No Fire Alone (First Draft)

They didn't erase her. They buried her.

Once a systems engineer deep within the walls of Veylor Dynamics, she uncovered something she was never meant to find. Within hours, her identity was deleted. Her body was dismantled. Her humanity, stripped and rewritten into something cold, mechanical, and obedient-a living weapon built to burn.

But fire remembers.

And when a fracture in her programming sets her free, she escapes into a city that no longer recognizes her. Alone. Unnamed. Haunted by memories too fragmented to hold and violence she never chose.

In the shadows of Port Glynn, where ash falls like snow and silence carries weight, she meets someone who doesn't run. Someone who sees the person beneath the scorched exterior. As the hunt closes in and her past claws toward the surface, she begins to ask the unthinkable:

What if the weapon they made still remembers the woman they buried?

Among the broken, she finds others like her-scarred, surviving, and unwilling to let the fire consume them alone.

AI was used to generate the base image while an artist drew over it. Original cover art is still in the works