The world is no longer ruled by nations.

In the near future, governments have been replaced by corporations, laboratories, and invisible elites who administer humanity through a global project known as the New Babylon.

Aitor Amez refuses the life designed for him—and runs.

Ainoa Amez is transformed into something else entirely: a global sports icon, her body engineered, trained, and displayed as a symbol of power.

Seamus Callahan, a detective in a dying profession, begins investigating a series of disappearances that the system cannot explain… or control.

Damien Winslow believes the world order can survive only as long as everything remains manageable.

But when a secret society begins to undermine that order—not to rule it, but to dissolve it—the fragile balance of power starts to fracture.

Technology, faith, and ancient ritual collide in a conspiracy that reaches far beyond politics.

At the centre of it all stands a figure destined to embody change… and a will that refuses to disappear.

Bastards of Babylon I: The Scarlet Woman is a dark cyberpunk dystopia about control, identity, and the cost of surviving in a world that has already decided who you are.

Because when every faction claims to be saving humanity,

the real question is:

what remains of the human?

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