ARC

About the Book

What if the world didn't steal your freedom?

What if it simply convinced you to give it away?

In a society built on order, emotions are no longer just felt. They’re extracted, measured, and traded as commodities. It’s not a system of control; it’s a system of consent. That's what makes it so hard to see—until someone notices the numbers don't add up.

When a quiet data analyst stumbles upon discrepancies that shouldn't exist, at first, it looks like an error, then a pattern. What begins as a routine investigation slowly unravels into something far more disturbing: the system isn't only taking what people choose to give. Instead, it has deliberately been taking more, long before anyone agreed to it. As hidden ledgers surface, forgotten memories resurface, and impossible truths refuse to stay buried, the data analyst finds himself standing at the edge of everything he once believed was true. Although obedience has kept him safe, rebellion might cost him everything—including the parts of himself he doesn't yet know are missing.

ARC is a sci-fi thriller about memory, identity, free will, and the cost of a perfectly ordered world where the greatest danger isn't what's taken, but what its people are convinced to surrender.

About the Author

Krish Jha believes every feeling—hope, fear, love, guilt, curiosity, and even silence carries a story inside it, waiting for someone to listen closely enough to hear it. Krish writes with the desire to leave something behind that stays with his readers long after the last page is turned. ARC is his debut novel.