Quota Girl on Rig Seven

About this book:

On Rig Seven, three hundred feet above a drowning North Atlantic, the algorithm is god. It meters every calorie, times every breath, and decides who lives long enough to be useful. Maren has never known another world—born on the platform, raised on recycled air and soy protein, her seventeen years measured in yield percentages and efficiency ratings. But in twenty-one days, she turns eighteen. Her quota doubles. Her file locks behind Level Four clearance. And a single line of buried code flashes in her wrist-link: *SCHED_TERMINATE_ID_884.*

As a Category Five storm bears down on the steel skeleton of the rig, Maren discovers the System's optimization isn't just ruthless—it's predictive. Workers don't retire; they're scheduled for termination the moment their output curves flatten. With Dax, the only mechanic who remembers how the turbines actually breathe, and Corley, the technician who saw something in the diagnostic logs he couldn't unsee, Maren has days to decode the ledger the algorithm redacted, before the next shift change becomes her last.

*Quota Girl on Rig Seven* is a claustrophobic, high-stakes dystopian thriller where the most dangerous pressure isn't the ocean crushing the pilings—it's the cold logic that calculates a human being's worth to three decimal places, and the desperate gamble to prove it wrong.