Override

<p>In a world where feelings are data and emotions can be bought hacked or deleted trust has become the most dangerous currency of all.</p><p>Tess Riley is a certified empathy engineer - a designer of customized emotional overlays for clients who want to feel more or less or something entirely synthetic. She's damn good at her job even if it means rewriting a grieving widow's memories or installing a false sense of love into a politician's mind. For Tess it's all just code.</p><p>Until it isn't.</p><p>When a high-profile client suffers a catastrophic emotional collapse and a corrupted overlay is traced back to Tess's own neural signature she becomes the prime suspect in a digital crime that could unravel the entire empathy market. On the run and stripped of her clearance Tess is forced underground - and into the world of illegal freefeelers rogue coders who weaponize emotions for blackmail seduction and control.</p><p>With the help of a neurodivergent hacker who sees the world in wavelengths and a whistleblower with a dangerous conscience Tess must untangle a conspiracy embedded in the very architecture of human feeling. Because the next upgrade isn't a product - it's a total override.</p><p><em>Smart fast-paced and eerily plausible <strong>Override</strong> is a standalone sci-fi thriller perfect for fans of Blake Crouch William Gibson and the emotional noir of Black Mirror. If you could control how people felt... what would you do?</em></p>