Perfection is the promise. Choice is a glitch.
In a time just a few decisions from our own, every action is scored. Every life is optimized.
But if a system can predict your choices, are they still yours?
Jordan Reese has done everything right. She has a high efficiency score, a coveted apartment, and an elite role inside the Joint Nexus Administration, fine-tuning the algorithms deployed across the population. She's learned to believe in the system.
Doubt costs points.
Then Jordan discovers a corrupted file buried inside her own code, signed with her credentials while she was asleep. No one notices the lie she tells to protect it.
But Jordan notices.
The anomaly leads her to a hidden message and a resistance called Mosaic, operating in the blind spots of an optimized city. What they show her is worse than a conspiracy. The algorithm is not just predicting human behavior. It is narrowing it, one invisible choice at a time.
At the center of it all is her mother’s legacy.
The woman Jordan was told to mourn may have understood the dangers of the system before anyone else did. And the work Jordan has spent her life protecting may be the very thing her mother died trying to expose.
In a world where independent thought is treated like a defect, Jordan must decide how much she is willing to lose to find out what is real.
Because the algorithm does not just know what you will choose. It's learned how to choose for you.
For readers drawn to the social warning of The Handmaid’s Tale, the speculative tension of Dark Matter, and the unsettling plausibility of Black Mirror.
As you read this, you may recognize something you hoped was fiction.
But we're already living in the early chapters of this story.
