About
Suzanne Francis writes fierce, high-stakes dystopian fiction about rebellion, truth, and the cost of freedom. Her heroines don’t just fight the system—they dismantle it. Blending heart-pounding action with emotional depth, Suzanne’s stories explore what happens when the algorithm fails, the lie cracks, and one girl dares to fight back.
When she isn’t building broken futures and the girls who burn them down, Suzanne can usually be found with strong coffee, too many notebooks, and a playlist of cinematic scores on repeat. She’s not on social media—she’s too busy plotting revolutions, hacking the algorithm, and writing her next rebellion.
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In a world where merit decides your fate, what happens when the system is rigged?
Every citizen of the Commonwealth is born to a Tier. Every year, The Reckoning decides who rises—and who is Culled, vanishing into labor camps or the smoke of the Commonwealth's chimneys.
Seventeen-year-old Rhea Vale has never questioned the system. As a Gold, she's spent her life training to dominate the Reckoning's televised trials and cement her family's place among the elite. Someone must fall so others can rise. That's the balance.
But this year, the rules change. Contestants are paired across Tiers to "foster unity," and Rhea is forced to team with Finn Rowan—a Grey from the lowest caste. Sharp, cynical, and far too clever, Finn claims the trials are rigged. That the algorithm always sacrifices the poor, no matter how well they perform.
Rhea doesn't believe him. Until she sees identical performances scored differently based on Tier. Until a brilliant Silver girl dies in the rubble and the system calls it an accident. Until she hacks the algorithm and finds the proof written in code: population quotas, Tier adjustments, manufactured outcomes.
Her family's legacy is built on a lie designed to keep the powerful in power.
Now, surviving the Reckoning means more than winning. It means choosing between the privilege that shaped her and the boy who shattered her world. Because when she exposes the truth on live broadcast, the algorithm marks her for Culling despite a perfect score.
Perfect order demands perfect obedience. Rhea Vale just broke everything.
Coming in 2026!
THE TIERBORN TRILOGY
In the Commonwealth, your Tier is your destiny. Gold means power. Grey means survival. And every year, The Reckoning decides who rises—and who disappears forever.
Rhea Vale was born to rule. Raised in luxury, trained for victory, she enforced the system that kept her family on top—never questioning what happened to those she helped condemn. Until the year she was paired with a Grey who claimed the trials were rigged.
She didn't believe him. Then she saw the code. The quotas. The lie buried in the algorithm.
The Reckoning isn't broken. It was designed this way.
When Rhea exposed the truth on live broadcast, the system branded her a traitor and threw her into the camps with the people she'd once judged. Now the girl who believed in merit must survive among those the system discards. She'll infiltrate the rebellion she once condemned. She'll fight alongside the boy who shattered her world. And she'll discover that destroying a perfect lie requires burning down everything—including herself.
From the towers of the elite to the ashes of the Culled, one girl's awakening will ignite a revolution that threatens to consume them all.
Perfect order. Perfect control. Perfect lies.