The Panopticon Plot

After being mistaken for a deportable criminal and held by the Federal Immigration and Customs Agency, marine engineer Cameron Stone returns to the pristine Avalon Federation suburb of Maplewood Heights. His release becomes fuel for a clandestine social media account called “The Lens,” which manipulates the neighborhood’s hidden jealousies into a viral bloodlust. When a summer solstice dinner party at the illustrious Hargrove estate is hijacked by masked vigilantes and livestreamed as a public execution, Stone must use his naval combat and cyber-warfare skills to survive the night and dismantle an algorithm-driven conspiracy that turns ordinary neighbors into a digital death squad.