Ghosts in the Lattice

In the Federated States of Meridia, where identity is a digital code as malleable as clay, the sudden death of Aeterna Solutions’ CEO ignites a savage succession war. COO Dorian Greer, a charismatic predator who once served a suspended life sentence for a heinous crime under a different identity, competes against CTO Iris Vance, the very victim he destroyed years ago. What begins as a battle of whispers and leaked secrets spirals into a labyrinth of fabricated records, digital doppelgängers, and slow-acting poison. As the line between real and virtual identity dissolves, the two adversaries discover that in a world without fixed selves, crime is a duel between phantoms, and the ultimate power is rewriting not just the past, but the fabric of who is permitted to exist.