Fantasy

The Merchant of the Last Tomorrow - A Trader in Futures Sells the Day His Daughter Was Meant to Die. Someone Comes to Collect the Debt.

By Dorian Vale

Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 1,000+ voices

Try for $0.00 Get for $7.70

Length7h 50m

About this audiobook

Nine years ago, Taren Voss made the kind of bargain no father should ever have to consider. His ten-year-old daughter, Lina, was dying. The healers had failed. A priest had already heard the final narrowing of her future. Then a trader named Orven Sahr offered Taren one impossible alternative: sell the day on which Lina was supposed to die. Taren agreed. Lina survived. For nine years, he convinced himself that whatever price he had paid was worth it. Then a woman in a gray coat appears at his door carrying a plate of silver glass. On one side is the date of Lina’s death. On the other is a single word: DEBT. In Avenor, the future can be bought, sold, pledged, insured, inherited, and used as collateral. Behind ordinary trade exists a hidden economy of tomorrow - contracts written in blood, memories offered as security, rights transferred before their owners even understand what they have lost. Taren knows that world better than most. He has spent his life valuing risk and finding weaknesses in agreements. But the contract he signed for Lina is unlike anything he has ever seen. As its forgotten clauses begin to activate, the debt expands far beyond one family. Old registries open. Lost investigators return. People begin paying for obligations they barely remember signing. And beneath Avenor lies a system built from thousands of purchased futures, designed to protect the city at a cost no one was ever meant to see. To save Lina, Taren must discover what he truly sold nine years ago, who actually owns the claim, and whether a contract can demand more than its original parties ever agreed to give. But Lina is no longer the dying child whose future her father could decide for her. She is nineteen now. And this time, she intends to have a say in what happens to her tomorrow. The Merchant of the Last Tomorrow is an adult fantasy novel about magical contracts, debt, responsibility, parental fear, institutional power, and the dangerous belief that everything valuable must therefore have a price. Set in a city where probability can become property, it combines mystery, family conflict, political tension, and a rule-bound system of future trading in which every loophole has consequences. If a day can be sold, who owns everything that comes after it? And what happens when someone finally comes to collect? This publication was prepared using tools that support the creative process, including artificial intelligence solutions. The final concept, structure and editing are the responsibility of the author.

Family Dystopian Survival Mystery Alternate Universe Conspiracy Thriller Redemption Supernatural Artificial Intelligence Urban Fantasy Coming of Age Political Intrigue Chosen One Memory