Making A Billion Was Your First Mistake
What if earning a billion dollars didn’t make you powerful—
it made you prey?
When Congress passes the Capped Earnings Act, every billionaire on Earth suddenly faces a terrifying new reality: the moment your net worth hits one billion dollars, you are forbidden—by law—to earn another dime. No loopholes. No hidden accounts. No second chances.
For rising tech CEO Kyrel Kade, the law should have been a theoretical problem.
Until the morning he reaches a billion.
Within hours, Kyrel’s world detonates. Investors turn. Friends vanish. And the quiet, invisible empire that has always operated in the shadows—the one that believes it is untouchable—finally steps into the light.
Now Kyrel is trapped and the government wants to make an example of him.
His only ally?
A cynical investigative journalist who is a systems hacker with a gift for divine chaos as well as a financial detective who sees patterns everyone else misses.
As his world dissolves around him, Kyle discovers a truth more dangerous than the law itself: someone is manipulating the entire system—and they need him silenced.
To survive, he must outmaneuver a global network that rewrites the rules of power… while living under a legal regime designed to ensure he has nothing left to fight with.
Because in the new economy, hitting a billion isn’t the end of the game.
It’s the beginning of the hunt.
Perfect for fans of Mark Greaney, Daniel Suarez, Blake Crouch, and political thrillers with teeth, CAPPED is a razor-sharp, high-tension novel about money, morality, and what happens when society finally says “enough.”
