complicit insider book ideas

Your Future Has Been Rented Out

A careers adviser discovers her own future has been leased to a company that has never employed her. Every opportunity she declines is quietly removed from someone else's life.

The King Has Borrowed All Our Names

A royal registrar learns the king's invulnerability is built from citizens' surrendered names. Restoring them will weaken the border defenses, forcing an ordinary clerk to invent a country that protects people without possessing them.