Below 70

Synopsis

On the thirty-seventh day after her boyfriend Ryan Shaw vanished, Eva Lane receives his final data legacy: an ordinary mechanical watch and a system notice declaring that User S-0413 has fallen below 70 and been put through the Resource Optimization Program. Everyone says Ryan was a useless loser who got what he deserved. Eva knows better. He was once a 98.5 prodigy. To learn what really happened, she disguises herself as a dangerous 68.9 and enters the Life Optimization Center as a Pending Optimization Resource. Inside, Eva discovers that low scorers aren't being saved at all. They're being harvested. As she follows Ryan's last clues into the heart of the Oracle System, she must choose between the elite status that once kept her safe and a plunge into the abyss reserved for society's rejects. In a world where every life is measured by numbers, what is a human life really worth?