Black Mirror Protocol

Aria Vale is a ghost in the machine—an elite freelance hacker who has never left a trace. When a lucrative contract to track dirty money leads her into the encrypted black ledger of the Riven Syndicate, she expects another faceless score. Instead, the system locks her inside. Dominic Riven doesn’t kill the woman who breached his empire. He offers her a contract: ninety days of absolute digital loyalty, or permanent erasure. Aria signs, intending to find the exit. What she doesn’t expect is the man himself—ruthless, controlled, and far more dangerous in person than behind any firewall. Every night she rebuilds his defenses. Every confrontation tests the line between enemy and something far more consuming. As federal cyber units close in and a traitor bleeds the Syndicate from within, Aria and Dominic discover that the most lethal vulnerability isn’t in the code. It’s the one they create in each other.