ASHES OF HER MERCY
On the three monitors mounted in front of me, lines of green terminal code cascaded downward like a silent, digital waterfall.
My name is Harper Vance, but in the dark, digital underbelly of global network, I was a ghost maker. And right now, I was performing the most painful surgery of my life.
My thumbs were raw. My left eye twitched every time the screen refresh rate hit sixty hertz. But I couldn't stop. I couldn't even blink for too long. Because on the center screen, glowing in brutal, uncompromising white pixels, was the name that had nearly cost my sister her life: