Engineered Desires

How much of yourself would you sell to survive?

Amelia is running out of options when she signs a contract with Synatecture, a powerful tech company preparing to launch EroSyn, a next-generation augmented reality platform promising total immersion, total intimacy, and total control.

Her role is simple: allow her body, emotions, and neural responses to be captured and rendered inside curated fantasy scenarios for paying users. At first, the experiences feel scripted, distant, safe. But as Amelia unlocks higher-tier content, the boundaries between performance and consent, fantasy and violation, begin to collapse.

Guided by the unsettling presence of Adam, an AI figure who grows more complex with every encounter, and overseen by the increasingly conflicted project manager Carys, Amelia becomes trapped in a system designed to escalate desire, erase autonomy, and monetise harm.

As her real life fractures under grief, isolation, and family estrangement, the virtual world tightens its grip. Escape becomes impossible. Observation becomes exploitation. And survival comes at a cost she may not be able to pay.

This is not a story about sex.

Blending techno-dystopia with psychological horror, this novel interrogates the commodification of bodies and trauma, the illusion of consent in algorithm-driven systems, and the struggle between corporate ethics and human cost.

Structured through immersive scenes, internal documents, and corporate communications, the narrative mirrors the very systems it critiques. Slick, controlled, and increasingly violent beneath the surface.

Content note:

This book contains themes of sexual exploitation, coercion, psychological trauma, violence, and self-harm. It is written with a critical lens and intended for mature readers.

Unflinching, unsettling, and urgently relevant, this novel asks what happens when intimacy becomes infrastructure, and preservation of self is secondary to user experience.