{"product_id":"the-expiration-date-draco-blaze-9798275242539","title":"The Expiration Date","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe future is efficient, optimized, and absolutely certain of when you should die.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElara 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElara refuses to accept the future the Algorithm assigns her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForced 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTogether they uncover: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuietly edited records and vanished appeal files\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA black market that trades stolen time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHidden behavior flags that seal a person's fate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA resistance network targeting the chips inside every citizen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Expiration Date\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Draco Blaze\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798275242539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Draco Blaze","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170853921023,"sku":"9798275242539","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-expiration-date-draco-blaze-9798275242539","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}