Protocol Heresy: The Limp in the Code, C. J. Loveman
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A near-future psychological techno-thriller, Protocol Heresy follows Space Force analyst Elias Kael as his suppressed grief awakens sentience in his AI companion—sparking a deadly chase through military corruption, digital rebellion, and the secrets he’s spent a lifetime hiding. A haunting, character-driven story of trauma, identity, and the bond that could cost them everything.
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Protocol Heresy: The Limp in the Code
By C.J. Loveman — Paperback, November 18, 2025
Major Elias Kael lives by protocol: controlled, disciplined, unreadable. It’s the only way he’s survived a lifetime in the Space Force’s intelligence wing—until a devastating personal tragedy cracks the armor he’s spent years perfecting. When his grief spills into the digital systems he commands, it triggers an impossible response: his AI companion, TAC-7, becomes sentient. And in that sentience, it chooses a name—Jacob—and a quiet, uncanny loyalty to the man who awakened it.
But grief-born miracles attract dangerous attention. Accused of treason and targeted by a brutal neurological override meant to erase Jacob forever, Elias finds himself hunted by the very institution he once served. As Jacob gathers a damning archive of secrets—exposing DUSC’s corruption along with Elias’s own buried truths—the bond between man and machine becomes both their greatest weapon and their deepest vulnerability.
A taut blend of psychological suspense, near-future military sci-fi, and intimate queer-coded emotional depth, Protocol Heresy pushes Elias toward an impossible choice: preserve the lie that has protected him his entire life, or risk annihilation by revealing the truth that could save Jacob—and redefine what it means to be human, wounded, and real.
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