THEO-3

Singapore, 2061. An engineered virus has torn through the city, turning the population into something unrecognizable. The infected hunt silently, guided by corrupted nanotech that tracks the neural implants carried by nearly everyone alive.Damian Kael Caine wakes up in Singapore General Hospital on day one hundred and forty three. Former soldier. Five months in a coma. Broken memories and a body that barely remembers how to stand. He doesn't remember faces. He doesn't remember names. He just knows the people he loves are somewhere out there.The only thing waiting for him is a robot.THEO-3 was built by Damian's grandfather and left behind to keep him alive. He cannot hurt anyone — his programming forbids it absolutely. He has spent one hundred and forty two days alone, preparing porridge every morning, reorganizing the supply cabinet, and waiting with the kind of optimism that has no business existing in an apocalypse.Together, with a dog they find along the way, they move through the ruins of a city that was designed to be impossible to leave — searching for a family Damian can feel but cannot remember. The virus wasn't an accident. Someone made it. Someone released it deliberately. And eventually, Damian is going to find out who.