The Stranger Who Knew My Name

For six years, Emily Carter has lived carefully.
New name. New town. New life. She built everything from scratch — a bookshop in a quiet coastal town, a disciplined routine, a talent for invisibility. The distance between who she was and who she became felt, finally, like safety.
Then the note appears under her door.
Someone has found her.
The threat arrives wrapped in something she never anticipated: a predictive algorithm called MERIDIAN, engineered to identify victims before crimes occur. The system has analyzed thousands of data points — her movements, her patterns, her digital shadow — and reached a conclusion with terrifying precision. Someone is coming. The collision is mapped. The timeline is closing.
But the man who comes to warn her was flagged by the same system as a danger to her life.
Daniel Hale built MERIDIAN. He knows what it can do. He also knows what it becomes in the wrong hands — and who is holding it now.
Emily is a journalist. She trusts evidence. She trusts her own careful, methodical observation. What she cannot determine is whether to trust Daniel — or whether the algorithm predicting her murder is also the weapon being aimed at her.
With days remaining, Emily must unravel a conspiracy years in the making, face a man from her past who believes she destroyed everything he loved, and answer the question at the heart of it all:
Can a system know the future?
Or is someone using it to write it?