Unwritten Code

In the pristine city of Nexum, your life is a line of code written at birth. Every thought is monitored, every future assigned. Sixteen-year-old Soren Reid never questioned the system's perfection. He had no reason to-until Assessment Day.

Designated an "Anomaly," Soren discovers his mind is a glitch in the city's programming. He catches the flaws everyone else misses-the hairline cracks in the system's logic and the whisperings of rebellion. The system's promise of order shatters, revealing that "recalibration" is not correction, it is erasure. And the hunters are coming for him.

His only hope lies in the very imperfections Nexum seeks to destroy: the decaying outer sectors, the forbidden archives, and the rebels who call the darkness home. As he unearths the truth of Project Nightingale, he finds himself on a collision course with the system's architect, the chillingly serene Varek Nocturne, a man who believes perfection is worth any price.

The same system that wants to erase Soren now has its eyes on his younger brother, Noah. To save him, Soren must embrace the broken code of his own mind. But in a city that can predict his every move, can he dismantle a perfect world before he and everyone he loves are simply... deleted?