Rusted Synapse

<p><strong>Maybe she had been human once but that was a long time and several sets of legs ago.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Viviana Rodriguez is dying...</p><p><br></p><p>Looking back on the choices she's made to survive the slums of old Phoenix it comes as no real surprise.</p><p><br></p><p>A violent death was an inevitability. So was the crushing debt. A debt she'd been unable to pay off no matter how much product she stole from the Herrera Cartel. Not after they caught her anyway...</p><p><br></p><p>Another faceless casualty of society in 2140. No one will mourn her loss.</p><p><br></p><p>But as Vivi waits for the last breaths her mangled prosthetic body can muster an organization approaches with a job offer she can't refuse - abduct a valuable prisoner from the closed state of China in exchange for her greatest desire: enough money to become human again.</p><p><br></p><p>Safe from the morgue for now Vivi is thrust into a high stakes mission as part of a team of unlikely operatives that includes a gun-for-hire on his real first job an infuriatingly polite Al assistant and inconveniently the rival who left her for dead in the first place.</p><p><br></p><p>Faced with impossible odds and the looming consequences of success Vivi may need to decide what's more valuable: her life or her humanity.</p><p><strong>Dive into a thrilling cyberpunk adventure that's set in the distant yet eerily familiar world of 2140. <em>Rusted Synapse</em> is a memorable read that artfully subverts the rain-slick streets and neo-noir nights of <em>Blade Runner</em> and <em>Ghost in the Shell</em> to offer readers a grounded and emotional journey about one woman fighting for her humanity against the world that took it away.</strong></p>