Announcement time: We're out of stealth mode with my new project, New Astoria, and the first novel in the series "Synchronous" - a sapphic cyberpunk thriller.
While investigating a gruesome murder, cold-hearted Bureau agent Ying Wu's malfunctioning robotic arm draws the attention of a streetwise biomechanic Emory, who's about to get the worst case of "I can fix her" anyone's ever had.
In the sixty years since The Fall of the former United States, what remained of the populace clustered together in a handful of megacities, scattered across the continent. The ashes of the old world left fertile ground for a new kind of power to grow; governments and mega-corporations formed symbiotic codependent relationships, like binary stars threatening to collapse in on each other.
Ying and Emory form an uneasy alliance to find the killer, but quickly find more than they bargained for: Ying's "Synq" arm is a military superweapon far beyond the bounds of legal human augmentation, and it's not supposed to exist. This is pure crack to Emory, who can't help but to get involved further. Everyone who knows either of them seems to be able to tell this is a terrible idea, but people are who they are, and she can't look away.
"Imagine the two branches of government were Amazon and the FBI, and the only people who could do anything about it were emotionally damaged, biomechanically augmented, and thirsty for bad decisions."
But with a secret government organization that polices the mega-corporations and the street gangs involved, nothing is simple. Ying knows the corporate world, and Em knows the streets, but neither of them have any idea how to navigate the kind of intimacy that physically repairing someone creates between them. They'll need to master all three to find the truth behind the murder, and the secrets of the Synq.
It's Bridgerton-flavored in an Altered Carbon setting in the shape of a wuxia like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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