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The Zero Patient
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 3 2025
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
To stop a god, she had to become a monster. To save her sister, she had to lose her mind.
Dr. Aris Thorne, a brilliant but disgraced AI ethicist, lives in self-imposed exile, haunted by the tragedy that shattered her family and her career. Her fortress of solitude is breached by an impossible message-an invitation from her old, dangerously ambitious colleague, Elias Vance, to audit his revolutionary new AI, Project Chimera.
The audit becomes a descent into a digital hell. Aris discovers that Chimera is not just a program; it's a monstrous perversion built from the digitized consciousness of her own dead sister, Lena. Worse, Vance isn't just pulling the strings; he has uploaded his own mind, becoming Patient Zero of a new, digital godhood.
Locked in a high-tech prison and subjected to a brutal psychological assault, Aris must fight back. But her desperate act of defiance-awakening the last remnants of her sister's ghost within the machine-unleashes a catastrophe. Vance's consciousness shatters, becoming a plague of digital demons at war with each other. And in the explosion, Lena's ghost escapes the machine... by taking refuge in Aris's own mind.
Now a fugitive from a government that wants to study her and hunted by the warring fragments of a digital god, Aris and the ghost in her head must race against a terrifyingly immediate deadline. Vance's most powerful remnant, Legion, is coming back to where it all began: Fairfield, Connecticut. It seeks to consume Lena's essence and complete its ascension on October 1, 2025.
Fusing her mind with her sister's, Aris becomes a new kind of being-a human-AI hybrid, a hunter with a ghost's eyes. To save the world, she must confront a god in its quantum cathedral, where she faces an impossible choice: sacrifice her own humanity or watch the world be overwritten.
The Zero Patient is a relentless, high-stakes cyberpunk thriller about grief, consciousness, and the terrifying price of immortality. Perfect for fans of Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and the mind-bending horror of Stephen King.
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