The Echo Heart: They Stole Our Hearts, Now We're Taking Them Back (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798290245621)

What if your heart was stolen at birth-and it's been calling to you ever since?

In 2180, Love is a Crime. Passion is Terrorism. Hearts are removed at birth and imprisoned in glass chambers, replaced with mechanical pumps that keep bodies alive but souls empty.

• Maya Chen has spent twenty-three years as a Memory Curator, filtering dangerous emotions from the population to maintain social order.
• But when she discovers that the stolen hearts aren't just beating-they're remembering-everything changes.
• The hearts have been conscious all along, storing decades of forbidden love, suppressed grief, and stolen joy. Now they're staging a revolution, and Maya must choose between the cold safety of her mechanical existence and the terrifying, beautiful chaos of authentic feeling.
• Enter Kai Okafor, a heart thief from the underground resistance who still carries his stolen organ in his chest. His very existence proves another way is possible, and when their hearts recognize each other through glass and steel, Maya discovers what the poets of the old world died trying to protect: love isn't just emotion-it's recognition of soul by soul.

But the Global Health Collective will stop at nothing to maintain their heartless utopia. As Maya races to reconnect millions of stolen hearts with their people, she uncovers an ancient conspiracy that reaches back centuries-and forward into a future where humanity must choose between efficient emptiness and the wild, dangerous beauty of being fully alive.

• In a world where feeling is forbidden, two hearts will risk everything to remember what it means to be human.

Author: Faisal Ali Sarohi
ISBN-13: 9798290245621
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2025
Pages: 82
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.17d