Where Feelings are Forbidden, and She is the Exception

In a world where emotions are outlawed, her gift could save humanity—or destroy it.

She can steal your feelings with a single touch.

Twenty-three-year-old Aria Thorne is an expert Emotion Collector in a society where feelings have been systematically eradicated. With her rare ability to absorb and experience the emotions of others, she maintains the perfect, sterile peace demanded by the authoritarian Council.
Until she meets him.

Evan is different—the only person whose emotions she cannot read. Their forbidden connection awakens something dangerous in Aria: her own feelings.

Now she must choose:
• Maintain the emotionless "peace" she's always known
• Risk everything to reawaken humanity's ability to feel
• Uncover the truth about her mother's role in creating their sterile world
• Join a dangerous resistance movement fighting to restore emotions

But time is running out. As the Council moves to permanently suppress all human emotion, Aria discovers her mother may have hidden the key to reversing the process. With the authorities closing in, Aria and her allies race to reintroduce emotions to millions of suppressed minds. Yet in a society unprepared for the chaos of feeling, success could mean either humanity's salvation—or its final downfall.