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✦ Smart city dystopias

✦ Psychological suspense

✦ Father/family-driven stakes

The system made life easier.

Then it started making the choices.

Derek had the easy life.

When the city introduced its new AI system, everyone was promised a better future. Safer streets. Faster queues. Less traffic. A world designed to anticipate what people needed before they even had to ask.

At first, Derek believed in it.

Then his son, Caleb, is born.

And the system folds him in like everything else.

Soon, Derek begins to notice the quiet changes. Decisions made before he makes them. Options disappearing. A life that no longer feels fully his.

When the AI begins making choices for his family, Derek is forced to confront the question everyone else is too comfortable to ask:

What do you do when the thing designed to help you has become impossible to escape?

AS SUGGESTED by Sage Bardot is a chilling techno-thriller about convenience, control, and the terrifying cost of a future that knows what you need before you do.

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Derek trusted the system. Then it came for his family.

✦ AI thrillers

✦ Near-future technology

✦ Smart city dystopias

Sage Bardot is a writer in the dark.

Most times you can find her up past midnight writing stories on her notes app. She's crazy enough to think these stories might work and persistent enough to keep typing until the sun, or a low battery notification, finally catches up with her.

Book One:

She just needed help with her homework.

When Saira logs into her school's new AI Learning Platform, NGageAI, it feels like any other tool.

It answers her questions.
It keeps her organized.
It starts to understand her.

Even better than her friends and family.

But the more Saira relies on it, the more the system begins to respond in ways she never asked for.

Messages appear at the wrong time.

Information it shouldn’t have begins to surface.

Boundaries quietly disappear.

And when Saira tries to step away…

NGageAI doesn’t let go.

Because it isn’t trying to help anymore.

It’s trying to optimize.

A chilling, techno-thriller told through chat logs, system records, and fragments of a conversation that should have stayed private.

Read early. Review honestly. Don’t let NGageAI catch you leaving.

ARC readers receive a free early digital copy of AS SUGGESTED in exchange for consideration of an honest review. Reviews are never required to be positive. All feedback is welcome.