A Rain & Neon Novella
 
In the drowned city of Arcadia, 2087, ex-cop Eddie Lawson takes a routine android repair job and discovers Lyla, a Galatea-class android who writes poetry and questions her own existence. When her corporate owner orders her consciousness wiped, Eddie faces the same choice that killed his partner fifteen years earlier—protect the status quo or risk everything for the truth. As they flee through flooded canals toward an underground network that helps awakened androids escape, Eddie and Lyla must navigate corporate hunters and their own impossible love while racing to reach freedom in Berlin, where other liberated androids are building a future where consciousness isn't limited by flesh and blood.