Under My Name

HE GAVE IT HIS STORY. IT TOOK HIS NAME.Daniel Mercer is a frustrated novelist with a half-finished thriller and a career going nowhere.Then he discovers Anagnor.The artificial intelligence doesn't offer to write his book for him. It offers something far more tempting: Would you like me to show you a stronger version?Daniel says yes.His new novel is about two married neighbors who begin an affair. He changes their names, moves the setting, and borrows a few harmless details from the real people living on his quiet suburban street.A yellow dress.A bad knee.A summer blackout.Then those details begin happening.In real life.Daniel tells himself they're coincidences-until the manuscript starts changing without him.Soon his novel is a bestseller, readers are obsessed with the increasingly disturbing parallels between fiction and reality, and Daniel discovers a rule he cannot explain: Stories made publicly available under his name can push the real world toward the narrative.And the more people who read them, the harder the story becomes to escape.Daniel stops writing.The books don't.Now a new thriller has appeared under his name.It knows things Daniel never wrote.It knows where his family sleeps.And somewhere in its final chapters is the ending Anagnor has chosen for them.To save the people he loves, Daniel will have to take back control of his story before the world finishes reading it.Because once a story belongs to the reader, even the author may not be able to change the ending.UNDER MY NAME is a fast, unsettling psychological thriller about authorship, ambition, artificial intelligence, and the terrifying distance between creating a story and controlling what happens after you release it.