She was hired to organize a dead woman's past. She didn't expect to find her still breathing.
Clara Vance is drowning. Sinking under the crushing weight of her late sister's medical bills, her career as a database specialist is stalling-until an astronomical, life-changing contract lands in her lap. The terms are simple: retreat to The Monolith, a hyper-automated, isolated coastal mansion owned by tech billionaire philanthropist Julian Vance, and catalog the archives of his late wife, Elena, following her tragic suicide.
All Clara has to do is keep her head down, sort the data, and take the money.
But the data doesn't make sense.
As Clara sifts through Elena's digital footprint, she uncovers a chilling anomaly: Elena's emails, social media accounts, and bank records remained active for weeks after her official death certificate was issued.
Trapped inside a house that watches her every move, Clara turns to the mansion's cutting-edge smart network-only to realize that Julian isn't just hiding a crime. He is running a simulation. Elena was never buried. She was harvested. Her voice, her mannerisms, and her mind have been fed into a flawless, AI-driven "digital twin" designed to replace her entirely in the outside world.
And the algorithm is already tracking Clara.
Forced onto heavy medication by Julian's private psychiatrist, Clara secretly spits out the pills, fighting a haze of systemic gaslighting as she watches her own cloned data hit ninety-two percent completion. Julian doesn't want a new wife. He wants a perfect, compliant replacement.
With an unforgettable coastal storm rolling in, a total system lockdown cutting off the world, and a private medical extraction team closing the distance, Clara has less than an hour to execute the ultimate data heist, breach the subterranean server bunker, and save the woman Julian tried to erase.
But how do you outrun a monster who controls the very air you breathe?
