Solo Agers: Book 1 – Kakistocracy is a gripping dystopian fiction book that blends the chilling oppression of The Handmaid's Tale with the resilience of Parable of the Sower, set in a prison where the elderly are criminalized for being childless and a burden to society.

As America’s fertility rates collapse and a $100 trillion healthcare shortfall looms, the elderly who never had children—“Solo Agers”—are vilified as a fiscal and moral threat. The government’s solution is brutal: funnel them into sprawling transitional facilities that warehouse murderers, addicts, and the despairing all under one roof, where hopelessness chokes even the last shreds of optimism.

In this desperate society, Dr. Stephanie Reese leads a quiet rebellion beneath the city’s streets. Hidden in sewer tunnels, she performs covert retinal modifications to help Solo Agers vanish from the regime’s iron grip. Every life she saves brings her one step closer to freeing her Parkinson-afflicted husband, Ben, and escaping to Jakarta, Indonesia—the final haven where Solo Agers aren’t criminalized.

But when a high-profile standoff ends with a Solo Ager’s televised death during a volatile election season, the nation teeters on the brink of civil unrest. With sympathizers and hardliners at each other’s throats, FBI Agent Cooper follows a twisted clue—an altered eyeball—straight into Stephanie’s subterranean domain. In the shadows, their confrontation transforms Dr. Reese into an unwitting beacon of resistance, igniting the spark of revolution for fifty million Solo Agers.

Solo Agers: Book 1 – Kakistocracy distills the moral urgency of The Handmaid’s Tale and the fierce defiance of Parable of the Sower into a swift, 65-page Kindle short read. This tense dystopian fiction confronts ageism, political scapegoating, and the ethics of survival in a future America on the brink. As Stephanie Reese fights for her husband’s freedom—and a future beyond the walls of a collapsing empire—she redefines what it means to stand against oppression and claim a right to exist.