Evan Swensen has spent more than half a century helping writers bring meaningful books into the world. As founder of Publication Consultants, he has edited, published, and championed hundreds of authors whose stories strengthen communities, preserve history, and hold institutions accountable. His press received the Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Ethics-recognition for the same values this novel defends: promises kept, truths told plainly, and people treated with integrity. This book grew from a simple discovery: during COVID, airlines borrowed $26 billion against loyalty programs they had spent decades telling customers were worthless. The SEC filings were public. The contradiction was undeniable. And millions of ordinary people-people who saved miles faithfully, believing the promise-never knew. Evan has spent his career helping overlooked voices find their way into print. This time, he wrote the story himself. Eleanor Vance is fiction. The system that betrayed her is not. His guiding philosophy, The Power of Authors, holds that writing is a moral act-that words can preserve truths that would otherwise disappear. This novel is that philosophy put into practice.