The Emotion Trader

In a future where feelings are the ultimate currency, Kaia is an Emotion Trader, deftly navigating the intricate neural pathways of her elite clients to extract their burdensome grief, joy, or rage. With surgically implanted Neuro-Ports, she transforms raw emotion into profitable, marketable data, offering peace to those who can afford it in a starkly stratified world. But during a routine extraction of profound grief, Kaia uncovers an impossible anomaly-a flicker of pure, unclassifiable emotion that defies all known metrics. This discovery threatens to unravel not only her meticulous operation but the very foundations of her meticulously controlled reality. Dive into a high-stakes science fiction mystery where the human soul is for sale, and the price of discovery might be everything. Uncover the truth hidden within the deepest reaches of the human heart.