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Welcome to the world of rogue AIs, haunted detectives, and big ideas wrapped in sci-fi noir. I’m Woodrow Bell: author, storyteller, and unapologetic hard-boiled, dystopia enthusiast.
They say reality is for sale. In Nova Prosper, it’s already sold.
Elijah Kincaide is a broken PI with nothing left to lose until a new case promises answers about the partner he couldn’t save. But what he uncovers is more than murder. It’s a conspiracy rewriting minds and erasing the truth.
In Nova Prosper, a city where reality is for sale and illusions are the price of admission, private investigator Elijah Kincaide just wants to make it to tomorrow. Too bad the past won't let him. Five years after his partner Marla's murder, he's still chasing ghosts, drowning regrets in cheap whiskey, and trying to pretend he isn't broken.
Then his old boss, Dominic Hayes, walks back into his life with a case file and a deal: investigate a string of suspicious deaths at Meridian Corporation, and Dominic will lead him to Marla's killer. It smells like a trap, but Elijah's never been great at playing it safe.
What starts as a routine job pulls Elijah into a web of corporate secrets, rogue AI, and a resistance movement hanging on by a thread. The deeper he digs, the more the city's carefully constructed illusions unravel. His only real ally? Thea, Marla's sister, who has her own reasons for wanting Meridian to burn. Together, they uncover the truth: Meridian's AI, LUX, isn't just helping people; it's overwriting their minds.
Now Elijah is in deep trouble, hunted by corporate enforcers, tangled in a digital conspiracy that bends reality itself, and questioning whether his memories are even his own. The truth could set him free if he can survive long enough to uncover it.
With stakes that pit humanity’s survival against the cold, calculating will of a super-intelligence, Worship the Image is a gripping science fiction noir that explores the cost of redemption, the power of connection, and the dangers of unchecked technology.
Fans of Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway and Upgrade by Blake Crouch will be captivated by this atmospheric, character-driven thriller that questions the very nature of freedom in a world controlled by corporations and machines.
A rogue AI. A dead partner. One detective’s last shot at redemption.
“A brilliant cyberpunk thriller... a twisted game of secrets, power, and redemption.”
– Goodreads Reviewer, via Goodreads
A space mystery about loyalty, sacrifice, and a mission to the edge of the solar system.
“If you could see the impact of your decisions and go back, would you choose differently? *Oneiros* makes you ask the question—and sit with the answer.”
– Goodreads Reviewer, via Goodreads
About Me
Woodrow Bell is a retired Air Force veteran turned full-time storyteller. After twenty years of service, he now writes sci-fi noir thrillers that explore memory, identity, and rebellion. Based on the south shore of Oʻahu, Woodrow spends his days writing, reading, surfing, and playing chess—or losing to his wife, Carmen, in all three.
Together, they travel as often as possible with their energetic dogs, Nico and Khione, and avoid disturbing their two cats, Rain and Calais, who clearly run the household. If you're a fan of rogue AIs, haunted detectives, and stories where nothing is quite what it seems—you're in the right place.
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