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She was trained to find errors. Now she's become one. In the perfect society of the Mandate, Adjudicator Lyra Cassel maintains order by processing the final reputational accounts of the deceased, transforming messy human lives into clean, quantifiable legacies. Her world is one of absolute certainty, where benevolent AIs ensure justice and the Kudos system rewards virtue with mathematical precision. But when Lyra discovers a single, impossible data point in the file of celebrated sculptor Joric Orlan (a man who supposedly died of despair while his brain scans show pure terror), she uncovers...

The silence on Mars wasn't peace. It was an architecture of fear. In the meticulously engineered Martian colony, five hundred of humanity’s brightest minds have built a perfect, sterile world, a world terrified of the chaos that once brought Earth to its knees. Social architect Sofia Serrano sees this silence not as safety, but as a sickness. To save their fledgling society from its own soul-crushing perfection, she initiates a radical experiment: a "Structured Partnership" designed to force connection through high-stakes collaboration. Her first test case is the colony's biggest ...

The Karpov Bridge is the last artery out of the besieged city of Dnipro, and Captain Viktor Radek, a commander haunted by past failures, has just been given an impossible order: hold it at all costs. His command is a fractured collection of survivors: a disillusioned American ex-Marine with a history of mistrusting command , a guilt-ridden Polish medic who has already lost everything in the war , and a street-smart teenage artist whose graffiti reveals more than military intelligence. Their mission is compromised before it even begins when the explosives wired to the bridge are expertly ...