iPearl
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 6 2025
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
IN THE RAIN-SOAKED GUTTER OF MANC-Z, SHE WAS REBUILT. NOW, SHE'S THE STORM.
Pearl died in the toxic embrace of the Irwell River-ambushed, mutilated, and discarded by Silas Rook's organ-harvesting Vipers. But death was a luxury Manchester couldn't afford her. Resurrected by a black-market cyber-surgeon with stolen tech and grim pragmatism, Pearl is reborn: a fusion of scarred flesh, durasteel, and a volatile cyber-eye pulsing with captured starlight. Her mission is simple-blood for blood, eye for eye.
Yet the augments that saved her life come with ghosts. The experimental arm? Spliced from Syndicate tech. The eye? A prison for something older and far more dangerous than she knows. As Pearl hunts Rook through Manc-Z's decaying towers and drowned docks, she draws the attention of Chimera-a shadowy corporation hell-bent on reclaiming their lost property. Because Pearl isn't just carrying vengeance in her bones. She's carrying the Pale Saint: a cosmic entity of unfathomable power, and the key to Chimera's darkest ambitions.
Trapped between vicious gangs, cold-blooded tech hunters, and the god screaming behind her eyes, Pearl must become more than a weapon. She must become the crucible where humanity and cosmic fury collide. Or burn out in the rain like everything else in this rotting city.
A GRITTY CYBERPUNK SAGA FUSED WITH MANCHESTER'S ICONIC SOUNDTRACK
Blending the visceral brutality of Altered Carbon with the rain-lashed soul of Blade Runner and the anarchic spirit of the Madchester scene, iPearl is a relentless odyssey of vengeance, transformation, and the ghosts we forge in metal and light.
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