Hearts in the ShadowNet

by Brinda Phokeerdass

In a world where love is outlawed and emotion is treated as contagion, seventeen-year-old Ash Calder is a perfect agent — empty, loyal, and utterly controlled. But when he's embedded deep undercover to dismantle the last rebellion of "emotion terrorists," Ash must wear a mask of passion he's never felt, targeting Lira Veil — the girl whose secrets could unchain the world. As the lines between simulation and reality blur, Ash discovers that the real threat may not be the feelings he's meant to fake, but the truth hidden within his own mind. Raw, haunting, and disturbingly relevant, Hearts in the ShadowNet explores the price of suppressing the human soul — and what happens when the heart refuses to be coded out.