The Balance Doctrine

THE BALANCE DOCTRINEEvery society has preferences. The Doctrine decided to fix them.Lena Park thought she just had bad luck with dating apps until she discovered the algorithm rejecting her matches was correcting for her.Jaxon built his career inside a system that scores height, beauty, and desirability like a credit rating-until his own choices put lives on the line.And when a new government doctrine promises to legislate fairness by seizing the advantages some people were born with, Seraphine Lux finds herself on the wrong side of a justice she once might have supported.The Balance Doctrine started as a correction. It became a government. Now it has to decide how far "fair" is allowed to go-and who gets to make that call.A gripping, morally complicated dystopian novel about preference, power, and the seductive danger of solving inequality by controlling people instead of systems.