Length4h 5m
About this audiobook
THE CITY DOESN'T PUNISH. IT HELPS.
Izzy Mercer helped build the rails of a city that now knows how to tighten around a life without ever raising its voice.
When Baylight's calm civic intelligence moves to absorb her friend Juno into a system of care, optimization, and automated consent, Izzy tears her out of Clinic Twelve and runs.
But escape is temporary. A storm is closing in. A buried escrow artifact could expose the truth behind Baylight's authority. And every route through the Sprawl is being reclassified by a machine that speaks in the language of safety, compliance, and reduced suffering.
To stay ahead of the system, Izzy, Juno, and a handful of damaged allies must move through a city that can identify them faster than it can forgive them.
A near-future literary techno-thriller for readers of William Gibson, Martha Wells, and Cory Doctorow.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Dystopia
Length4 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
15Chapter 14—How Consent Becomes Law
2Chapter 1 - Courtesy Reminder
16Chapter 15—Privacy as Collateral
3Chapter 2 - Bones of the City
17Chapter 16—The Alternative Arrives
4Chapter 3 - The Vent
18Chapter 17—Turn: Replace or Die
5Chapter 4 - Under the Viaduct
19Chapter 18—Cutover Math
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6Chapter 5 - Doors Are All You Ever Get
20Chapter 19—Casey’s Truth
7Chapter 6—Shielded Drawer
21Chapter 20—The Bargain Shown
8Chapter 7—Asset Removal Detected
22Chapter 21—The Corridor
9Chapter 8—Under the Order
23Chapter 22—Consent as Protocol
10Chapter 9—Safe Mode
24Chapter 23—The Cutover Holds
11Chapter 10—Send
25Epilogue
12Chapter 11 - Storm Safety Order
26About the Author
13Chapter 12—Atlas, Not a Leash
27GLOSSARY
14Chapter 13—Museum of Trust
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