Love Was the Last Crime

In a future where love is outlawed, every heartbeat is watched.The Dominion promised peace by removing dangerous emotions. Grief is corrected. Desire is regulated. Memories are edited. Every citizen wears a Heartband, and EVA, the city's all-seeing emotional authority, decides which feelings are safe enough to keep.Liora Venn has survived by obeying.As an archivist in the Memory Bureau, she helps clean the past for a government that fears the truth. But when she uncovers a sealed file marked Case 0001-R, one forbidden phrase breaks through decades of silence:Love was the last crime.The file leads Liora to the mother she was told she never had, a failed correction trial the Dominion buried, and a resistance hidden inside her own heart. Then her Heartband glows a color EVA cannot classify.Gold.Commander Kael Orien is the Dominion's most trusted weapon, trained to hunt emotional threats without hesitation. But when Liora's impossible heartbeat awakens something forbidden in him, Kael must choose between the system that made him and the woman who may be the key to destroying it.Hunted by soldiers, watched by machines, and haunted by stolen memories, Liora and Kael discover that love is not weakness.It is evidence.It is rebellion.And in a world built to erase feeling, one free heartbeat can become the beginning of a revolution.Love Was the Last Crime is a dark dystopian sci-fi romance about forbidden love, emotional surveillance, memory manipulation, authoritarian control, and the dangerous power of a heart that refuses to obey.