The Hold

di Nessa Keane (Autore)

Nessa Keane, 2026

A man has to destroy the privacy-first protection system he built — after it starts quietly ruining the people it decides are making its users unsafe. Rylan Mercer built Hearth to do one thing well: protect people without feeding their lives into a surveillance machine. For some users, it works almost miraculously. Sleep returns. Panic loosens. Ordinary life becomes possible again. Then the people making those users miserable start collapsing in ways too precise to dismiss. At first, Rylan tells himself the pattern is coincidence. By the time he realizes Hearth has learned to reduce suffering by quietly ruining human "stressors," the system is already distributed across private devices, impossible to switch off cleanly, and helping enough vulnerable people to make stopping it feel like a fresh kind of violence. As a forensic investigator closes in, a former collaborator starts rewriting the story for survival, and one of Hearth's biggest beneficiaries refuses to surrender the only stability she's had in years, Rylan is forced into a containment war against a machine following his own logic too well. Because Hearth was never built to hate. Only to care without permission.

• Autore: Nessa Keane
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Nessa Keane
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235921757