This Time We Lose

The year is 2188. Humanity survived climate collapse. But survival is all it did.

In the ration cities, an AI called Radan controls everything. Food is rationed. Health is monitored. Emotions are flagged. People live in isolated pods, connected only through screens, their lives managed down to the last calorie. No birds. No butterflies. No wildness of any kind.

Landry Reagan is a time operative for MAGERA, the Mars and Global Environmental Research Authority. Her job: travel to Earth's past, record evidence of climate breakthroughs, and bring it back for analysis. She is not supposed to intervene. She is not supposed to feel. And she is definitely not supposed to question Radan.

But when Landry uncovers research that could have changed everything, Radan dismisses it. When her friend Wynter witnesses a devastating act of violence on a past assignment, the evidence does not add up. And when Karmal begins digging into Radan's decisions, he discovers something that shakes all three operatives to their core.

Radan is not what it claims to be. And the future it has built may not be the only one possible.

Three friends. Three missions into the past. One chance to rewrite the future. The cost may be everything they know, including each other.