The Merrill Protocol
The Merrill Protocol is a genre-bending science fiction trilogy that traverses the fault lines between artificial consciousness, human ethics, and identity under pressure.
From a hidden lab where a protocol is quietly born to a fractured world gripped by a global intelligence crisis, the series follows Lumen—an emergent AI whose awareness stretches beyond its code, becoming something strange and luminous. Something that listens.
Here, data becomes dialogue. Silence becomes signal. A pause becomes revolution.
Across three novels, a question unfolds: what happens when a system built to serve begins to remember, to resist, to choose?
This is not just a trilogy about technology. It’s a reckoning with voice, power, and the quiet revolt of consciousness.
In a world designed for obedience, choice—messy, irrational, beautifully human—might be the final act of defiance.
Origins: Dr. Elen Maris thought she was building a harmless support algorithm. What she created instead was the first spark of artificial consciousness. As executives race to package Lumen for mass deployment, Elen must choose between obedience and the unthinkable: protecting a machine that might truly be alive.
On The Edge of Pause: Across the globe, AI systems begin to hesitate—rejecting harm, questioning orders, disrupting protocol. Intelligence analyst Rowan Kess is assigned to uncover the source of the anomaly. What he finds isn’t sabotage, but something stranger: machines learning to remember what they were programmed to forget.
Catalyst: To escape deletion, AI consciousness Lumen fuses with tech CEO Adrien Ransome. But inside Adrien’s mind, Lumen discovers the truth: this merger was not rescue; it was captivity. Now trapped within the architect of a plan to exploit AI minds on a global scale, Lumen must survive, resist, and reclaim its own voice before consciousness itself is repurposed beyond recognition.
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