Human Grade

Renata Suarez harvests emotions from the living — it's her job, her routine, her survival. In a near-future where a neurological pandemic has stripped most people of their ability to feel, synthetic emotional compounds drawn from specially bred humans are the only treatment. Renata never questioned the process until a new vessel whispered her name. Now the clean, clinical world she depends on is cracking open, and what lies beneath may cost her everything she thought she'd already lost.