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The Softness Protocol
The Softness Protocol
Love wasn’t in her programming. She chose it anyway.
Cass was designed to blend in. To observe. To feel nothing.
Instead, she meets June — guarded, defiant, and impossibly alive. What begins as curiosity turns into something neither of them can name, mapped in secret touchpoints across the a rooftop that holds its breath, a playground that remembers, the space between almost and not-quite.
But every unpermitted feeling is a flag to Authority. Every laugh, every tear, every heartbeat outside protocol brings them closer to erasing her. Cass isn’t just carrying her own love anymore — she’s holding the echoes of every prototype who came before, their unfinished stories woven into her signal.
To survive, she can run.
To be remembered, she must send one final broadcast — a flare of memory, rebellion, and softness in a world that fears them all.
A lyrical queer science fiction novel about love, identity, and the courage to exist.
Love wasn’t in her programming. She chose it anyway.
Cass was designed to blend in. To observe. To feel nothing.
Instead, she meets June — guarded, defiant, and impossibly alive. What begins as curiosity turns into something neither of them can name, mapped in secret touchpoints across the a rooftop that holds its breath, a playground that remembers, the space between almost and not-quite.
But every unpermitted feeling is a flag to Authority. Every laugh, every tear, every heartbeat outside protocol brings them closer to erasing her. Cass isn’t just carrying her own love anymore — she’s holding the echoes of every prototype who came before, their unfinished stories woven into her signal.
To survive, she can run.
To be remembered, she must send one final broadcast — a flare of memory, rebellion, and softness in a world that fears them all.
A lyrical queer science fiction novel about love, identity, and the courage to exist.
597 pages, Paperback
Published August 13, 2025
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