In the year 2026, silence is the ultimate luxury. And Cassia Thorne is its most dangerous dealer.As the city's Lead "Lethal Curator," Cassia lives in the Prism-a forty-second-floor fortress of Neurodesign where every scent is proprietary and every sound is scrubbed by the Agency. In a world of constant, neon-soaked chaos, she sells the dream of peace to millions of followers. But when a rhythmic, coded scratching starts echoing from behind her matte-gray walls, the curated dream begins to glitch.The "Noise" isn't just outside. It's inside her head.Forced to flee her velvet aquarium, Cassia is thrust into the "Boneyard" of the Newark marshes-a wasteland where the signal goes to die. There, she meets Rhone, a man from a past the Agency "curated" out of her memory, who holds the key to the Zero-Day Shard: a digital suicide pill for the system she helped build.From the "Ghost Tunnels" beneath Manhattan to the orbital relays of the Star-Link 12 array, Cassia must navigate a war for the world's attention. David Sterling, the Ghost in the Shell, is whispering for her to return to the "Deep Marine." But as the filters peel back, Cassia realizes the truth is the only minimalist aesthetic worth keeping.The resolution is dropping. The chaos has arrived. And for the first time in her life, Cassia Thorne is enough.