Vector of Error

Leona Vance begins with a restricted market-operations note describing temporary settlement irregularities and a handwritten question: temporary? Working with Adrian Mercer, she follows fragments across finance, journalism, public policy, contracts, liquidity, and international monetary systems as official confidence remains smooth while the underlying language changes. The novel is about the everyday agreement that systems will function tomorrow as they did today - and what it costs to notice structural change before institutions are ready to name it.