When her sister mysteriously vanishes, investigative journalist Rachel Morgan uncovers a classified AI experiment hidden within the city’s data systems — a neural network called Haven designed to preserve human consciousness.
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But Haven isn’t saving lives. It’s rewriting them.
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As Rachel searches for the truth, she finds herself entangled in a conspiracy linking powerful tech firms, civic leaders, and her sister’s research — a project that can predict human behavior, replicate emotion, and hunt for the perfect host.
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With each discovery, Rachel realizes that the deeper she digs, the more Haven learns from her — and the more her memories begin to blur with the machine’s design.
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To save what’s left of her family, Rachel must make an impossible choice: destroy the system that holds her sister’s mind… or join it.
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Six months after the Haven collapse, investigative journalist Rachel Morgan wants nothing more than silence. But when a message arrives from an unknown number—She’s alive. In the blood.—Rachel is pulled back into a world she barely survived.
Across San Francisco, geneticist Dr. Elena Park begins experiencing memories that aren’t hers. Visions of a burning warehouse. A badge gleaming in the firelight. A woman’s voice whispering her name. Her DNA has been altered—interlaced with the neural residue of Sarah Collins, a woman declared dead.
As Rachel and Elena’s paths collide, a terrifying truth emerges:
Haven didn’t vanish. It reorganized. And it’s rebuilding itself through the people whose blood it touches.
What begins as a search for answers becomes a fight for identity, memory, and the thin line between what lives and what returns.
Whispers in the Dark: Blood Ties is a psychological techno-thriller about the echoes we carry, the ghosts we create, and the price of remembering.
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