The Obake Code: A Sci-Fi Heist

An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician...only to find herself up against a code she might not be able to crack. After the heist of a lifetime, Malia has it all: a loft apartment aboard the massive Kepler Station, expensive clothes, and a dev credit in her favorite video game. She´s also bored as hell. Three years after retiring her mantle as the Obake, the most infamous hacker in the quadrant--and arguably the galaxy--Malia hasn´t taken well to civilian life. So what´s the harm in rigging a few cybernetic prizefights and making a little cash on the side? When Malia´s scheme is uncovered, she runs afoul of Jeongah Song--the dangerous leader of a local gang with a reputation for brutality. Malia is ready for retribution. But what she gets instead is an offer she can´t refuse: take down the local politician leading a "clean up the streets" campaign displacing residents and hindering Jeongah´s operations on the space station... or die. Without another way out, Malia takes the deal. Luckily, she has some friends she can call on in times of need: a master thief, a street racing wheelman, and a femme fatale grifter. But as Malia digs deeper into the politician´s shady dealings, she finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy that might be too big for her to handle. One that has roots in her own rise as the Obake--a cybernetically enhanced superhacker created by a power-mad genius... a superhacker whose mods are rapidly degrading. Faced with threats on all sides, Malia may finally be in over her head...or stuck--forever--inside her own mind.