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In the near future, governments have been replaced by corporations, laboratories, and invisible elites who administer humanity through a global project known as the New Babylon.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