The neXt City

Tales of the Technomancer's Rise, Book 3

By: KaCee Bunn-Smith

Narrated by: Ashley Ogas

The neXt City is a high-voltage civic techno-thriller—part cyberpunk city-builder, part political reckoning.

In post-Bloom Lost Angles, the forges hum, the neXt threads every street, and a fragile democracy struggles to stay honest in daylight. Keel promises order that won’t flinch. Malachi fights to keep doors as doors and power accountable to witnesses. And Chaos—brilliant, tireless, infuriating—must decide whether to stay a spark or become something steadier when a “safety” tool is turned into a weapon.

As raider provocations, deep-layer experiments, and back-channel leaks push the city to its limits, Lost Angles faces the oldest question in a new skin: how much control are we willing to buy in the name of safety—and who pays the price? When the bell rings and the receipts go public, alliances will break, names will matter, and the city will choose what kind of story it wants to be.

The neXt City is a tense, human thriller about consent, oversight, and the tools we trust—where witnesses are part of the machine, and freedom is maintained in daylight, not declared by decree.

©2025 KaCee K Bunn-Smith (P)2025 KaCee K Bunn-Smith