Everything You Love Is Now Leverage

Welcome to The Price You Pay universe. Here the algorithms decide your fate and intimacy is the deadliest weapon in the boardroom.

The Showroom

Intelligence and love are liabilities. Enter the stories that prove it.

He wrote the code. She stole the keys.

Calvin Mercer built the perfect fraud detection system to keep the world safe. That was his first mistake. Intelligence offers no protection against the right kind of seduction. Now his own creation is hunting him down.

Love is just another zero-day exploit.

You think relationships are built on trust. In this world, they are engineered for leverage. See what happens when a romance is designed specifically for a hostile takeover and the psychological fallout leaves no survivors.

Everyone has a price tag.

THE ARCHITECT

Jeffrey Nissa

Jeffrey Nissa does not just write thrillers. He engineers
scenarios where the terrifying speed of technology collides
with human fragility.

He builds worlds where being the smartest person in the
room is often your fatal error.

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The algorithm misses nothing.

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THE PRICE YOU PAY

By Jeffrey Nissa

Everyone has a price tag.

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