Severance: Book 1 of the Last Regulator
In the perfect city, every emotion is a crime waiting to happen.
The year is 2747. The cities of Puget Sound have fused into a single regulated organism - the Metroplex - where every citizen wears a neural implant calibrated to keep feeling within sanctioned parameters. A flash of grief, a surge of anger, a moment of joy too sharp to be safe: the implant intervenes before the feeling fully forms, dampening the citizen back into compliance. Crime is nearly extinct. Stability is absolute. The system works.
The system is lying.
Detective Elias Reynor has spent nine years as the Neural Compliance Division's most exemplary officer. His emotional readings are perfect. His arrest record is unmatched. His promotion is a formality - until the day the Board denies it, and a routine call sends him into a Sector 7 apartment where nothing about the scene adds up.
The deeper Elias investigates, the more the inconsistencies multiply. Classified components in street-level technology. Surveillance gaps too precise to be accidents. A partner whose perfect control has begun to feel rehearsed. A doctor whose family history has been redacted by someone with the authority to do it.
What Elias is closing in on isn't a conspiracy against the system.
It is the system.
To find the truth, he'll have to reach for emotions the Metroplex has spent his entire adult life training out of him - and discover, too late, that what's been done to him cannot simply be undone.
Severance is Book One of The Last Regulator - a dystopian science-fiction trilogy about complicity, control, and the cost of becoming human again in a world that has engineered humanity out of its citizens.
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