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Household Stability
Paperback
Series: The Veyr Cycle, Book 3
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Nikola Muckajev
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 374
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Veyr, a household is not a family. It is a system of assigned roles, measured functions, and officially recorded dependencies.
Liora Sen has spent years evaluating whether citizens can live safely without intervention. Her own solitary household is considered perfectly stable. But when she is assigned to review the Orrel family, she encounters a home that should not work according to any approved model.
The Orrels survive through improvised care. Responsibilities shift without authorization. Children remember what adults forget. Temporary arrangements become permanent, and every apparent failure conceals another person quietly keeping the household intact.
To preserve the family, Liora must prove that their disorder is not dysfunction but resilience. Her solution, Protective Role Redundancy, could give Veyr a new way to recognize the invisible work that holds people together.
It could also teach the city how to measure that work, distribute it, and watch it more closely than ever before.
As Liora's method spreads beyond the Orrels, its benefits become inseparable from its costs. Households are preserved, private sacrifices become public evidence, and the distinction between protection and surveillance grows dangerously thin.
Household Stability is the third book in The Veyr Cycle, a literary dystopian series about bureaucracy, moral compromise, and the quiet human lives trapped inside official systems.
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