The air is thinning. The Domes are closing. And the world is being asked to vote on who gets to stay.

When the Global Resource Council announces that only two billion people can be saved from the atmospheric collapse, survival becomes a calculation. Through a global voting app, humanity is forced to rank professions, ages, and even neighbors. It is a world of "Essential" and "Non-Essential," where a person's value is reduced to a number on a screen.

In the humid streets of Bangkok, Liora, a dedicated nurse, fights to keep her clinic open even as her city is marked for deletion. In a cold office in Berlin, Zane, the programmer who built the voting system, watches in horror as his code is used to divide the human race. From a cellist on a beach in Cape Town to a seed-keeper high in the Andes, the world is pushed to the breaking point.

As the "Transition Phase" begins and the lights go out, a whisper of rebellion grows. A different choice begins to emerge—one that the machines cannot understand. Can a single word break the system? Is a life measured by what it produces, or by the heart that beats within it?

Counting Hearts is a cinematic, deeply emotional journey through fear, loss, and the unbreakable bonds of the human spirit. It is a story of a world that was broken on purpose and a people who decided to breathe together anyway. If you were the one being left behind, who would you want to be standing beside you?

Breathtaking, addictive, and timeless, this novel explores the true price of survival and the power of choosing "All."