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In a world where feelings are data and emotions can be bought, hacked, or deleted, trust has become the most dangerous currency of all.

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.

Until it isn't.

When ...