Kimberly Morgan did everything right. She took out a loan for a degree in business management, worked her way up to a middle manager position at a surveillance startup, and has been living with her mom in order to chip away at her student debt. Now, on the eve of her 32nd birthday, Kim is going to make her final payment, quit her soul-sucking job, and start living life on her terms. Or so she thinks.
Instead, Kim finds out a clerical error on the part of her student loan company means that she still owes $50,000. It's more than unfair, it's madness – and there's absolutely nothing Kim can do about it. Or rather, there’s absolutely nothing legal Kim can do about it. After a decade spent doing everything right, Kim is ready to do something wrong if it means freedom.
Enter Isabel, a professional nepotism baby who's never not lived life on her own terms. Normally, Isabel wouldn't be caught dead working a 9-5 but her dad has finally threatened to cut her off unless she gets a job … and Isabel's uncle owns Kim's company. So here she is, Kim's brand-new trainee. Although Isabel is a useless colleague, she's a very useful partner in crime. She and Kim connect over their shared misery and decide to do the unthinkable — blackmail the CEO of the company that owns Kim's student debt.
Unfortunately, the billionaire in question, Albert Land, is a ruthless maniac with a taste for endangered species and human flesh. He doesn't just defeat his enemies – he devours them. If Kim and Isabel think he's going to give up one red cent of the money he's accumulated manipulating and extorting young people with dreams, they've got another thing coming. Luckily, Kim and Isabel possess just the right mix of desperation, self-righteousness, and naïveté to make this a fair fight.
Kim and Isabel's scheme will lead them through the anarchist hallways of an adult haunted house perfect for a cash handoff, the rundown headquarters of a social justice warrior intent upon dismantling the system at all costs, and the 45 room mansion of Albert Land himself. 1.5 TRILLION is a battle between the rich and the broke, the ruling class and the middle management class, the kind of right and the extremely wrong, haunted house workers and the children who love to punch them, privacy and the surveillance state, the greedy and the desperate. In other words, it's a battle made for our times.
