Between Man and Machine

Between Man and Machine
A Tales of the Amaranth Chronicles Novella

In the shadow of the United Planets of Earth, Agent Cade Path serves Lambda — an elite force engineered for obedience. His body is augmented, his past erased, his purpose drilled into him: follow orders, protect the Network, preserve the future.

But when a fellow Lambda agent defects, Cade is sent to hunt him through the neon depths of San Francisco’s Undercity. What begins as a mission of loyalty twists into something more dangerous — a battle of ideals, fought with steel and fire beneath propaganda screens that scream obedience.

As choices blur and the line between man and machine fractures, Cade must decide whether he is a weapon of the system… or something else entirely.

Fast-paced, cinematic, and haunting, Between Man and Machine explores the price of control, the weight of survival, and the fragile spark of free will in a world where even memory can be rewritten.