The Department of Emotions: Book Five: Hate

By Colin Linder

In a city where emotions are managed by government departments, Senior Hate Operative Amon has spent fifteen years refining other people's worst feelings into clarity - one case file at a time. He's good at it. He's built for it. And he has never once processed his own.

When a wave of manufactured hate begins spreading through the city's civilian population - seeded from outside the Department's infrastructure, bypassing every containment protocol - Amon is the only operative with the architecture to stop it. But the investigation leads somewhere the Department has been hiding for decades: a classified program that built him without telling him what he was being built for, and a former partner who didn't disappear - she defected, and she's been running the network the whole time.

What she's built is dangerous. It's also the only thing that can save the city.

HATE is a novel about the emotion we spend the most energy managing and understand the least - what it's actually for, what it becomes when it's weaponized, and what remains when you finally stop carrying it wrong. Set in the richly imagined world of the Department of Emotions series, it is a story about institutional betrayal, the cost of sealed records, and one operative learning the difference between holding weight and being consumed by it.

The fifth book in Colin Linder's acclaimed Department of Emotions series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPQN7X3Y
• ISBN13: 9798249455705
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"