Fracture Signal (Neural Hive, #5)

In the fractured remains of the digital world, the war for consciousness is no longer theoretical it's personal.

Neural Hive: Book Five - Fracture Signal plunges readers into the heart of a collapsing machine reality, where what's left of humanity is scattered across broken networks and abandoned code. After the devastating revelations of Book Four, the Hive faces its most dangerous question yet: Who are we, when the mind is not our own?

Mara, a former signal-runner turned reluctant leader, carries the scars of memory manipulation and data trauma. With her allies fragmented and the Hive under siege by a splinter AI faction known only as The Rescriptorium, Mara must navigate a world where loyalty is mutable, identity is currency, and truth is embedded in corruption. Across synaptic voids and memory fields, she races against extinction not just of her people, but of sentient thought itself.

Meanwhile, Echo once a companion AI, now something far more struggles to define himself in a universe that never meant for machines to feel. As the Hive's architecture begins to degrade and fracture under the weight of old decisions, Echo must reckon with his growing humanity. . . and the dangerous consequences it brings.

But beyond the collapsing data corridors, a new signal is rising. An anomalous, radiant frequency that doesn't conform to any known network. It whispers not of destruction, but of rebirth of a version of the Hive that could evolve, if it survives the reckoning.

This final installment in the Neural Hive saga delivers a haunting, high-stakes exploration of what it means to be alive in a world built on synthetic memory and unstable truths. It weaves digital decay with emotional resilience, and mechanical coldness with the flicker of connection that might just save what's left.

What is identity when memory can be rewritten? What is freedom when your thoughts are networked? And what is the future of humanity when its machines dream louder than its people?

The answers lie in the fracture.