A coin. A machine that can rewrite reality. A child born from stitched timelines. Vincent Reed's choices alter the city's ledger-and unleash a bureaucratic force that preserves order by quietly erasing the edges. When a fragile girl named Mara is created from merged continuities, the team's victory proves costly: elsewhere, people vanish. Idealists, pragmatists, and officials collide over whether to centralize the power to choose.
Do you protect some by design-or protect everyone by refusing the machine? If you like idea-driven science fiction with moral stakes, tense alliances, and a simmering political thriller at its core, this is the book for you.
A coin. A machine that can rewrite reality. A child born from stitched timelines. Vincent Reed's choices alter the city's ledger-and unleash a bureaucratic force that preserves order by quietly erasing the edges. When a fragile girl named Mara is created from merged continuities, the team's victory proves costly: elsewhere, people vanish. Idealists, pragmatists, and officials collide over whether to centralize the power to choose.
Do you protect some by design-or protect everyone by refusing the machine? If you like idea-driven science fiction with moral stakes, tense alliances, and a simmering political thriller at its core, this is the book for you.