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Yesterday's Price: The Chrono-Collector (Book 1)
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Series: The Chrono-Collector, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798180262929
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the neon-drenched spires of Aurum City, time isn't just money. It's life itself.
The ultra-wealthy buy centuries to maintain their youth, while the destitute of the slums are bled dry, trading the years of their lives just to pay rent. Kaelen Voss is a Chrono-Collector. Cold, efficient, and lethal, his job is to hunt down citizens who default on their time-loans and forcibly drain the remaining hours from their veins via Transfer Units. He's the best asset the Meridian Compliance Bureau has. He never asks questions. He never fails. Until today. When sent to execute a full extraction on a massive fifty-year debt, Kaelen breaks in only to find a terrified ten-year-old girl who inherited her deceased parents' deficit. If he hooks her to the extractor, she dies. For the first time in his life, his mechanical detachment shatters. Kaelen hesitates. He flips his weapon, guns down his own extraction squad, and takes the girl rogue. Now, a brutal, city-wide manhunt is underway. With his former agency tracking his every step and a rival Enforcer hot on his heels, Kaelen must use every tactical skill he possesses to smuggle the child into the lawless Dead Zones. But the girl's digital time-clock is rapidly counting down. She has exactly thirty days left to live, and the only way to save her is for a lifelong collector to pull off the ultimate time-heist.
The ultra-wealthy buy centuries to maintain their youth, while the destitute of the slums are bled dry, trading the years of their lives just to pay rent. Kaelen Voss is a Chrono-Collector. Cold, efficient, and lethal, his job is to hunt down citizens who default on their time-loans and forcibly drain the remaining hours from their veins via Transfer Units. He's the best asset the Meridian Compliance Bureau has. He never asks questions. He never fails. Until today. When sent to execute a full extraction on a massive fifty-year debt, Kaelen breaks in only to find a terrified ten-year-old girl who inherited her deceased parents' deficit. If he hooks her to the extractor, she dies. For the first time in his life, his mechanical detachment shatters. Kaelen hesitates. He flips his weapon, guns down his own extraction squad, and takes the girl rogue. Now, a brutal, city-wide manhunt is underway. With his former agency tracking his every step and a rival Enforcer hot on his heels, Kaelen must use every tactical skill he possesses to smuggle the child into the lawless Dead Zones. But the girl's digital time-clock is rapidly counting down. She has exactly thirty days left to live, and the only way to save her is for a lifelong collector to pull off the ultimate time-heist.
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