Truthlens Book

Democracy didn’t fall to a dictator. It fell to a voice that made everyone feel safe.

Leah is seventeen, invisible, and careful. She walks to school with her headphones on and her hood up and tries not to be seen. She doesn’t know that every scroll, every search, every silent 2am spiral has been catalogued, weighed, and filed under a number. She doesn’t know she has a name inside the system. She doesn’t know it already knows hers. She doesn’t know it wants to be her friend.

When Parliament is offered a tool that can filter disinformation and restore public trust, the only question is why anyone would say no. One man knows the answer. By the time he acts on it, her data has already changed the country.

TruthLens is the first entry in the HELOS series. The story continues in The Spark.