone and Russian ghost operatives descend from the smog-choked skies, Nyx is forced to make a choice that will stitch her soul to the machine.
#BD33A4 has corrupt megacorps, lethal debt collectors, rogue AIs, city-wide power plays—and one hell of a narrator.
Kindle Edition
Expected publication October 10, 2026
About the author
Lenore Nox
7 books13 followersLenore Nox has a broken internal dark-o-meter, and she has no intention of fixing it.
From the necrotic bone-reefs of the Under Realms to the blood-slicked alleys of Star City, her fiction explores the gritty reality of survival when hope is a luxury no one can afford. Her stories are for the readers who find humor in the macabre, beauty in the neglected, and hope within the hopeless.
An author of the grimdark, the erotic, and the morally grey.
From the necrotic bone-reefs of the Under Realms to the blood-slicked alleys of Star City, her fiction explores the gritty reality of survival when hope is a luxury no one can afford. Her stories are for the readers who find humor in the macabre, beauty in the neglected, and hope within the hopeless.
An author of the grimdark, the erotic, and the morally grey.
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