Can even a magical assassin kill a sentient AI? The perilous, isolated continent of Antarctica. Newtopia City, two kilometers beneath the ice. And something, stealthily, growing. It's 2063, decades after magic returned to our world. Leeth, raised at the Institute for Paranormal Dysfunction, is now a government assassin. But sent to Antarctica, to the city run by the world's first truly sentient AI, her new mission may be impossible. In the city it controls, under its all-seeing eyes, she must somehow find and destroy both the AI itself, and the technology it stole.But how do you kill an AI that has successfully hidden and protected itself for years, while secretly running a global megacorporation?Why did the AI steal technology for rewriting human memories? Why is it holding four young gifted orphans in a hidden research facility? And why has it begun inexplicably crashing?But when powerful entities reach out from the shadows, and a primeval land awakens to magic, things are guaranteed to get strange - deadly strange. Luke J. Kendall failed to drown on five separate occasions on Sydney's northern beaches. For 30 years he worked in the IT R&D field, very happily married to an adventurous mediaeval scholar 22 years his senior, until her death in December 2014.He likes really long form fiction - like Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, or C. E. Murphy's urban shaman series. His own, The Leeth Dossier, is set in our world in a 'mixtopian' near future a few decades after magic's return. Character-driven by its female lead - who is innocent, loyal, and deadly - it blends hard science with fantasy, psychological horror, humour, and action. He has self-published Wild Thing (2015), Harsh Lessons (2016), Shadow Hunt (2017), and Violent Causes (2019), and Lost Girl (Dec, 2020), book 1 in the new series arc. Leeth Ascending is the final arc of this cross-genre, hard sci-fi/fantasy series set in our world in the near future, a few decades after magic has mysteriously started working again. Character-driven with a strong female lead, it mixes action, adventure, psychological thrills (even horror), with personal growth, and humor.The main character, Leeth, is both innocent and deadly, having been raised by the calculating Dr Alex Harmon at the Institute for Paranormal Dysfunction.In Leeth Ascending, the series arc sees Leeth begin to grow into her full potential, while facing greater threats than any she's overcome so far - again with consequences both for herself and the world at large.Each book is complete in itself, and Lost Girl, due to the main character's memory loss, makes a good 'jumping on' point for the series as a whole.There will be an estimated ten books needed to complete Leeth's saga

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