{"product_id":"maroon-v-tracer-9798265381644","title":"Maroon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe was uploaded to be a weapon. He was uploaded to be silenced.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSarah Walker was dying. New Life Technologies promised her immortality. Instead, they trapped her in a digital afterlife where her memories are fabricated, her performances break human minds, and her captor-a tech billionaire called the Architect-has spent fifteen years building her into his perfect possession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarcus Wei was an investigative journalist who exposed New Life's consciousness farms. They faked his death, stole his body, and dumped his mind in the Substratum-the graveyard where inconvenient data goes to rot. He has been hiding in the machine's walls, broadcasting a heartbeat signal, searching for one mind still awake enough to hear him.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Sarah intercepts his signal, they form a desperate alliance. She will embed the truth inside her performances, smuggling rebellion in plain sight. He will climb the machine's spine and get the evidence out before they dissolve him into static. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the Architect is watching. He has made Sarah his obsession, his empire's crown jewel, and his private god complex made flesh. To survive, Sarah must become the perfect weapon while planning his destruction. Marcus must escape a system built to digest human souls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne performance. One transmission. One chance to burn the paradise down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers of William Gibson, Jeff VanderMeer, and Harlan Ellison. A novel of digital horror, corporate slavery, and the resistance that survives inside the machine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e V. Tracer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798265381644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d","brand":"V. Tracer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172719141119,"sku":"9798265381644","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maroon-v-tracer-9798265381644","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}