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The Widow Protocol
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 27 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When a dead tech founder appears to blink during his own viral funeral, Theo Mercer knows something is terribly wrong.
Theo, a former crisis negotiator, has spent his life learning how to read people under pressure. But nothing prepares him for what follows his husband Arlen's death.
A hidden clause in Arlen's revised will ties Theo's intimate life to a secret archive containing predictive behavioral models and sensitive intelligence. If Theo enters a new marriage, partnership, or qualifying household arrangement, the archive will automatically begin releasing its contents.
But the clause is only the beginning.
As Theo tries to protect his son, Justice, he discovers that the machinery surrounding Arlen's company has been watching them for years. People inside the organization are manipulating events, legal systems are being weaponized, and someone has already selected the person they believe can be placed beside Theo at the perfect moment.
Meanwhile, Niall Rourke, a former insider with his own connection to Arlen, knows that the funeral glitch was no accident. The blinking image was designed to flush hidden players into the open-but the plan has triggered forces far beyond anyone's control.
Now Theo must uncover the truth before grief, technology, and corporate power turn his private life into the key that unlocks something much larger.
Because the machine isn't simply predicting what people will do.
It is learning how to make them do it.
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