The Hollow Protocol

The world has ended before.

It just doesn’t remember.

Caden Voss has spent his life uncovering secrets buried beneath the digital sprawl of Neo-Troja, but when a cryptic message hijacks his neural deck—HALLOW PROTOCOL ACTIVE—he realizes he’s stumbled onto something far older than corporate black sites or forgotten war zones.

Something rewriting the world in real-time.

Omar “Ody” Dias knows better than most that history is a lie—because he’s lived through versions of it that no longer exist. When a ghost from his past, or something wearing her face, tells him that they’ve been here before, he has to face the impossible: This isn’t the first reset.

As Horizon, the Republic, and rogue cybernetic factions fight for control of the Hollow Protocol—the system designed to erase and rebuild civilization—Caden and Ody must decide: Do they let the world be rewritten again? Or do they finally break the cycle?

But the truth is worse than either of them imagined.

Because this time, the world isn’t rebuilding itself correctly.

And if they fail, there may be nothing left to rewrite.

A high-intensity cyberpunk thriller where reality is the battleground, memory is currency, and the most dangerous system isn’t artificial intelligence—it’s the code running beneath