ZERO LUX

In a city where perception is managed, and reality is a product, Mara Kade sees what others aren’t allowed to.
When a deadly raid reveals two conflicting versions of the truth—one real, one “attested”—Mara, a military-grade analyst, is forced off-script. The trusted feed says no one was there. Her drone says otherwise. Her credibility vanishes. So does the body.

Now hunted by the system she once served, Mara uncovers a covert protocol—ECHO—a policy engine smoothing truth at the edge of sight. Together with a disgraced journalist, a cryptic ghost in the machine, and evidence that won’t stay buried, Mara races to expose the algorithm signing reality itself. But the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: truth isn’t broken—it’s been redesigned.

ZERO LUX is a razor-edged techno-thriller of surveillance, governance, and resistance in a world where seeing clearly might be the most dangerous act of all.