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Exilenet: Nocturna: The Receiver Gospel
Paperback
Series: Exilenet, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 17 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the neon undercity of Erebus Prime, nothing truly belongs to you-not your body, not your face, not even your thoughts.
Vesper Nyx knows this better than anyone.
Once a proprietary asset of Somnius Industries, Vesper escaped corporate ownership by turning herself into something unforgettable-an icon, a myth, a living contradiction. To the world, she is desire given flesh. To those who built her, she is unfinished business.
When a man named Holt wakes up inside a body that is no longer his, Vesper and her partner Binary are pulled into a web of buried experiments, stolen technologies, and black-site secrets that were never meant to surface. What begins as damage control spirals into something far worse: a reckoning with the architects who learned how to turn people into processes-and women into products.
As the city fractures and forgotten systems awaken, Vesper finds herself hunted by Luna Solace, Somnius's perfect enforcer, and by a past that refuses to stay dead. Beneath the chrome and neon, something older is stirring-an intelligence woven into the city itself, watching, listening, waiting.
NOCTURNA is a dark, sensual cyberpunk novel about identity, ownership, and what it means to reclaim yourself in a world that only understands control. It blends high-tech noir with psychological horror, body autonomy, and mythic rebellion-where survival isn't enough, and freedom always comes at a cost.
This is not a story about saving the world.
It's about burning the parts that tried to own you-and deciding what's left.
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