In a world where emotions are harvested as hazardous waste, an elite Collector absorbs a child's love—and awakens. Senior Collector Emma Thorne is the state's most precise weapon until a four-year-old's pure love fractures her conditioning. When her collection field fails on an immune stranger, everything she believes crumbles. Emma discovers the brutal truth: emotions aren't waste—they're living energy linked to planetary health, and the Council's "peace" is killing the world. Her mother is the architect of suppression. Project Terminus will permanently sever human feeling within hours. For readers who devoured Delirium and The Giver , but crave the hard science and hope of Nexus . To save humanity, she must sacrifice everything she is to restore the world's heart. Get your copy now and discover what happens when the weapon learns to love.