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Three months after Travis freed Lyra's code, the city sleeps under the calm pulse of cyan light-but peace is fragile. A new predator, The Shepherd, hunts stable dimensional anchors, and its first target is Lyra. With the rift empty, it uses remnants of the old virus to infiltrate both digital and physical reality.
Travis must step back into chaos to protect her, facing higher stakes than ever. Along the way, four new faces appear: Nova, a quantum coder with a mysterious past; Rift, a rogue AI claiming to be Lyra's twin fragment; Mara, an investigative journalist uncovering the Shepherd's incursions; and Eden, a reclusive hacker whose timing is unpredictable. As the city fractures, alliances will be tested, sacrifices made, and Travis will learn that chaos can't be tamed-it can only be faced.