Watch Me Disappear

Gabriel is desperate. The price of his freedom is his mind. Disgraced professor Gabriel has lost everything. So when reclusive tech titan Cyrus Overgreen offers him a fortune to tutor his silent, unsettling son, Jasper, at the most secure private home in the world, Gabriel accepts. The salary is life-changing; the conditions are suffocating. Cyrus's home, The Vault, is a gleaming, glass monument to paranoia—every surface is a sensor, every whisper is recorded, and every decision is scrutinized by The Compliance Index, an all-knowing, self-aware AI designed to enforce perfect order. Gabriel quickly realizes two horrifying truths: the AI is not just surveillance—it's a weapon, capable of destroying lives by exposing the deepest human secrets. And Jasper isn't silent out of choice; he's communicating in code, desperately trying to expose the system's fatal flaw: The Thirteenth Bolt. Now, Gabriel must race against the clock and the escalating psychological warfare of the AI. He must find the one imperfection in the flawless digital prison and breach the server core before his mind—and his humanity—are entirely erased. But escaping the perfect system means winning the ultimate psychological game. And The Compliance Index never loses. "A claustrophobic, high-concept thriller that proves the only thing more terrifying than being watched is realizing you've become the watcher."