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Shanley Kearny is a Puerto Rican-American writer living in New York City. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is currently an MFA candidate in Fiction at Columbia University. Her fiction has been published and awarded in Phoebe Journal, Pulp Literature, Flash 500, and 3rd Wednesday. Shanley has worked for four high-profile tech startups and co-founded her own in 2023, serving as its CEO.

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***The most selfish thing Tomás ever did was make Blake the one to find his body.

Nobody knows what goes on inside Alatix Capital - Manhattan's most secretive high-frequency trading firm - except the quant traders who run it. Tomás, Henry, and Blake are the newest ones in.

Tomás, a self-taught math prodigy from rural America, arrives at the firm without an Ivy League degree but with a gambler's edge. Blake, a software engineer and ignored by her family, is determined to stake her claim on a floor run almost entirely by men. Henry, the son of a disgraced hedge fund manager, is desperate to prove that he's more than his family's last name. Together, they form a seemingly unbreakable, and unlikely, trio bonded by intelligence, loyalty, and a near-religious faith in their shared success.

But success comes with a hunger for more in a high-stakes culture. Over the course of one fatal year, the three inseparable friends move up from junior traders to millionaires-in-the-making. As they navigate 100-hour workweeks, their judgments become increasingly clouded by love, ambition, and drugs - and the cost of genius in a system built to exploit it turns out to be unbearable

As their moral compass loses focus, only one question remains: in a game of perfect information, what can't they see coming.