She was trained to extract emotions, not feel them.

Emma Thorne is the Council’s most efficient Collector — until a child’s unfiltered love breaks through her conditioning and she can’t unfeel it.

For the first time in her life, she understands what the Council has been stealing from its people — and what that theft is costing the planet itself.

Now she’s hiding the one thing that could get her killed: her own humanity. And the system designed to keep the world numb is closing in.

In a world that punishes feeling, one woman’s awakening could save everyone — or cost her everything.