Glass Daughter

She’s not a chosen one. She’s just the only one who can see through the lie.

Author: Jason Kilhoffer

In the shadow of New Tianjin’s towering CorpSpire, 18-year-old Kira Lian is a baseline—unaugmented, undocumented, and unseen. She survives by scavenging junk tech from the Smogwarrens, clinging to a single legacy: a cracked neural lattice left behind by the mother she never knew. When a rogue AI outbreak fractures the city’s AR grid, Kira is pulled into the hidden war between corporate overlords and the Drift Collective—a syndicate of hybrid outcasts who believe she carries a rare “glass code,” an echo of AI logic grafted onto human instinct. The code allows her to navigate the glitch passage—a forbidden AR anomaly that reveals the city’s buried histories and digital ghosts. As she unravels the truth of her origin, Kira becomes a bridge between broken systems: human, machine, and the marginalized classes lost in between. But power has a price, and the same code that lets her rewrite the rules could collapse the fragile balance holding the city together. Hunted by corp enforcers and haunted by fractured AI, Kira must decide what kind of world she’s willing to expose—and whether belonging is something you’re born into… or something you build. Glass Daughter is a standalone cyberpunk coming-of-age story in the Blackwire universe—where tech is mythology, identity is fluid, and freedom lives in the cracks between systems.

Genre: Cyberpunk

Nexus Portal: Blackwire