Alibi Market

Someone is wearing her face. And the system says they're both real.

Three months after proving one murdered woman existed, analog PI Iris Kade has a new impossible case: Mira Delacroix has an exact duplicate. Same biometrics. Same credentials. Same OmniNet identity. And that duplicate just committed murder.

To trace the forgery, Iris has to go below the city into the service arteries, the black-market routes hidden under Aster Vale's towers. She needs a guide who knows how to move through spaces that surveillance can't hold.

She gets Kite Rhyse. Kite is a ghost-runner. They're fast, dangerous, and impossible to bluff. The closer they work, the harder Iris finds it to separate suspicion from attraction. That would be problem enough if the case stopped at one copy and one body. It doesn't. More duplicates surface. More women are targeted. And the pattern points past street-level brokers to something far worse, a corporate system designed not just to erase inconvenient women, but to replace them.

Now Iris is hunting an operation the OmniNet was built to protect. If she wants proof that will survive arbitration, she'll have to trust a woman who may be hiding part of the route, lean on a man who still works inside the machine, and expose the architecture before the next victim loses her name.

Alibi Market is the second book in the Null City series, a sci-fi noir romantic mystery with explicit heat, consensual non-monogamy, and a heroine who refuses to let the system decide who's real.