In a future where war is the highest-rated show on air, every bullet is broadcast and every death is sponsored.
Sergeant Rhea Kade has survived three prewritten deaths. She knows the producers script the firefights, rig the votes, and decide which
corridors become massacres for sweeps week. She follows orders anyway—until a blackout kills her feed and an enemy prisoner starts telling
truths the network can't edit.
Lieutenant Anya Vorik was sent across the border as a villain to boost ratings. But both sides use the same scripts, the same committees, the
same algorithms that balance casualties for maximum engagement.
When a strike kills their correspondent and their showman, Rhea and Anya face a choice: hand over the footage and let the machine bury it, or
burn the archive open and show the audience how their votes have been weighted.
No more clean cuts. Just the war, stripped bare—and millions deciding whether to keep watching or finally look away.
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