The Expiration Date (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798275242539)

The future is efficient, optimized, and absolutely certain of when you should die.

Elara Voss has always kept her head down and her profile low. In a city where every choice feeds an all seeing Algorithm, the safest thing you can do is blend in and follow the rules. Everything changes the day she receives her official Expiration Notice. Her time is almost up.

The system reduces her life to a cold breakdown of numbers. Low reproductive value. Moderate social influence. Rising risk of noncompliance. The message is simple. Elara has thirty one days left to live.

Elara refuses to accept the future the Algorithm assigns her.

Forced into an uneasy alliance with Jonah Hale, a former compliance analyst who once helped justify Expirations like hers, Elara begins to dig past the polished dashboards and public metrics into the shadows no one is meant to see.

Together they uncover:

• Quietly edited records and vanished appeal files
• A black market that trades stolen time
• Hidden behavior flags that seal a person's fate
• A resistance network targeting the chips inside every citizen

As the countdown clock ticks toward zero, Elara races to protect her daughter, expose the truth behind the Algorithm, and steal back the time the system already claimed. Failure means erasure. Success means starting a fire the authorities may never contain.

The Expiration Date is a tense, character driven dystopian thriller perfect for fans of near future resistance stories, algorithmic control, and the dangerous idea that some lives are worth more than others.