Consent Frequency - Book 1: A City Learns to Ask (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798243941709)

In a city healed by coercion, the most radical weapon is a song that asks for permission.

Neo-Shanghai is a monument to serene control. Peace is maintained by drones with LED smiles and a soothing, inescapable hum that promises safety-in exchange for absolute compliance. The world is saved, its dimensional wound sealed by a miraculous energy called the Azure. Or so the regime of the charming, terrifying Criptus claims.

Eteus and Nareus know the truth is a lie. Eteus hears the hidden frequencies in the city's song. Nareus is haunted by futures where this calm becomes a permanent cage. When they are hunted for these gifts, they are saved by Lyra, a defector who wrote the regime's scripts of gentle coercion. She reveals a devastating secret: the living conduit powering the city is their mother, Fildez, fused into the wound she tried to understand.

Their only hope is a melody-a "Key" hidden in the city's bones by their father. It is not a song of destruction, but of consent. To find it, they must navigate a black market that trades in memories, outsmart surveillance that wears a caring face, and brave the epicenter of the original Catastrophe.

But Criptus is listening. He doesn't want to destroy the bridge their mother has become-he wants to weaponize it, feeding the entire city to the volatile Aether to cement his perfect, silent peace.

The Consent Frequency is a riveting, sensory-rich tale of rebellion where the battleground is frequency itself. It's a story about the cost of quiet, the courage of noise, and the fragile, revolutionary idea that a system-and a society-should ask before it takes.