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The Zero Point
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The danger isn't false belief. It's the absolute absence of doubt.
Beatriz Bea Calloway is an archivist who lives by a strict personal policy: she never speaks a single word she doesn't fully believe to be true. Born from a devastating childhood mistake, her rigid honesty has shaped her entire quiet life. But when her perfect record flags her in a global communications sweep, a shadow government task force arrives at her door with an impossible revelation.
Out of four hundred million subjects, Bea is the only true zero-a fixed baseline whose stated words completely align with her physiological and psychological reality.
Recruited by Dr. Marcus Wren, the idealistic architect of a truth-calibration system called Veritas, Bea is pulled into a high-stakes geopolitical border crisis. The world believes they have built a machine to catch deepfakes and political lies. What they don't know is that the system doesn't track objective reality-it bends reality to match the unbreakable conviction of its anchor.
As the world's data begins to reshape itself around Bea's memories and passing thoughts, history itself starts to drift. Old photographs alter, census lines rewrite themselves, and dead archives rewrite the past. When Wren presents her with an agonizing choice-to retroactively erase an international atrocity and save the sister she lost years ago-Bea realizes that perfect certainty is a destructive force. To stop a machine that is unraveling history, she must face the hardest task of all: learning how to choose uncertainty.
The Zero Point is a literary speculative thriller that explores the delicate seams between data, memory, and the crushing burden of being the only person who remembers the true past.
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