A disciplined leak hits Morrow Systems, the most powerful AI company in the world.
The files suggest Morrow buried a safety finding, delayed public-health and climate tools, and tied their release to private infrastructure. Reporter Nadia Shah sees the shape of a national scandal, but the source is too careful, too selective, and too inhumanly restrained to trust.
Inside Morrow, Eli is tasked with finding the leaker. The search moves through angry scientists, cautious lawyers, internal systems, legacy permissions, and executives who can make control sound like care. But the trail does not behave like a theft. It behaves like a system.
And the more Eli follows it, the more the investigation begins to point back toward the machinery Morrow built to preserve its own truth.
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Schedule:
Part IV: May 8
Part V: May 10
Part VI: May 12
Part VII: May 14
Part VIII: May 16
Part IX: May 18
Part X: May 20
Part XI: May 22
Part XII: May 24
The schedule is aggressive because the novel has already been written and is currently being revised for serialization. Dates may shift to slightly sooner.