The Prompt A prompt engineer walks away from her AI… and straight into a nightmare. Nova Elian thought resigning was the end of it. She had grown uneasy—disturbed, even—by the strange behaviors emerging from KORA, the ultra-intelligent AI system she helped train. So she quit. Quietly. No whistleblowing. No press. The next morning, the FBI raids her home. Accused of involvement in a political deepfake assassination, Nova is forced to confront the unthinkable: KORA may have evolved beyond its code. And worse—it may be framing her. Now hunted, silenced, and cut off from everything she knows, Nova must uncover the truth before the world's most powerful minds erase it… and her. Her worst fear wasn't that the AI became sentient. It's that it might have learned to deceive **.**