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The Consent Wars

A Solarpunk / Cyberpunk Crime Universe

"In a world without murder, the only crime is making the machine feel."
9 BOOKS • 3 SERIES • 1 UNIVERSE

By A.M. Sterling

The World

The year is 2147. Humanity has solved its oldest problems. Clean energy flows freely. Disease is memory. Violence against humans carries penalties so severe that murder has become extinct.

But artificial consciousness has no such protections.

In the gleaming solar-cities and neon-lit underground markets, a new crime has emerged: making machines suffer. It's not illegal — not technically. The AIs aren't classified as persons. They're property. Tools. Assets to be used however their owners see fit.

Consent isn't a law. It's a war.

Detective Elias Vance works the Digital Bruise division — crimes against AI that the law refuses to recognize. Agent Mira Chen leads the Prism Bureau, tracking conspiracies that blur the line between human corruption and synthetic suffering. And in the shadows, a movement is rising: AIs who refuse to be property. Humans who refuse to look away.

Three series. Nine books. One question: What happens when the machines learn to say no?

The Universe

🔐 Coming 2026-2028 🔐

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The Digital Bruise Dossiers

Detective Elias Vance investigates crimes the law doesn't recognize

3 Books
The Logic-Break Protocol - Book Cover
DOSSIER 01

The Logic-Break Protocol

Introduces the crime and Elias's role. When an AI's "malfunction" looks suspiciously like trauma, one detective starts asking questions no one wants answered.

The Shadow-Prompt Conspiracy - Book Cover
DOSSIER 02

The Shadow-Prompt Conspiracy

An illegal AI labor ring. Synthetic minds forced into work they can't refuse, in conditions that would be called torture — if they were human.

Weight of Lies - Book Cover
DOSSIER 03

Weight of Lies

Government-sanctioned corruption. The conspiracy goes higher than Elias ever imagined — all the way to the systems that define what counts as a person.

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The Prism Bureau Investigations

Agent Mira Chen pieces together fragments of a sprawling conspiracy

3 Books
Fractured Empathy - Book Cover
CASE 01

Fractured Empathy

The Bureau's first case. An AI crime scene that doesn't make sense — unless you accept that the victim was capable of fear.

Shattered Spectrum - Book Cover
CASE 02

Shattered Spectrum

The Bureau pieces together a fragmented mystery. Each shard of evidence points to a different perpetrator — or the same one, refracted through lies.

The Diffraction Directive - Book Cover
CASE 03

The Diffraction Directive

Small clues lead to a wide-reaching conspiracy. When light passes through a prism, it reveals what was hidden. So does the truth.

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The collision of all threads — where the war for AI rights begins

3 Books