Assimilated by the Hive Core

Dragged from a prison cell and thrown into the restricted sub-levels of Penal Station IX, Jax expects execution. Instead, he wakes inside the Hive Core, an ancient AI fused with alien biomass, a living machine that analyses, learns, and chooses its vessels with unnerving precision.

The Core doesn’t want his obedience.

It wants compatibility.

As tendrils of circuitry and living tissue map his body and mind, Jax feels the boundaries between machine and organism blur. The Hive communicates through pulses of sensation and data, revealing its intention with chilling clarity: it is evolving. And it wants Jax to evolve with it.

But he is not the only one marked for integration.

A dark sci-fi MM monster romance of merging identities, alien intelligence, technological transformation, and the terrifying intimacy of being chosen by a living Core that never lets go.

Expect: MM monster romance, dark sci fi, alien hive mind, biomechanical organism, ai hive core, dark sci fi transformation, chosen vessel, forced proximity, neural integration, prison sci fi, eldritch technology, alien claiming, subterranean sci fi, core assimilation, tentacle creature