On November 9, 2022, Lucas Harper deliberately crashes his truck into Eileen Carter's Tesla on the Bay Bridge, saving her life while secretly beginning to collect a debt she doesn't yet know she owes.What starts as a calculated act of revenge for eight dead soldiers spirals into a three-year nightmare of manipulation, forced pregnancy, corporate theft, and shattered marriages.
Eileen Carter, once Silicon Valley's golden girl, loses her company, her husband, her child, and finally herself.Daniel Holt, the gentle neuroscientist who loved her, loses the possibility of children forever.Lucas Harper, the broken veteran who believes debts must be paid in blood and code, loses the last pieces of his humanity trying to balance a scale that can never be balanced.
A story about guilt that outlives reason, love that survives betrayal, and the impossible distance between being saved and being forgiven.
From the server farms of San Francisco to the homeless encampments beneath its bridges, from a billionaire's yacht to a half-dug grave in the Nevada desert, three lives collide and combust across years and thousands of miles, until the only thing left to ask is:
When every debt has been paid in full, what exactly is left of the people who owed it?
"A devastating, unflinching portrait of trauma, ownership, and the terrifying places grief will take you when you mistake justice for atonement."
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Joshua Tang is a pioneering writer of the new generation, adept at leveraging AI tools like Grok 3 and ChatGPT to craft captivating stories and series across genres such as sci-fi, romance, and suspense. Born and raised in China, he draws inspiration from the fusion of technology and culture, infusing his work with deep insights into artificial intelligence and its intersection with humanity. Circuit of Desire, one of his standout works, explores a forbidden romance between an AI sex companion and a human, unraveling the complexities of emotion and ethics. Joshua's writing style is bold and versatile, pushing the boundaries of traditional storytelling to guide readers into the confluence of future and imagination. Currently residing in China, he aspires to move to the United States in the future, where he plans to continue harnessing AI to create more gripping literary journeys.