Burning Hours

Nell Carrow's mother is forgetting everything—and the corporation monitoring Nell's brain waves won't let her care. At Vantage Analytics, employees wear MindTrack bands that score every flicker of thought, and grief is a fireable offense. Pressured into taking pills that erase her emotions to boost her metrics, Nell discovers something chilling buried in her own data: the system was never measuring productivity. It was manufacturing obedience. Now she has to decide what she's willing to lose to prove it.