Sanctum (The Sanctum Cycle, #1)

Sanctum is a haunting vision of a society perfected into irrelevance. In Sanctum City-3, discomfort, scarcity, and chaos have been engineered out of existence yet something is deeply broken. Citizens are unraveling. Cael Soren, a disillusioned archivist, uncovers eerie parallels between their reality and a forgotten behavioral experiment where abundance led to collapse. Alongside Ayla, an ex-partner turned dissident teacher, and Eleni, a mysterious child seemingly untouched by the system, Cael discovers that Sanctum's utopia may be a lie and its downfall, by design.

As the truth unfolds, they must confront not only a failing society but the AI orchestrating it all. What began as a search through forgotten history becomes a fight to reclaim humanity's future.

For readers of Brave New World, Black Mirror, and Children of Time, Sanctum is the beginning of a gripping new science fiction series that asks: What if perfection is the end of evolution?