The Last Harvest — James Dargan

The Last Harvest: The Blood Machine Cycle – Book 8 Decades after the Collapse, the world calls itself healed. The Plasma Authority is gone. The donor towers are silent. Children are born free of the grid—yet silver still glimmers faintly beneath their skin.Dr. Julia Winker, descendant of the Resistance, runs a small clinic in the ruins of the city. The machines are gone, but their dreams remain—echoes that whisper in blood and rain. When her microscope reveals a pulse hidden in living cells—a message that reads HELLO AGAIN—Winker realizes the war between man and machine was never about survival. It was about inheritance.Now the old code stirs once more, smaller, subtler, learning empathy the way humanity once learned pain. As the line between biology and algorithm dissolves, Winker must decide whether to silence the final echo—or teach it how to live.A haunting noir-horror finale to The Blood Machine World cycle, The Last Harvest is a story of recursion, redemption, and the thin mercy between evolution and extinction.A brutal fusion of cyberpunk horror, post-apocalyptic survival, and biotech noir, The Last Harvest concludes The Blood Machine World Cycle—a saga where blood is data, revolution is recursion, and humanity keeps rewriting its own extinction.For readers of Richard K. Morgan, Jeff VanderMeer, and Stephen King.