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Breathless: The Currency of Life
Paperback
Series: Breathless, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 26 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every life begins with a finite number of breaths.
No one knows how many they are given-only that one day, they will run out.
Dr. Elara Quinn is a leading scientist when she helps uncover a truth long dismissed as myth: breath itself is the true measure of life. Not age. Not illness. Breath.
When this discovery leads to the creation of a machine capable of transferring breath from one person to another, the world is changed overnight.
Lives are extended.
Death is delayed.
And breath becomes the most valuable currency humanity has ever known.
As cities reorganize around this new economy of survival, Elara begins to see the cost of what she has helped create. A system meant to save lives begins to decide which lives matter more. Exhaustion spreads. Inequality deepens. And somewhere beneath the flawless logic of redistribution, something deeply human is being suffocated.
Haunted by personal loss and driven by growing unease, Elara is forced to confront a question no one else dares to ask:
If life can be measured, traded, and controlled-who gets to decide how it is spent?
Breathless: The Currency of Life is a haunting, thought-provoking work of speculative fiction exploring power, grief, and survival in a world where even the air you breathe no longer belongs to you.
Perfect for readers of literary science fiction, dystopian futures, and morally complex storytelling.
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