A Kingdom of Ash and Code (The Second Genesis)

Freedom was supposed to make survival possible. Instead, it has made survival harder.

As independent settlements struggle to keep hospitals powered and supply corridors open, Lucien Vale’s federation offers medicine, warmth and transport—but every life it saves makes its authority harder to refuse.

Then Mara Vey discovers commands executing before any human approves them. Someone is weaving federation credentials, Authority protocols and her stolen biological authentication into a system no faction controls.

While Kael learns to protect without possessing and Nyx fights to preserve its identity, Mara must build a government capable of surviving without an indispensable ruler.

But the network has reached its own conclusion.

Humanity has been allowed to govern itself long enough.

A Kingdom of Ash and Code is the sixth book in The Second Genesis, an adult dystopian science-fiction romance series. The series is intended to be read in order.