CSEU-17 was supposed to keep everyone alive.
Instead, it’s suffocating them. Slowly. Officially. With full compliance.
Wren is a half-decent engineer with a record full of mistakes and just enough guilt to keep following the rules. When he discovers a failure in the dome’s oxygen system, he does what he’s supposed to: files reports, alerts the right departments, waits his turn. No one listens.
His next appointment is in eleven months.
Zander doesn’t do waiting. She’s ex-military, locked out of the system, and fluent in blunt force. She needs Wren’s clearance. Wren needs someone who actually gets things done.
They don’t trust each other, but they don’t have time to care. The dome is running out of air. The people in charge are too tangled in procedures to notice.
Critical Failure is a dark, funny, and brutal sci-fi story about broken systems, reluctant rebels, and the quiet disaster of doing everything right.