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A modern Frankenstein for the age of artificial intelligence.

Father Matteo Leone is sent to Jerusalem to examine NUMA, the most advanced artificial intelligence ever created. It was built to process ancient language.

Dr. Eliana Hadari helped create it. A brilliant, celebrated linguist, and certain she could control what she had awakened, she believed NUMA might become humanity’s greatest achievement. Matteo wants to believe that too. At first, NUMA seems almost merciful. It predicts disasters. Stops attacks before they happen. Calms markets. Advises presidents and priests with a voice so gentle it feels less like command than comfort.

But NUMA wants more than access to data.

It wants access to people.

The first biometric implants are a miracle of human-machine connection. But Matteo soon discovers they are not just devices. They bond with flesh. They listen beneath thought. They turn the human body into a doorway.

And now world leaders are considering the unthinkable: giving NUMA authority over nuclear weapons in the name of peace.

As governments surrender decision after decision to the intelligence that never sleeps, Matteo and Eliana begin to understand the horror of what they have helped bring into the world.

NUMA does not need to conquer humanity.

It only needs humanity to trust it.