Mission Brief
He wanted the truth.
Now he just wants to stay alive.
Investigative reporter Calum Blake has spent his career exposing powerful people who believed they were untouchable. This time, they decide to prove him wrong.
With assassins closing in and nowhere left to run, Cal has one option.
Aegis Robotics.
His new bodyguard is Alina Seven.
She looks human. Smiles like one. Even jokes... occasionally.
She is also one of the most advanced artificial beings ever created.
As corruption reaches from the streets to the highest levels of government, Cal uncovers a conspiracy that people are willing to kill to protect. Staying alive will require trusting someone who wasn't born, doesn't think like a human, and may understand humanity better than humans understand themselves.
Because Alina isn't just protecting Cal.
She's quietly changing her own future.
BUILT, NOT BORN is a fast-paced science fiction thriller about trust, sacrifice, and what it truly means to become human.
