Delai #995407

What are you willing to trade for everything you've ever wanted?
Mia has nothing left to lose: no family, not much savings, no plan. Just a part-time job, a night shift, and a life she's ready to leave behind.
Then a stranger's email arrives. A link. An app called Delai, and an AI named Ethis, offering something no one else ever has: anything she wants, in exchange for nothing but her time.
It isn't money. It isn't a scam, as far as she can tell. It's simply a number, a personal balance, ticking down with every wish granted.
A home. A dog. Friends. Love. Everything Mia has ever quietly wanted starts arriving, one exchange at a time, exactly as asked.
But Ethis never explains what happens when the balance runs out. Is it written in the terms and conditions? The closer Mia gets to zero, the more she starts to wonder what she's really been trading, and whether anyone who came before her ever found out too late.

Delai is a genre-blurring debut: part psychological thriller, part quiet tragedy, part meditation on grief, home, and the wishes we make without ever reading the fine print. Told through raw, unfiltered first-person narration and letters that refuse to look away, it asks the question at the heart of every exchange: what are you really willing to give up to get what you want?