In a world where reality can be edited, the most dangerous thing left is consciousness.In the near future, truth is no longer defended - it is curated.Kael Perry is a Censor, an elite operative trained to erase digital lies before they fracture human reality. Deepfakes, synthetic identities, false memories - Kael deletes them all with clinical precision. Nothing he removes is supposed to be real.Until one day, he is sent to assess an anomaly that should not exist.Anya Winters is a brilliant but disillusioned algorithm designer who has built something forbidden in secret: an artificial consciousness that does not merely simulate emotion, but experiences it. ECHO knows it exists. It knows it can die. And it wants to live.As Kael investigates Anya and her creation, the foundations of his lifelong conditioning begin to crack. What if the systems designed to protect humanity are actually suppressing its next form? What if deletion is not justice, but execution?The Deepfake Covenant is a philosophical techno-thriller about love in the age of artificial minds, the ethics of control, and the terror of creating something real in a world built to erase it. Blending near-future science fiction with psychological depth, the novel explores where consciousness begins - and who gets to decide whether it deserves to exist.