The Hurt Circuit by S. K. Atkins

What’s inside the red metal box?

Not even its owner, Calen Firth-Shelby, knows for sure. The red metal box is all that’s left from his life as the son of a mega-rich tycoon.

Now there’s just one thing on the mind of the nineteen-year-old former snowboarding hot shot, girls magnet and political prodigy who came in last place on the Hurt Circuit four years ago: surviving long enough on the Baffin-Chain (a man-made prison island which is infested by cannibals) to prevent his siblings, twins Stella and Paul, from suffering the same fate.

In the not-so-far future, the mega-rich live in constant fear: the “Suburban Tribes” that emerged from years of extremely violent global riots are more or less successfully kept out of the major cities and the state-of-the-art mountain enclaves of the most influential billionaire families. But the greatest threat comes from within. First it came in the form of the catastrophic “Billionaire-Wars”, now it disguises itself as ubiquitous, highly intrusive surveillance technologies, as complex corporate lawsuits/espionage – and as the Hurt Circuit.