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Breathless: The Quiet Divide
Paperback
Series: Breathless, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 19 2026
Pages: 498
Weight: 1.26
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Breath is no longer a gift. It's infrastructure.
The system Elara Quinn created was meant to save lives.
Instead, it reshaped the world.
The Breath Essence Extractor-once a desperate solution to tragedy-has become the backbone of civilization. Lifespans are extended. Death is predictable. Stability is engineered.
But balance has a cost.
As breath is redistributed across cities, something unseen begins to fracture. Exhaustion spreads where it shouldn't. Recoveries don't hold. Lives lengthen for some-and shorten for others.
And someone is watching.
From hospital corridors and forgotten systems, a quiet resistance gathers. They see the gaps. They track the losses. They understand what the data refuses to say.
Breath is being taken.
Not saved.
As Elara pushes the limits of what her invention can do, she must confront a question more dangerous than death itself:
Who decides how long a life is worth?
In the explosive third installment of the Breathless trilogy, loyalty fractures, systems turn predatory, and the cost of control becomes impossible to ignore.
Because once breath becomes currency...
Someone will always decide who gets to spend it.
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