The Emotion Bank: The Last Empath (Book 1)

Name: The Emotion Bank: The Last Empath (Book 1)
Author: j.c.barrett

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Synopsis

Imagine a world where your private grief isn't a feeling anymore—it’s corporate property. A world where the tears you cry over a broken heart can be extracted, packed into a capsule, and sold to a billionaire politician who needs to look relatable on live television. Welcome to 2050. Welcome to the Emotion Bank.

Ethan Carter is the man who writes the code that steals human souls. As a senior neuro-coder at Global Mind Corporation, his daily routine is bone-chillingly simple: strip away the messy, volatile emotions of the working class and turn their suffering into clean, predictable lines of binary data.

But Ethan is hiding a dangerous biological mutation. He is an Empath. When he stares at the monitors, he doesn't just see numbers. His own nervous system acts as a raw antenna, forcing him to physically taste, choke, and bleed on the agonizing emotional trauma of the people he harvests.

If the system offered to permanently delete the pain of your life at the cost of your humanity, would you sign the contract? Read The Last Empath today and step into the ultimate cyber-noir nightmare.