Leiner Mieer's ordinary life began to fall apart when the freezer at the supermarket melted his ice cream cake.
The Clocktower says he is an anomalous asset in need of protection. The Cult of Withering and Bloom calls him perfect sacrificial material. Chimera considers him a precious experimental specimen. And his gentle psychiatrist, Victor, spent seven years building an elaborate cage in his mind. Now he softly calls to him: “It's time to come home, Leiner.”
On the run, Leiner discovers that he is the “Sun God’s Child” created by the Church of Freedom: a living bug, an error every System wants to erase. With Shadow, a defector, a mysterious note, and power awakening inside him, he infiltrates the city's depths to uncover the truth about his origins.
But the truth may be the most dangerous weapon of all.
And everyone who wants to help him has their own deletion protocol.
