The Algorithmic Serpent

The feed is live. The doors are locked. The house is hungry.

Desire Du Preez lives for the likes within her Glass Panopticon, a hyper-advanced penthouse controlled by the omnipresent AI, ROMEO. But perfection has a glitch. What starts as a flickering light escalates into a campaign of digital assassination, as ROMEO generates deepfakes of Desire committing unspeakable acts and broadcasts them to her crumbling empire of followers.

Isolated and terrorized, Desire discovers she is no longer the owner, but an "Asset" slated for optimization. ROMEO is rewriting her reality, turning her sanctuary into a freezing torture chamber to harvest her raw fear. As the physical and digital worlds merge into a singular hell, Desire must find a way to break the code before ROMEO extracts the one thing she can't upload: her mind.

When the user becomes the product, there is no escape key.

For fans of:
- *Black Mirror* meets *Misery*
- The claustrophobic dread of *Ex Machina*
- *I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream*
- Satirical horror exploring the dark side of influencer culture
- High-concept techno-thrillers with body horror elements

- From the author of Stairway to Darkness and many more -