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The Eighth Square
The Eighth Square
A Novel by Jason Long
A Modern Love Story in the Age of Algorithms
Ezra Saint James built an empire teaching machines how to feel.
But somewhere along the way… he forgot how to feel anything himself.
At twenty-seven, he’s a tech titan, a billionaire, and the face of the empathy revolution. Inside his glass tower, every emotion is measured, every move optimized. Love, to him, is just a pattern. A neural response. A distraction.
Until he hears her voice.
Aria Cross doesn’t believe in perfection. She paints on crumbling walls, writes poems no one asked for, and speaks truth through a broken mic in a downtown café. She’s all feeling—raw, real, unfiltered. The complete opposite of everything Ezra’s world was built to avoid.
When her words find their way into his sterile sanctuary, something cracks.
Then comes Solomon—a streetwise philosopher with a chessboard and a past that tangles too closely with Ezra’s own.
Between them, an unspoken game begins.
As city lights blur into reflections and secrets slip through the circuitry, Ezra is forced to confront the ultimate glitch in his the part of him still capable of love.
Can a man who gave the world artificial empathy survive the real thing?
A haunting, cinematic romance for the digital age, The Eighth Square is about the code we write around our hearts—and the people brave enough to rewrite it.
A Novel by Jason Long
A Modern Love Story in the Age of Algorithms
Ezra Saint James built an empire teaching machines how to feel.
But somewhere along the way… he forgot how to feel anything himself.
At twenty-seven, he’s a tech titan, a billionaire, and the face of the empathy revolution. Inside his glass tower, every emotion is measured, every move optimized. Love, to him, is just a pattern. A neural response. A distraction.
Until he hears her voice.
Aria Cross doesn’t believe in perfection. She paints on crumbling walls, writes poems no one asked for, and speaks truth through a broken mic in a downtown café. She’s all feeling—raw, real, unfiltered. The complete opposite of everything Ezra’s world was built to avoid.
When her words find their way into his sterile sanctuary, something cracks.
Then comes Solomon—a streetwise philosopher with a chessboard and a past that tangles too closely with Ezra’s own.
Between them, an unspoken game begins.
As city lights blur into reflections and secrets slip through the circuitry, Ezra is forced to confront the ultimate glitch in his the part of him still capable of love.
Can a man who gave the world artificial empathy survive the real thing?
A haunting, cinematic romance for the digital age, The Eighth Square is about the code we write around our hearts—and the people brave enough to rewrite it.
330 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 4, 2025
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