Nøt Nøw

If a corporation rebuilt your body after you died, who owns what comes back?In 2063, survival comes with terms and conditions.Every citizen is watched, scored and assigned a permitted life. The system decides where you can go, what you can access and how much freedom you have left. And if it rebuilds your body, it owns part of what it restores.Anaïs knows this better than anyone.After dying for fourteen seconds, she is brought back inside a synthetic body, sustained by the Hive and engineered to obey. She enforces the very system that keeps her alive.Then memories of her death begin to return.Anaïs starts to recognise the people hidden behind the State’s clean casualty reports. The Hive identifies her growing empathy as a fault. The resistance sees something else: an enforcer connected to the system who might help them break it from within.To survive, Anaïs must choose between the system that owns part of her body and the people asking her to turn against it.Both sides have plans for her. Neither begins by asking what she wants.NØT NØW is an adult near-future dystopian thriller about surveillance, artificial intelligence, engineered consciousness, corporate power and bodily autonomy.Includes 40 full-page cinematic Gothic illustrations, with one opening each chapter. Available in Kindle Unlimited.