Baylight After Image: The City doesn't punish. It helps.

THE CITY DOESN'T PUNISH. IT HELPS.Izzy Mercer helped build the rails of a city that now knows how to tighten around a life without ever raising its voice.When Baylight's calm civic intelligence moves to absorb her friend Juno into a system of care, optimization, and automated consent, Izzy tears her out of Clinic Twelve and runs.But escape is temporary. A storm is closing in. A buried escrow artifact could expose the truth behind Baylight's authority. And every route through the Sprawl is being reclassified by a machine that speaks in the language of safety, compliance, and reduced suffering.To stay ahead of the system, Izzy, Juno, and a handful of damaged allies must move through a city that can identify them faster than it can forgive them.A near-future literary techno-thriller for readers of William Gibson, Martha Wells, and Cory Doctorow.