The Emotion Collector

Awakening

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Female Protagonist, Dystopia, Visionary Fiction, Metaphysical Fiction, Cyberpunk, and Novels

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Nov 17, 2025

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The Emotion Collector

Awakening

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In a world where emotions are harvested as hazardous waste, an elite Collector absorbs a child's love—and awakens.

Senior Collector Emma Thorne is the state's most precise weapon until a four-year-old's pure love fractures her conditioning. When her collection field fails on an immune stranger, everything she believes crumbles.

Emma discovers the brutal truth: emotions aren't waste—they're living energy linked to planetary health, and the Council's "peace" is killing the world. Her mother is the architect of suppression. Project Terminus will permanently sever human feeling within hours.

For readers who devoured Delirium and The Giver, but crave the hard science and hope of Nexus.

To save humanity, she must sacrifice everything she is to restore the world's heart.

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Female Protagonist, Dystopia, Visionary Fiction, Metaphysical Fiction, Cyberpunk, and Novels

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Richard French writes at the intersection of technology, transformation, and storytelling. A former executive at Oracle and Nokia, and a serial startup leader, Richard brings decades of leadership experience to his books.

His non-fiction works include Daniel as a Blueprint for Navigating Ethical Dilemmas, The Journaling Mastery Series, and The Journaling Prompts Series. In fiction, his Convergence Series explores quantum physics, high fantasy, and human connection in richly imagined worlds.

Richard lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he writes full time and races GT cars on weekends. He believes in challenging limits—on the track, in business, and on the page.