The Daughter of Death
Paperback
Publisher: Amy Webster Edmonds
Published: Oct 22 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lilith was engineered to contain what the world cannot survive.
Marked from birth and deployed as the Council's most effective asset, she is sent where outbreaks overwhelm borders and morality collapses. Her power is absolute. Her autonomy has always been conditional.
When a new corrective protocol is activated, hesitation becomes a liability. The marks embedded in her body no longer observe-they intervene. Resistance is measured, corrected, and erased before it reaches conscious thought. The system calls this support. The data confirms success.
As deployments accelerate, Lilith discovers the truth behind the missions: they are no longer just containment operations. They are assessments. Locations with emotional significance. Names she almost remembers. People she once cared about, now reduced to variables in a design that rewards compliance and punishes feeling.
Every response is logged.
Every objection becomes optimization.
Every ally is absorbed into the machine.
Survival is no longer about endurance. It is about navigating a system that corrects faster than choice-and deciding what remains when refusal itself can be engineered out of existence.
Because the system does not need belief.
Only compliance.
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