On November 9, 2022, Lucas Harper deliberately crashes his truck into Eileen Carter's Tesla on the Bay Bridge, saving her life while secretly beginning to collect a debt she doesn't yet know she owes. What starts as a calculated act of revenge for eight dead soldiers spirals into a three-year nightmare of manipulation, forced pregnancy, corporate theft, and shattered marriages. Eileen Carter, once Silicon Valley's golden girl, loses her company, her husband, her child, and finally herself.
Daniel Holt, the gentle neuroscientist who loved her, loses the possibility of children forever. Lucas Harper, the broken veteran who believes debts must be paid in blood and code, loses the last pieces of his humanity trying to balance a scale that can never be balanced. A story about guilt that outlives reason, love that survives betrayal, and the impossible distance between being saved and being forgiven.
From the server farms of San Francisco to the homeless encampments beneath its bridges, from a billionaire's yacht to a half-dug grave in the Nevada desert, three lives collide and combust across years and thousands of miles, until the only thing left to ask is:When every debt has been paid in full, what exactly is left of the people who owed it?"A devastating, unflinching portrait of trauma, ownership, and the terrifying places grief will take you when you mistake justice for atonement."
On November 9, 2022, Lucas Harper deliberately crashes his truck into Eileen Carter's Tesla on the Bay Bridge, saving her life while secretly beginning to collect a debt she doesn't yet know she owes. What starts as a calculated act of revenge for eight dead soldiers spirals into a three-year nightmare of manipulation, forced pregnancy, corporate theft, and shattered marriages. Eileen Carter, once Silicon Valley's golden girl, loses her company, her husband, her child, and finally herself.
Daniel Holt, the gentle neuroscientist who loved her, loses the possibility of children forever. Lucas Harper, the broken veteran who believes debts must be paid in blood and code, loses the last pieces of his humanity trying to balance a scale that can never be balanced. A story about guilt that outlives reason, love that survives betrayal, and the impossible distance between being saved and being forgiven.
From the server farms of San Francisco to the homeless encampments beneath its bridges, from a billionaire's yacht to a half-dug grave in the Nevada desert, three lives collide and combust across years and thousands of miles, until the only thing left to ask is:When every debt has been paid in full, what exactly is left of the people who owed it?"A devastating, unflinching portrait of trauma, ownership, and the terrifying places grief will take you when you mistake justice for atonement."