Rank Zero

Once a year, the Measure judges every soul in Greyhold and brands them with a number — one to nine — deciding who eats, who serves, and who rules. Adrian Voss has waited eighteen years for his rank. Instead, the Measure gives him something that has never existed before: Zero. Branded an error and cast into the Unindexed Quarter — where the system dumps everyone it couldn't classify — Adrian discovers he can see what no one else can: the cracks hidden inside every rank. And when he touches one, he can change it. But the Measure does not tolerate errors. It has already sent an Auditor to correct him. And in the world beyond mortal sight, something without a name has started counting down the hours until it finds him. Rank Zero is a dark progression fantasy about a world that reduces every person to a number — and the one person it couldn't.