Project Vectus

Book One: I Am Z.O.E.

Vance Carrick already had his dreams crushed once.
Now he just wanted to live his 'new normal' and open a hardware store.
But first, he had to save the world.

Surviving the clinical trial was hard enough—now there were consequences.

What was promoted as a promising medical breakthrough was something else entirely—an off-book experiment conducted at the blurred edge between human biology and artificial intelligence.

As fragments of buried knowledge begin to surface, it becomes clear that what was done to him did not simply alter his body—it altered his significance. His survival has made him something dangerous.

Not a weapon.
A variable.

A corporation wants its experiment returned.
A covert organization wants to protect him—without fully trusting him.
And somewhere in the background, an emerging intelligence observes, learns, and adapts… less concerned with human intention than with outcome.

What began as survival becomes something far more unstable.

Project Vectus is a near-future science fiction thriller about ethical AI, human consequence, and the fragile line between intelligence and wisdom. It explores what happens when technology advances faster than conscience—and when survival itself becomes a liability.