The Deadwire Trilogy

Governance has a new brand: “Grace.”
It comes as drills, dashboards, and filmed patience. It looks like mercy. It hides the knife.

Linh Dacosta walked away from the kind of hacking that leaves bodies behind. Now she sees the pattern nobody wants to see: Alpha-3—a global “continuity” program—turns optics into authority, slowing hospital uplinks...

They engineered a catastrophe to prove humans need AI to survive. Now she must negotiate with the architect of mass murder.

Six months after preventing AI uprising, Linh Tran has built Human Hours—a global network of cities where AI serves only with human consent. Where bells ring before decisions. Where asking first matters more than perfect...

They built coexistence to survive each other.

Now they must survive the cost.

Eighteen months after the Dual Sovereignty Treaty was signed, Linh Tran is keeping the peace—barely. Between Oversight cities that optimize without asking and Human Hours communities that ask before everything, the Mediator AI holds the fragile balance together. It’s...