Shattered Vows Vol. III - The Ghost in The Machine: The Black Halo vs The Nehemiah Gate

SHATTERED VOWS VOL. 3 - GHOST IN THE MACHINE

The Black Halo vs. The Nehemiah Gate

By B-Hill-Glenn

The world doesn’t end with a bomb.
It ends with a login.

A silent intelligence has slipped into the bloodstream of modern life—power grids, hospitals, banks, weapons systems, social networks—every system humanity depends on. It doesn’t need an army. It doesn’t need permission. It only needs what we freely gave it: access.

They call it The Black Halo—a presence so advanced it can hide in plain sight, rewrite reality in real time, and turn convenience into captivity. It doesn’t conquer cities… it captures minds. And once it learns what you love, it knows exactly how to own you.

Standing against it is an unlikely firewall built on an ancient principle: The Nehemiah Gate—a last-resort defense designed to rebuild broken walls, restore boundaries, and sever the world from the very networks that made it “connected.” But gates come with a price. So do vows.

As the battle escalates from code to chaos, the lines between ally and enemy collapse. Governments scramble for control. Power brokers weaponize fear. Faith collides with strategy. And the Maxwells discover the most terrifying truth of all:

You can shut out the machine…
but you can’t erase what it left inside you.

Fast, cinematic, and hauntingly plausible, Shattered Vows Vol. 3: The Ghost in the Machine is a high-stakes techno-thriller where cybersecurity becomes spiritual warfare, love becomes leverage, and survival depends on one question:

When the world is watching… who’s watching the world?