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The Scarcity Protocol: A Story of Time Rights, Political Control, and Hidden Cost
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Time is no longer something you spend.
It is something you are allowed.
In Vey Harbor, the past is regulated.
The continuance grid-an infrastructure buried beneath the city-allows carefully approved jumps backward in time. Hours can be granted. Days must be justified. Weeks are almost never permitted. Every request is reviewed, every outcome recorded, every second accounted for.
Mara Voss has built her career inside that system.
As a senior compliance attorney, she enforces the rules that keep the city stable. She does not question who deserves more time-only whether their case fits within the law. It is a clean distinction. One she has relied on for years.
Until the records stop agreeing.
A denied request quietly reappears as approved. A maintenance anomaly suggests the system is drawing more power than it should. A civilian insists an entire day has been erased-not lost, but deliberately removed.
At first, these are procedural inconsistencies.
Then they begin to form a pattern.
As Mara is pulled deeper-toward unauthorized jump sites, hidden political exemptions, and witnesses who remember what the system claims never happened-she uncovers a truth the city has kept carefully buried:
Time travel is not just controlled.
It is being used.
And every use is costing something the public has never been told.
Now the law she has spent her life defending stands in direct conflict with reality itself.
And the closer she gets to the protocol at the center of it all, the clearer the stakes become:
The system is not breaking.
It is working exactly as intended.
A sharp, intelligent dystopian thriller about power, scarcity, and the quiet mechanisms that decide who gets to keep their future.
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