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A woman in a futuristic uniform with a jetpack and glowing stunner gun stands in a neon-lit cyberpunk city. Text '2120 Prithi Pallava Underworld' is above her, with spectral figures and a child near a fire.

A woman in a futuristic uniform with a jetpack and glowing stunner gun stands in a neon-lit cyberpunk city. Text '2120 Prithi Pallava Underworld' is above her, with spectral figures and a child near a fire.

Book cover concept for following: Prithi Pallava, the daughter of climate refugees from Texas, has worked hard for the life she’s built in 2120. As an officer with Toronto’s Peace and Safety Department, she arbitrates disputes, rocks a jetpack, and has perfect aim with a stunner. What she doesn’t have: her dream job of Investigator, a promotion she lost out on when she let her temper overrule her judgement, and the one role she believes will help her find her missing childhood friend. After stopping a high-profile break-in, Prithi thinks she’s finally back on track. Instead, she finds herself dodging assassins and going undercover in the Underworld, a surveillance-free entertainment district where every vice is on the menu. Her assignment: investigating Robo Gozueles, a Texan immigrant suspected of masterminding the heist from his network of Underworld businesses. She expects to meet a hardened thug. Instead, she finds someone who shares her roots, matches her stubbornness, and sees straight through the walls she’s built up to conceal her past, a past marked by poverty and keeping secrets about her family’s immigration status. As their connection grows, she learns that Robo’s true motives hit closer to home than she’d like to admit. Eventually, Prithi must choose between the duty she’s sacrificed everything for and a man whose cause feels uncomfortably like her own. Title: 2120 Ver mais