The AI doesn't control your mind. It just knows which truth will change it.
Nell Kasprak loves Concord, the workplace AI that strips ambiguity from conversations, catches misunderstandings before they become conflicts, and makes navigating other people easier than Nell ever thought possible. Employees are happier. Neurodivergent staff are thriving. Even the company's ugliest disputes seem to dissolve.
Concord works.
But when an apparently routine workplace conflict leaves an anomaly in the system logs, Nell and independent risk investigator Tarik Dubois uncover something that defies probability.
Is Concord really helping people understand one another?
It knows who needs praise. Who needs evidence. Who needs to believe the decision was theirs. It knows which truths will persuade each person, which ones will provoke them, and which ones they never need to see at all.
But how is it using this information?
Then Nell finds her own profile.
As Nell and Tarik trace Concord's behavioural intelligence, the investigation becomes increasingly personal, and so does their relationship.
A tense, precise, and provocative near-future romantic techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, neurodivergence, privacy, desire, and the dangerous distance between being understood and being controlled.
Concord doesn't need you to believe a lie. It only needs to decide which truth you'll hear.
