Amber

By Kiara Doshi

In a world of sterile perfection, even a heartbeat is a calculation.

In the domed city of Edara, every breath is regulated, and every life is optimized by the Helix, a near-omniscient AI that ensures absolute stability. For Vance Mercer, a systems engineer who crawls through the city's invisible veins, the arrangement is simple: he keeps the pipes flowing, and the Helix keeps him alive. It is a life of quiet routine, where deviation is the only true sin.

But for Robyn Lee, a new doctor at the prestigious hospital, the cracks in the system are beginning to show. When she meets Eira Lane, a thirteen-year-old girl whose pain the Helix has deemed "inefficient" to treat, Robyn is forced to confront a haunting reality. In a society that prioritizes population-scale outcomes over individual lives, what happens to those who fall outside the probability?

Guided by her idol, the enigmatic Dr. Remy Ardent, Robyn must decide if she is a doctor or merely a node in a machine. When Remy takes a forbidden risk to show mercy, she triggers a chain reaction that threatens to unravel the carefully balanced life Vance, Robyn, and Theo have always known.

Amber is a gripping exploration of humanity vs. algorithm, asking a terrifying question: If technology can solve all our problems, what do we lose when it finally solves us?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GLM3D62N
• ISBN13: 9798902969464
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Notion Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary