When a small-town bookstore owner finds a receipt dated tomorrow, she assumes it's a glitch-until she learns her county can quietly "print" reality.Nora Cline follows the paper trail from courthouse back rooms to polite officials who insist everything is "procedure." But the deeper she digs, the stranger the world becomes: records change overnight, accounts freeze without warning, and her very identity is placed under "verification."With the help of an investigator who trusts evidence over comfort-and a survivor who knows what it feels like to be erased on paper-Nora uncovers a system designed to work best in silence. A machine that turns harmless signatures into permanent control... and makes people disappear without ever laying a hand on them.In a world where the record decides what's real, the only way to survive is to copy everything.Jan 8 is a tense, page-turning mystery thriller about small-town power, corporate secrets, and the terrifying truth that bureaucracy can be a weapon.