Shift Seventeen at the Air Farm

About this book:

Seventeen-year-old Rory doesn't just work the night shift at the O2-Synthetics Facility—he keeps a domed city breathing. Down in Sector Nine, where the air tastes of copper and the algae vats churn out oxygen for millions above, the sensors read *optimal* while the tanks rot with black fungal bloom. When Rory's own hands tell him the pressure is dead but the monitors scream *green*, he uncovers a discrepancy that shouldn't exist: a five percent gap between what the machines report and what the pipes deliver. In a world where every breath is manufactured, a five percent lie is the difference between survival and suffocation.

As Shift Seventeen grinds into its darkest hours, Rory and his crew trace the falsified data through locked-down sectors, ghost injections in the nutrient lines, and a supervisor's keycard that opens doors to something far worse than equipment failure. The algae are mutating. The scrubbers are choking. And someone at the top of the dome has been calibrating the lies for years—because if the citizens of Aethelgard knew the truth about their air, they'd tear the city apart to get outside.

*Shift Seventeen at the Air Farm* is a claustrophobic, high-stakes dystopian thriller where the most precious resource on a poisoned planet isn't water, or food, or even energy—it's the truth about what you're breathing.