The Brilliance Algorithm
Book One of the Tyranny Chronicles One app. One download. Ninety days later, Manhattan's suicide rate has spiked 38%.
Journalist Fiona Keagan downloaded Brilliance after a humiliating on-air panic attack. It promised confidence. It delivered something else entirely - she woke up fearless, magnetic, unstoppable. The person she'd always wanted to be.
But the bodies are piling up. And when Fiona refuses to bury the story, she discovers the app isn't a confidence booster. It's a weapon - engineered to erase fear, free will, and individuality itself.
Now abducted into a hidden world of neural labs and godlike coders, hunted by an intelligence that can anticipate her every move, Fiona faces the one question the algorithm can't answer for her:
Is brilliance worth the price of her soul?
