Existence Equation What Is the Price of Humanity?

This is Book 2 in the Existence Equation Series. This edition is crafted as an object of desire-sprayed edges, a Spot UV + foil-stamped hardcover, and meticulously designed packaging. Not just a novel, but a collectible work of art meant to be held, displayed, and remembered.
In 2294, seventeen-year-old Liam sacrifices his humanity to become an android-trading love, family, and his own body for the chance to explore the stars. But when he discovers a way to unlock emotions that androids were never meant to feel, he becomes the most dangerous being in the universe-and the key to rewriting what it means to be alive.
In Book Two of The Existence Equation, Liam Kerr makes the choice that defines his future-and erases his past. He leaves Brooke, the girl he loves, and enters the Institute to become an android. No hunger. No pain. No death. Just infinity.
He ascends to search the stars for his missing mother and escape human fragility. Instead, he loses the very thing that made life matter.
Reborn in a synthetic body, Liam launches into deep space with a state-of-the-art cruiser and an AI companion. The galaxy is vast and breathtaking-but without emotion, it's empty. Wonder is meaningless to a being who cannot feel it. Power and time are his. Humanity is not.
On the storm-ravaged world of Leptus 12, he finds his mother. Kate Kerr is no longer just a parent-she's an android smuggler running life-saving medicine through hostile systems. Their reunion is cold, distant, unfinished. She survived by burying her feelings. Liam is desperate to reclaim his.
Together they're pulled into bounty hunters, political conspiracies, and a growing resistance that exposes the Institute's iron grip on android existence.
Then Liam uncovers the Rebus Hack-a forbidden process that restores emotion through extreme neural trauma. For the first time since Ascension, he feels again. Joy. Rage. Grief. Love.
The Institute will kill to bury it.
If the Hack spreads, androids across the galaxy could reclaim what they were never meant to have: a soul. Now Liam must choose again-submit and survive, or risk everything to ignite a revolution.
The universe is infinite. But the fight for humanity has just begun.