A NOVEL BY RICHARD FRENCH
The Emotion Collector:
Awakening
When feelings become contraband, love becomes rebellion
In a future where the Council harvests human feeling as hazardous waste, Senior Collector Emma Thorne is the state’s most precise weapon: an empath engineered to extract what makes us human. When a four-year-old’s pure love shatters her conditioning, Emma is pulled into a covert resistance and a race to stop her mother’s final project, Terminus. To save a dying world Emma must do the unthinkable — heal the woman who built the system that broke her.
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THE STORY
How one heart can break the system
Emma’s job is simple: extract, contain, and dispose of emotions so the Council’s manufactured peace can continue. But when her collection field fails on a stranger immune to suppression, she discovers that emotions are living energy tied to planetary survival — and that the Council’s ‘harvest’ is slowly starving the world. Betrayal cuts closest: the architect of the suppression is her mother, the woman who ordered Emma’s father’s murder and buried Emma’s past, and now Terminus will permanently sever humanity’s ability to feel unless Emma stops it in hours, not days.
The Emotion Collector: Awakening blends high-concept ecological science fiction with intimate mother-daughter drama. Fans of The Giver, Delirium, Divergent, and Fahrenheit 451 will find a chosen-one story where empathy is both weapon and salvation — a tense, emotionally fierce read for YA and adult readers who crave rebellion, hidden identity, and stakes that stretch from the heart to the planet itself.
Will one forbidden act of love restore the world’s heart — or consume them both?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard French
Richard French writes speculative, character-driven science fiction about memory, power, and the cost of feeling. His work pairs political-scale stakes with intimate family drama; The Emotion Collector: Awakening continues his exploration of what it takes to save a world by reclaiming its heart.