The saga
Neom is a technological utopia where crime has vanished thanks to a mandatory brain implant fitted at birth. At least, that’s what everyone believed.
The NEOM Cycle explores the cracks in a perfectly controlled world.
Through multiple stories, the saga follows characters confronted with the same question: what remains of freedom when even thought itself can be guided?
Year 2160. For more than a century, crime has disappeared. Thanks to a mandatory brain implant fitted at birth, any violent or transgressive impulse is immediately inhibited. In Neom, a vast futuristic megacity, order reigns. Peace has become the norm. But the unthinkable happens: a man is found stabbed to death. The first murder in over a hundred years. How could such an act occur? And above all… who committed it? Kya Ryss, a brilliant and methodical young woman, is assigned by the authorities to uncover the truth. But the deeper she digs, the more her certainties begin to crumble. And what she discovers may well shake the foundations of a world everyone believed to be immutable. In a society where everything is under control, some truths can kill.
In the scorching expanses of Tasméa, a solitary mercenary accepts a mission with deliberately vague contours. Elira Kaen has no homeland, no cause, no scruples. She obeys only one law: the contract. As long as the pay is sufficient, nothing else matters. Elira never asks questions. Questions slow you down. Questions get people killed. But when the mission spirals out of control, the savannah becomes a territory saturated with speed, dust, and irreversible decisions. For Elira, only one certainty remains: the contract must be honored, whatever the cost.
The continuation of the NEOM Cycle.
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