EXCHANGE: Life as Currency by Harondo Evans

Life as Currency

Humanity solved every crisis.

Disease disappeared.

Hunger became history.

Wars grew rare.

People lived longer than anyone had dreamed.

There was only one cost.

Life itself became the world's currency.

Every purchase.

Every promotion.

Every luxury.

Every mistake.

Was paid for in years.

For most people, tomorrow became something they could barely afford.

For the wealthy...

death became optional.

Arden Locke has spent her life surviving one day at a time, haunted by memories that were never meant to survive. When a dying friend places a stolen data chip in her hands, she uncovers a secret buried beneath more than a century of carefully manufactured history.

The system that transformed civilization was never built to save everyone.

It was built to decide who was worth saving.

As governments fracture, artificial intelligences begin asking questions their creators never anticipated, and the architects of humanity's future prepare to abandon the world they engineered, Arden finds herself holding the only choice no machine can make.

Not whether civilization survives.

But what it means to be human.

Because some revolutions aren't fought with weapons.

They're fought with the future itself.

EXCHANGE: Life as Currency is a thought-provoking science fiction thriller about power, sacrifice, artificial intelligence, and the price of believing that every life can be measured.