Availability: ebook in French only for now. English and Spanish translations will come later.
In 2048, humanity lives almost entirely inside the Mesh: a permanent neural network. Bodies, emotions, sex, memory — everything can be augmented, rented, monetized. Soul prostitution is no longer a scandal: it is a subscription.
Nea is an elite agent. She secures the Mesh's lower layers, cuts "clean" intrusions, dials empathy down a notch after every op. With Kael, a soldier of visible grafts, and Hachi, the only presence in their home no insurer could price, she still holds something like a life.
Then a packet lands in her private stream. No sender. No route. An impossible signature:
UNLISTED / NOT ABSENT
What follows — a consciousness named Aether, a circle of Initiates, a Deluge that makes simple withdrawal impossible — will push her to a choice the Mesh never put in its menus: the Cradle, the Veil, or the Flesh. A new biological body. A soul transfer. A chosen death, to be reborn fragile.
The Call is book one of The Flesh, first published title in the Revivre cycle. Self-contained in promise (Mesh immersion → transfer decision), it opens three autonomous paths: to live otherwise, to live the same thing again, or to start over from the bottom.
For readers of Ghost in the Shell, The Matrix, and stories where identity is paid for in flesh.
This volume: 13 chapters · opening White Noise · the cost of comfort · the impossibility of simple unaugmentation.
Free sample: full chapter 1 (PDF, French).
Work deposited with the INPI (France).