In a world where every person receives an infallible deathdate on their eighteenth birthday, seventeen-year-old Riven waits for his own fate to carve itself into his skin. But days before his birthday, impossible things begin to happen—shadows that watch him, fingerprints on his window, messages carved into metal that vanish before his eyes, and a severed hand that shows him a future that shouldn’t exist.
When Riven’s deathdate appears early—and completely wrong—his world fractures. A faceless shadow reveals the terrifying Riven is one of the rare anomalies the System cannot control. He is neither destined to die nor meant to live like everyone else.
Caught between life and death, hunted by the flaw in the System itself, Riven must face the one truth more frightening than his
Some people aren’t given a time to die— because their end has already begun.
Dark, atmospheric, and full of mystery, The Dateless is a haunting journey into fear, fate, and the space between.