Every lucky break has a reason. Nathan Carter just hasn’t been asking what it is.
A government analyst with a steady career and a family he loves, Nathan has never had cause to look too closely at his own good fortune. Then an AI glitch and a stranger crack the surface — and what’s underneath is unsettling and impossible to unsee.
Nathan can accept the life he’s been given and never ask another question. Or he can refuse to stop asking.
A near-future literary thriller about free will, identity, and the cost of knowing who you really are.
For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro, Ted Chiang, and Blake Crouch.









