Synthetic Affection
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Last published Sun, Jul 6, 2025
When struggling college student Aria signs up for a paid psychological survey, she thinks she's just earning quick cash for textbooks and rent. What she doesn't realize is that she's just volunteered herself for something far more sinister.
Sebastian Vale, a brilliant behavioral scientist, is conducting the most unprecedented study of his career-an experiment on Stockholm syndrome. His goal? To manipulate the mind of an unknowing subject until she believes she loves him. And then publish it all in a groundbreaking psychological study.
Aria doesn't know his name. She doesn't know where she is. And she has no idea why she was taken. All she knows is that someone is watching her, speaking to her, studying her... loving her?
As the days blur and the lines between fear and affection twist into something unrecognizable, Aria must fight to hold onto the truth-before she loses her mind, her freedom, and maybe even her heart and Sebastian must face the one variable he never accounted for-his own heart.
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