In a society bound by nine unbreakable rules, every second of your life is timed, tracked, and watched by the government. One day, you’re accused of breaking a rule you never touched, and the surveillance footage has been altered to prove it. To clear your name, you must uncover who is rewriting the rules—and why no one is allowed to leave the designated area alive....

The stale air of the abandoned warehouse hung heavy, thick with the scent of damp concrete and forgotten rust. Moonlight, a fractured kaleidoscope through the grimy panes of a single, high window, cast spectral patterns across the cold floor, painting Elias’s face in stark relief. His arm, a conduit of trembling tension, held the hilt of the knife, its polished steel catching the pale luminescence...