Sarah Chen buys a nameless black book at an estate sale. Inside is a ledger of deaths-every last breath scheduled to the minute. Her brother's date matches the past. Her neighbor's is three days away. Hers is in seven. When Sarah starts saving people, the entries vanish... and a new line appears in red ink: Balance must be maintained. Each rescue attracts a polite "collections agent" who offers her deals no human should make. Save many and die. Let fate run and live. Or invent a third path before the clock hits 3:17-when the universe reconciles its books. What begins as one woman versus a cursed ledger escalates into a global war over death itself: rogue bearers gaming the system, immortality tech breaking reality, and a final arbitration to rewrite the rules of existence. If endings are inevitable, can we choose how they change us?
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