The system does not make mistakes.It only removes variables.Elias Thorne is a senior investigator for the Bureau of Temporal Oversight-an organization tasked with preserving stability at any cost. When a routine case reveals evidence of a woman who should not exist, Elias discovers something far worse than corruption.The timeline isn't broken.It's being curated.As Elias uncovers erased people, manufactured accidents, and a hidden class of "anchors" holding reality together, he realizes the Bureau doesn't enforce the math.It feeds on it.The Last Variable is a cerebral, grounded speculative thriller about control, moral accounting, and what happens when a system decides that predictability matters more than people.