Investigative journalist Nyxa Vale has spent years exposing systems built to control people. Then a funeral notice bearing her name appears beneath her apartment door, followed by a message no device can erase: YOU HAVE 24 HOURS LEFT.



A countdown spreads from her shattered smartwatch to billboards, traffic networks, police channels, and every screen across the city. Minutes later, a dying whistleblower arrives with evidence that Aeternum, a behavioral technology giant, has created Terminal Forecasting, a system capable of predicting death with impossible accuracy.



But Aeternum does more than foresee fatal outcomes. It manipulates streets, emergency services, communications, and human fear until its predictions become unavoidable. Now Nyxa is its newest subject, and every attempt to escape gives the system more information about how she thinks.



Hunted through flooded tunnels and abandoned observation chambers, Nyxa joins damaged survivors who have already lived through their own forecasts. To outlast the countdown, she must resist every logical choice, uncover why her behavior threatens Aeternum's model, and expose an archive powerful enough to shatter public trust forever.



As the hours disappear, one terrifying question remains: is the AI system predicting Nyxa's death, or creating it?



A relentless psychological techno-thriller about surveillance, free will, corporate power, and the dangerous human instinct to choose one another when every calculated outcome says not to.



Alaric Westgrave is an author of psychological horror, dark academia, supernatural suspense, and mystery fiction. His stories explore fractured memories, hidden institutions, inherited secrets, grief, identity, and the terrifying consequences of confronting truths meant to remain buried. Known for creating unsettling atmospheres, morally complex characters, and mysteries that blur the boundary between reality and the supernatural, Westgrave draws readers into worlds where danger often begins within the mind. Through emotionally charged storytelling and carefully layered suspense, he writes haunting novels that challenge readers to question what they remember, whom they trust, and how much of themselves they would sacrifice to uncover the truth.