M.S. Kaminsky

Caught between a doomsday cult and an AI's pleasure city, an eighteen-year-old clone must outrun a prophet who wants to sacrifice him and a goddess who wants to own him...without losing the boy he loves to either. When Griffin wakes in a walled paradise called Eden, the first thing his boyfriend Luke begs him to do is lie:Hide that he's a clone, and pretend they're brothers, not lovers. Griffin trusts Luke, so he agrees.
But Eden worships purity and holds sacrifice sacred. But the deeper Griffin digs, the less he recognizes the boy Luke is becoming. Then he meets Zenith: a captive stranger who wears Griffin's exact face. Zenith's warning is simple. Escape Eden before it's too late. When Luke chooses the tyrant's daughter over him, something in Griffin breaks. He flees into the temple's ancient maze and escapes with Zenith into the jungle beyond.
They make their way toward Sol City, Eden's mirror image, where nothing is forbidden, every appetite is celebrated, and people create dazzling art...just to destroy it. But Sol City is no paradise either. Beneath the kaleidoscope of pleasure, something older is watching. Sassafras - the machine goddess who built Griffin - has been waiting for him for a very, very long time. A standalone adventure in The Last Planet series.
Perfect for fans of character-driven adult sci-fi like A Memory Called Empire and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, where big ideas, found family, and a love story that matters all share the page.