Shadow Veil: Part One - The Lume Protocol

The email had no sender. Just a subject line: LUMINA.Nana Ama Serwaa Sarpong has spent twenty-three years learning the difference between a real whistleblower drop and bait. This is not bait.Buried in the encrypted files is a system called the Lume Protocol - an AI that watches, scores, and quietly classifies people it cannot predict. It calls them Ghost Nodes. It does not detain them. It erases them, until no record remains that they existed at all.One of the flagged entries is her own name.Six hours later, two men are at her door in the rain, giving her sixty seconds to decide whether she walks out or they come in. Her daughter is in the next room. Her eight-year-old grandson is asleep down the hall.To survive the night she will have to trust a man who vanished four years ago, run a city she has spent her career reporting on, and find out how much of what she believes about the system is a lie it wanted her to believe.Set in contemporary Accra, Shadow Veil is a taut, propulsive surveillance thriller about family, complicity, and what it costs to refuse to disappear.Part One of The Lume Protocol series.