So what happens when an AI has children ... and you threaten them? For fans of Altered Carbon, Blade Runner, Queen of Angels or Leviathan Wakes, Core Melt is a sci-fi noir suspense thriller about forbidden love, espionage and betrayal. Emin Wei is a Hunter class cyber, birthed on the spaceport moon of Orkutsk for a single purpose. Find suspected terrorist Kristen Newgard, judge her, and if guilty, terminate her. Only as he is setting out on his mission, does he learn three other Hunters have gone before him, and none have returned. "Both a love story and a sci-fi thriller, Core Melt is a lot of fun. Holden offers vibrant and effective worldbuilding that will keep readers entranced." Publishers' Weekly BookLife. **All books in the Coruscant series are stand-alone stories set in the Coruscant universe.**