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The Edge of What We Refuse
Paperback
Publisher: Machine Elves
Published: Jan 26 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if forgetting was the most dangerous technology ever created?
When data ethicist Mara Vale exposes a powerful memory-alteration program designed to erase pain, she becomes the most controversial woman in the country-and the only one who understands the true cost of forgetting. What begins as a whistleblower scandal escalates into a public reckoning over consent, responsibility, and who gets to decide what parts of the past are too much to carry.
As corporations scramble to contain the fallout and governments race to regulate what they no longer fully control, Mara is pulled into a trial that threatens not just her freedom, but the future of human agency itself. Patients come forward. Stories collide. And a terrifying truth emerges: the real danger was never memory-it was the relief of giving it away.
With razor-sharp insight and emotional precision, this novel explores a near-future where technology offers mercy at a price few are willing to examine, and one woman's refusal to cross a moral line forces the world to confront what it means to choose, to remember, and to live with the consequences.
Tense, intimate, and profoundly human, this is a gripping story about power, autonomy, and the quiet courage it takes to say no-even when forgetting would be easier.
Author: Sharon Neetles
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