The Aether Audit

About this book

In Athera, a neon-bright coastal metropolis where magic is infrastructure, citizens pay for their daily needs using minted 'Minutes'—harvested slivers of their own lifespan. Nera Kade, a chronically exhausted municipal auditor drowning in debt to keep her mother alive, discovers an impossible discrepancy in the transit system's ledgers: thousands of riders' Minutes are being secretly siphoned into a black budget called PULSE MAINTENANCE. When her attempts to report the anomaly make her a target, Nera is forced into an uneasy alliance with Sable Renn, an unlicensed aether-hacker. Together, they unravel a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the city's elite, who are draining the lifeforce of the working class to achieve immortality. To save herself and her city, Nera must weaponize the very financial systems she once trusted, executing a dangerous heist to reverse the flow of stolen time.

Book details

Genres:

Urban Fantasy, Cyberpunk Fantasy, Thriller

Language:

en

Published:

2026-03-05

Content rating:

R