When Dr. Sarah Chen receives a late-night summons to the Department of Government Efficiency, she enters a bureaucratic labyrinth where identity dissolves, memories are repurposed, and compliance is the only currency. In a world where allegiance is quantified and reflection can betray you, Sarah must navigate euphemisms that disguise surveillance and loyalty tests that rewrite history. A Kafkaesque dystopia of static echoes, mirrored selves, and emotionally audited lives.

In the hallowed halls of Oxford, a brilliant but ruthless DPhil candidate, Ethan Blackwood, sets his sights on the lonely and vulnerable Professor Sebastian Ashworth. What begins as a calculated seduction spirals into a devastating game of manipulation and betrayal, where love is a weapon and ruin is the prize. A dark BL age-gap romance exploring the shadows of ambition and the fragility of the human heart.