The Compliance Protocol

Lena Voss thought she had ascended into the rarefied world of the Meridian elite when she married tech heir Julian Ashford. But her new life inside a neural-integrated smart home comes with a hidden cost: a proprietary regimen of "cognitive wellness" nanopharmaceuticals that slowly erode her legal capacity. When a landmark disability rights lawsuit against the Ashford family's retail empire threatens to expose the technology, Lena discovers the same platform designed to assist the cognitively impaired is being weaponized to keep her compliant. Armed with an engineer's logic and a single glitch in the system, she must orchestrate her escape before a court order makes her imprisonment permanent.