You didn't download VEXADOR to be chosen. You downloaded it to escape.One tap. One "Accept." One harmless little game of cognitive challenges and quick decisions-perfect for unwinding after work. But VEXADOR was never entertainment. It was a test. A silent profiling system designed to measure what you do when you're exhausted, alone, and under pressure-when survival instincts override the story you tell yourself about who you are.Erin Caldwell is 35, a logistics and operations specialist in Cleveland-practical, sharp, and quietly resilient. When a strange object in the sky becomes the only thing the news can't explain, Erin keeps doing what responsible people do: she works, she adapts, she endures. Then VEXADOR flags her as "exceptional," and the invitation arrives with a deadline, a code, and a warning: don't tell anyone.Hours later, Erin is inside Fort Resolute-cut off, monitored, and trapped with fourteen other "selected" civilians. The truth is worse than a conspiracy: the government has been ranking the population by usefulness. Not by virtue. Not by innocence. By operational value. And the invasion everyone fears isn't coming.It's already here.When a captured alien entity dies from a simple infrared signal-an accidental discovery made with a routine remote-Erin becomes the hinge point of humanity's counterattack. But turning a weakness into a weapon has a cost. Because the moment you can save the world, someone will decide what else should be controlled... and who deserves to live long enough to see it.VEXADOR is a high-tension techno-thriller about invasion, survival, and the most unsettling battlefield of all: the screen in your hand. Fast, plausible, morally sharp-and chillingly close to real life.Because the most effective control isn't the kind that forces you.It's the kind you get used to.