Fugit

There was a time when life was measured in years. Now it is counted in seconds.
In the city, survival is a discipline. Every action has a cost, every moment a value, and every life a limit. Those who have time endure. Those who do not, disappear.
Ophelia Shaw has built her existence within this arithmetic. As an officer of the system, she has learned to measure people as the world measures them: in what they earn, what they spend, and what they are worth.
She has never questioned the equation.
Until the variables begin to change.
As the cost of survival becomes personal, and the lines between duty and conscience begin to blur, Ophelia finds herself standing at the edge of truths that cannot be unseen:
Survival is not the same as living.
A system designed to preserve humanity may no longer understand it.
Pulled into a world of uneasy alliances and growing unrest, she must decide what she is willing to protect and what she is willing to risk.
Once you begin to question time itself, there is no going back.