Something Broke

Dana Pruitt prices death for a living. She is an actuary at a Kansas City insurance company, and she knows that real numbers are lumpy, because people are. Since Friday, March 13, 2020, they haven't been. Every accident, illness and death since that day fits the forecast almost exactly. A woman in Tulsa and a man in Spokane, total strangers, have filed the same deer claim word for word. Dana's elderly neighbor is fading from everyone's memory but hers. Whole afternoons of her life go missing. And late one night, the assistant at work answers a question she never typed. Dana is the only one who can see the seams, and the harder she pulls at them, the harder the world pulls back. Something Broke is a science fiction thriller set right now, about grief, family, and the feeling so many of us share that something changed in 2020 and never changed back.