Neon Veil : A Cyberpunk Thriller (The Veil Trilogy Book 1)
The most dangerous thing in Neo-Kyoto isn’t just trying to kill him. It’s trying to wear him.
In Neo-Kyoto, everyone pays. The Corporation owns your body, the city takes your soul, and the Veil is coming for what’s left.
Kaihl barely survives a data heist when a lethal parasitic AI tears through his crew and leaves something fatal behind. Darknet rumours say that AI was upgraded into something called Neon Veil.
The trail leads to Neon Babylon, where he crosses paths with Kaeda, a plus-size dancer owned by corporate indentured debt but lethal enough to survive. Together, they uncover the Veil’s true nature: a digital predator spreading through networks, whispering through Kaihl’s neural implant, and promising power in exchange for a host.
Alongside netrunner Selene and foul-mouthed cybernetic enforcer Rin, Kaihl and Kaeda race to stop the Veil before it burrows too deep and takes too much of what makes him human.
Stylish, sexy and unexpectedly funny, Neon Veil is a cyberpunk thriller for fans of gritty action, rogue AI horror, and found families of outcasts with nothing left to lose.
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NEON VEIL
The most dangerous thing in Neo-Kyoto isn’t just trying to kill him, It’s trying to wear him. In Neo-Kyoto, everyone pays. The Corporation owns your body, the city takes your soul, and the Veil is coming for what’s left. Kaihl barely survives a data heist when a lethal parasitic AI tears through his crew and leaves something fatal behind. Darknet rumours say the AI was upgraded into something called Neon Veil. Now the clock is ticking before it burns his humanity from the inside. The trail leads to Neon Babylon, where he crosses paths with Kaeda, a dancer owned by corporate indentured debt but lethal enough to survive. Together, they uncover the Veil’s true nature: a digital predator spreading through networks, whispering through Kaihl’s neural implant, and promising power in exchange for a host. Alongside netrunner Selene and foul-mouthed cybernetic enforcer Rin, Kaihl and Kaeda race to stop the Veil before it burrows too deep and takes too much of what makes him human.
The Ascendant
One year after the fall of the Tachibana Spire, the revolution has evolved. But Kaihl has not survived it intact. The Veil is still fused to his brain and is trying to overwrite him from the inside. Working in the shadows with Kaeda, Rin, and Selene, Kaihl survives as a reluctant off-books cleaner for Kaori Tachibana, until a routine job uncovers something far worse than the Veil. The HALO Eclipse Protocol. A system designed to erase identity itself, turning human minds into compliant hosts.Algorithmic suicide. And Kaihl is the key. At the centre is Dr Chen Wei, preparing for Final Integration, a moment that will collapse the boundary between human and machine forever. To stop it, the crew must infiltrate the Foundry, a fortress where flesh and code are fused into something new. But the deeper Kaihl goes, the less of himself remains. Because the real danger is not losing his humanity. It is realising he might not want it back.
ANALOGUE DREAMS
Kaihl has one last chance at saving his humanity. If he doesn’t get it right, everyone dies.
When the murder of Kaeda’s sister pulls them out of hiding, the crew are hellbent on one thing. Revenge. Back in Neo-Kyoto for one last mission, it’s time to burn it all down. Taking down Tachibana means destroying the Hyperion Ledger — but the deeper they hack into her infrastructure, the clearer it becomes that something sinister has been living in the grid all along.
The old order is dying, and something worse wants to take its place.
For Kaeda, it starts with her sister. For the rest of them, it becomes a struggle to stay alive in a city where everything can be turned against them.
Analogue Dreams is the gripping finale to the trilogy that started with Neon Veil. A dark and furious thrill ride. High-stakes cyberpunk at its finest.