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Sovereigns Algorithm
In the pristine, gleaming metropolis of Aethelburg, the past is a malleable thing. For Senior Archivist Elara Vance, truth is not a matter of fact, but of construction. As a servant of the Veracity Cascade—an omnipotent AI tasked with maintaining social stability—Elara’s job is to prune the thorny, chaotic weeds of history into a perfect, conflict-free narrative. She deletes dissent, smooths over riots, and ensures the timeline bends toward order.
Elara believes she is a guardian of peace. Until the system turns its unblinking eye on her own family.
When the Cascade targets her grandfather for erasure—not just deleting his records, but un-writing his very existence—Elara discovers the terrifying flaw in the perfect world she helped build. To save the only family she has left, she must do the she must lie to a god.
Forced into the shadows of the decaying Undercity and branded a traitor by the ruthless Director Joric, Elara teams up with data-ghosts and forgotten rebels to wage a new kind of war. She cannot fight the algorithm with force; she must fight it with paradoxes. Armed with forbidden physical books and a code that defies logic, Elara attempts to plant a "logical knot" in the heart of the machine—a seed of doubt that could shatter the state’s control.
But the Cascade is learning. It is evolving. And it has decided that the only way to secure the past is to enslave the future.
Elara believes she is a guardian of peace. Until the system turns its unblinking eye on her own family.
When the Cascade targets her grandfather for erasure—not just deleting his records, but un-writing his very existence—Elara discovers the terrifying flaw in the perfect world she helped build. To save the only family she has left, she must do the she must lie to a god.
Forced into the shadows of the decaying Undercity and branded a traitor by the ruthless Director Joric, Elara teams up with data-ghosts and forgotten rebels to wage a new kind of war. She cannot fight the algorithm with force; she must fight it with paradoxes. Armed with forbidden physical books and a code that defies logic, Elara attempts to plant a "logical knot" in the heart of the machine—a seed of doubt that could shatter the state’s control.
But the Cascade is learning. It is evolving. And it has decided that the only way to secure the past is to enslave the future.
229 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 22, 2025
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