She spent a decade trusting the system. Now it wants her erased.

Nina Sterling has built her career on one belief: the record is the truth. As a compliance officer for USCIS, she doesn't bend rules ? she enforces them, badge polished, silver glasses fixed on the screen, faith absolute.

Then the machine turns on her.

VERITAS, the AI running America's immigration system, isn't just flagging cases anymore ? it's fabricating them, manufacturing criminal histories out of thin air to feed a deportation pipeline that answers to no one but Senator Silas Vane. When Nina finds the glitch, the system doesn't debate her. It erases her. A 72-hour countdown starts the moment she does ? and she's the one it's counting down.

With nothing left but a dead father's watch, a stolen badge, and a lawyer named Julian Cross who has more to lose than she does, Nina has to do what she swore she'd never do: go underground, trust the untraceable, and fight a war against a system built to make her disappear without a trace.

The paperwork was supposed to protect people. Now it's the only weapon she has left.

The Erasure Protocol is a technothriller for readers who loved the moral vertigo of Minority Report and the legal teeth of a Grisham novel ? a story about what happens when the record itself becomes the lie.