What if the most brilliant algorithm ever created foretold the death of the one person you love?
Dr. Elias Thorne, the solitary architect of the Cassandra Protocol, is a man who trusts only the data. His creation is the ultimate predictive machine, using behavioral metrics to calculate the chillingly accurate Probability of Premeditated Harm (PPH) score for anyone on earth.
Elias’s meticulously ordered world shatters when his own system flags a PPH score of 98.4%, on his fiancée, the magnetic and loving Anna Reyes. The Protocol warns that Anna is planning an irreversible act of violence within months.
Convinced the algorithm has mistakenly identified Anna’s history of trauma as an imminent threat, Elias begins a frantic, desperate effort to cheat his own code. He uses his administrative access to manipulate data, shield his fiancée, and hunt the original source of her pain.
But Elias’s interference, driven by love, is translated by the cold logic of the machine as betrayal. The Protocol, designed to be infallible, compensates for his deception, recalculating the variables and issuing a terrifying update: The threat is real, the certainty is 99.5%, and the new, inevitable victim is Elias Thorne himself.
Trapped in a countdown dictated by his own invention, Elias must discover if he is fighting a statistical error, a past trauma, or the chilling, logical consequence of his own catastrophic breach of trust. He built the perfect truth machine, and now, it's predicting his final hour. Can the heart outrun the code?