Juris Ex Machina

With a click, the bread fell into the toaster. One circuit fired the heating coils. Others monitored bread temperature and color.Yet another circuit was quite unlike all the rest--as exotic as it was sinister;when it activated, 368 people would die.In the 22nd-century domed city of Arcadia, the AI justice system is airtight. Human error has been removed. Yet somehow, a well-intentioned young kleptomaniac named Rainville falls through the cracks and is wrongfully convicted of mass murder.He is exiled to Wychwood Prison, a crumbling necropolis beyond the dome where the dead outnumber the living, where the inmates are also the guards. News of the crime follows him, and he becomes a marked man.Rainville's only hope for survival is becoming the first inmate in history to escape Wychwood. Can he do it? The fate of Arcadia depends on it.Juris Ex Machina is a fast-paced science-fiction legal thriller about artificial intelligence, justice, and the dangerous consequences of technological perfection.Performed by Audie Award-winning narrator Marc Thompson.Winner, Best Science Fiction Novel - 2025 American Fiction Awards and 2025 Best Book Awards; Winner, Best Science Fiction Novel of 2024 - Indies Today.