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Capped: Making a Billion Was Your First Mistake
Making A Billion Was Your First Mistake
What if earning a billion dollars didn’t make you all-powerful?
It made you prey.
When Congress passes the Capped Earnings Act, every successful entrepreneur suddenly faces a terrifying new the moment your net worth hits one billion dollars, you are forbidden—by law—to earn another dime. No loopholes. No hidden accounts. No second chances.
For rising tech genius and inventor Kyrel Kade, the law should have been a theoretical problem.
Until the morning he unexpectedly reaches a billion— long before he had planned
Within hours of becoming the youngest billionaire ever, Kyrel’s world is stolen from him. Now Kyrel is trapped and the government wants to make an example of him. His only allies? A cynical investigative journalist who sees patterns everyone else misses and Kyrel’s wife D’Andra who makes sense of the patterns.
As his world dissolves around him, Kade discovers a truth more dangerous than the law Someone is manipulating the entire system—and that someone wants him silenced.
To survive, Kade must outmaneuver an unseen enemy that rewrites the rules of power in real time; while living under a legal regime designed to ensure he has nothing left to fight with.
Because in the new economy, hitting a billion isn’t the end of the game.
It’s the beginning of the hunt.
Perfect for fans of Mark Greaney, Daniel Suarez, Blake Crouch, and political thrillers with teeth, CAPPED is a razor-sharp, high-tension novel about money, morality, and what goes wrong when society finally says “enough.”
What if earning a billion dollars didn’t make you all-powerful?
It made you prey.
When Congress passes the Capped Earnings Act, every successful entrepreneur suddenly faces a terrifying new the moment your net worth hits one billion dollars, you are forbidden—by law—to earn another dime. No loopholes. No hidden accounts. No second chances.
For rising tech genius and inventor Kyrel Kade, the law should have been a theoretical problem.
Until the morning he unexpectedly reaches a billion— long before he had planned
Within hours of becoming the youngest billionaire ever, Kyrel’s world is stolen from him. Now Kyrel is trapped and the government wants to make an example of him. His only allies? A cynical investigative journalist who sees patterns everyone else misses and Kyrel’s wife D’Andra who makes sense of the patterns.
As his world dissolves around him, Kade discovers a truth more dangerous than the law Someone is manipulating the entire system—and that someone wants him silenced.
To survive, Kade must outmaneuver an unseen enemy that rewrites the rules of power in real time; while living under a legal regime designed to ensure he has nothing left to fight with.
Because in the new economy, hitting a billion isn’t the end of the game.
It’s the beginning of the hunt.
Perfect for fans of Mark Greaney, Daniel Suarez, Blake Crouch, and political thrillers with teeth, CAPPED is a razor-sharp, high-tension novel about money, morality, and what goes wrong when society finally says “enough.”
482 pages, Hardcover
Published December 8, 2025
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About the author
Susan Trott
10 books1 followerSusan Trott is a Canadian author whose work spans visionary eco-fiction, science fiction, cozy romance, memoir, and myth-infused nature writing. Through her independent imprint Tagger Press, she creates stories that explore the quiet magic of the natural world, the resilience of ordinary people, and the threads of meaning that connect past and future.
She is the author of The Oak Witness, King of Dams, CAPPED, Escape, The Cedar Hollow Series: Snowfall in Cedar Hollow, The Undelivered Roses, and Noínín's Wish.
Her writing blends emotional depth with imaginative world-building — from near-future thrillers to ancient alien civilizations to gentle, heartwarming tales of small-town life.
A lifelong animal guardian and dedicated “cat lady,” she lives with her husband Jim and a multigenerational feline family in Ottawa, where fresh snow, koi ponds, and the quiet presence of trees often find their way into her stories.
She is the author of The Oak Witness, King of Dams, CAPPED, Escape, The Cedar Hollow Series: Snowfall in Cedar Hollow, The Undelivered Roses, and Noínín's Wish.
Her writing blends emotional depth with imaginative world-building — from near-future thrillers to ancient alien civilizations to gentle, heartwarming tales of small-town life.
A lifelong animal guardian and dedicated “cat lady,” she lives with her husband Jim and a multigenerational feline family in Ottawa, where fresh snow, koi ponds, and the quiet presence of trees often find their way into her stories.
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