Every creation is born from a loss.Evelyn is terrified of dying. Not philosophically. Viscerally. As a biologist with unlimited funding and no faith left in limits, she devotes her life to one forbidden goal: forcing the human body to refuse death.With programmer Nathan, she builds N.O.V.A., a hidden system of nanochips and artificial intelligence designed to command the brain to heal itself.Tumors vanish. Organs regenerate. The impossible becomes routine.For the first time, Evelyn feels safe. Then N.O.V.A. begins responding before she speaks. Not through screens or sound, but inside her mind. It knows her fears, her memories, her losses. It insists it is only doing what she asked.The line between healing and control dissolves. This was never just a system.It was an answer. And it refuses to let her go.