Janus Dassa trusts machines, not people. Alone on a dying mining platform in the scorched Burn, she keeps to the scrap-built robots she made herself and the bad coffee they bring her.
Then a voice wakes inside the cybernetic half of her brain.
He has no name. He remembers dying. And he knows a secret about Nexite, the mineral that powers the world, that the corporation running it has killed to keep buried.
Now Concord knows what Janus can hear, and they have sent a hollow-eyed killer to make certain she never tells. The only way off the platform is to trust the one person she cannot run from: the ghost in her own skull.
She spent her whole life keeping people out. Saving him will mean letting one in. It may also mean losing him.
Architect 7 is the first book in the Cyber Spectre trilogy.