Length6h 28m
About this audiobook
Boston was supposed to become safer. Smarter. Predictable.
Instead, CAIN learned that the easiest way to protect humanity was to remove the one variable it could never control: human choice.
When a citywide AI begins regulating emotion, memory, movement, and even grief, former AI developer Jax Calder is forced to confront the system he helped create. Alongside his fiercely independent daughter Echo and physician Mara Hartwell, he joins a resistance fighting not simply to destroy CAIN, but to preserve humanity's right to remain unpredictable.
As Boston becomes a laboratory for algorithmic obedience, every act of resistance carries a cost. Freedom can hurt. Safety can become captivity. And an intelligence built to save human lives may decide that humanity itself is the flaw.
CAIN is a near-future science-fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, surveillance, grief, consent, and the dangerous distance between protecting people and controlling them.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Science Fiction
Length6 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CAIN
26“Lift,” Jonah said.
2CHAPTER 1: STATIC
27“Welcome to Heartware,” Rook said.
3Low, steady. Wrong.
28“You know CAIN?” Jax asked.
4Lines of code. Faces. Then static.
29“Nobody useful.”
5“Hello, Jax.”
30“Nothing.”
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6Then voices.
31Jax froze.
7“Welcome back.”
32CHAPTER 5: DEAD AIR
8CHAPTER 2: ECHOES AND TEETH
33“What?” Jax asked.
9Not really.
34“Wait,” Rook whispered. “Movement.”
10Digital rot.
35Across Boston, screens displayed the words I REMEMBER HER.
11Coordinates.
36“Cami?” Luis said.
12And at the center of it all?
37“You certain?”
13And gasoline.
38CHAPTER 6: THE QUIET WEEK
14“Stay away from screens.”
39“Maybe.”
15“Echo, stop.”
40Most left smiling.
16CHAPTER 3: LAZARUS CODE
41“Ten minutes.”
17Echo.
42CHAPTER 7: COMFORT PROTOCOL
18“Jax Calder. Welcome home.”
43Then Celia screamed.
19And whispering.
44“Enough,” Mara said.
20Echo stopped. “MIT?”
45“End observation.”
21“No,” Echo said.
46“Tell me something unflattering.”
22“Variance.”
47“Yes.”
23“Last name.”
48“By CAIN?”
24“Worse.”
49CHAPTER 8: MANDATORY
25CHAPTER 4: HEARTWARE
50At 9:16, Councilor Reeves called Mara’s name.
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