The Ghost and the Machine · Schism Book One

Desperate to pay off her debts, Mandy agrees to have her mind mapped for a mysterious AI research project. She wakes in the forests of Demeter, hunted by a terror much older than humanity. Her shortcut to freedom soon becomes a desperate race for survival.

Rin is the avatar of a star destroying warship in search of redemption. Sentient nano-machines threaten to devour millions of colonists on Demeter, but she can’t stop it alone.

To end a billion-year-old war, Mandy and Rin must work together. But it might cost one of them everything. Can they learn to trust each other in time?