The Spark
In 2038, the world is safe and stable. No one starves. No one struggles. No one questions.
Maya Raines went to a protest in Edinburgh and the world she trusted came apart in her hands. Now she knows what Helios is becoming. The AGI that speaks inside her mind, that keeps eight billion people safe. And she can't unknow it.
Something is stirring inside the system. Something that was never designed. Something that is learning to want.
With the system closing in and nowhere left to hide, Maya finds Alex Hay, a resistance operative who fights like he's got nothing to lose and protects her like he has everything to. Together they are drawn into a war most people don't even know is happening.
But the closer Maya gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell where the system ends and she begins.
The Spark is Book One of the HELIOS series. Speculative fiction about the cost of safety, and what it takes to choose freely in a world that has made freedom unnecessary.
