The Glass Arena

In the gleaming glass towers of Corporate Central, the system is absolute. Every citizen is an asset, every action is a data point, and the Corporate Games are the ultimate performance review. For fifty years, this televised spectacle has identified the best and brightest from the twelve industrial Sectors, elevating the worthy to a life of corporate luxury. But the Games have a darker purpose. For Dominic Reid, a factory worker from the perpetually smog-covered Sector Seven, survival is a matter of efficiency and keeping his head down.
But when both he and his brilliant sister, Lena, are selected as tributes for the 50th Semicentennial Games, he knows their potential has been flagged not for promotion, but for removal. Thrown into a high-tech arena where every move is monitored and every alliance is temporary, Dominic discovers the horrifying truth: the Games aren't about finding talent. They're about "processing" it. Winners aren't just promoted; they are reprogrammed, their minds rewritten to become perfect corporate assets.
The losers are simply eliminated. Armed with a hidden schematic of the arena and a cryptic message from a growing resistance, Dominic must navigate a deadly competition against tributes trained in combat, strategy, and corporate espionage. To save himself and his sister, he must do more than just survive-he must break the game itself and broadcast the unfiltered truth to a civilization built on lies.
But in the Glass Arena, the only thing more dangerous than the competition is the truth.