In a flooding Ocean City where corporations own the streets and chrome replaces weakness, mercenary Corren "Psyche" Vega has spent years becoming the perfect weapon-emotionless, efficient, incapable of the mistakes that got his brother killed.When his team is hired to recover stolen technology, the job pulls them into a shadow war playing out in Ocean City's underworld. As the mission spirals beyond a simple theft, Psyche must choose: complete his transformation into the disposable weapon this world demands, or risk remembering what it means to be human.In the divide between carbon and steel, humanity isn't lost in a single moment. It's traded away, one piece at a time, until all that remains is the question: Was it worth the cost?