Dr. Sena Adjei has built her career modelling catastrophe—finding the hidden dependencies that turn ordinary failures into mass-casualty events. Then a Toronto train derailment and an assassination attempt in Accra occur at the same recorded second. One disaster kills. The other saves a minister who should have died.
The pattern is impossible. Until Sena discovers the Balance Engine.
Buried inside a global network of governments, insurers and intelligence services, the system cannot eliminate risk. It can only move it. For years, the powerful have purchased continuity by transferring their disasters to communities deemed resilient enough, poor enough or invisible enough to absorb the loss.
Now Sena learns that her own survival has already been protected—and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Maya, has entered the system as unsettled debt.
To expose the House behind the Engine, Sena must prove a conspiracy designed to make every death look ordinary. But destroying the system could collapse the institutions that have quietly depended on it for nearly two decades.
Set across Toronto, Accra, London and Geneva, Unbalanced Probabilities is a high-concept speculative techno-thriller about engineered luck, institutional power and the terrifying question beneath every miracle: who paid for it?
