Can You Feel Me Now?

What if you could finally feel exactly what another person feels?No guessing. No hiding behind words. No wondering whether someone is afraid, grieving, angry, in love — or lying.When therapist Lia Berg begins using TransFeel, a revolutionary technology that allows people to share emotional states, the results seem extraordinary. Couples understand each other in minutes after years of talking past one another. Hidden pain becomes visible. Silence becomes measurable. Empathy becomes something you can switch on.At first, Lia believes the technology might change human connection for the better.Then the feelings begin to linger.Memories appear where they should not. Emotional residue crosses from one person into another. Private experiences become data. Corporations discover that human feeling is extraordinarily valuable — and society begins treating emotional access as proof of honesty, love, innocence and trust.Soon the question is no longer whether TransFeel works.It is who gets to decide what another person's feelings mean.As Lia is drawn deeper into the world of TransFeel, DeepFeel and the people fighting over their future, she must confront a terrifying possibility: understanding another person completely may not be intimacy at all.It may be possession.Darkly funny, unsettling and deeply human, Can You Feel Me Now? is a speculative novel about empathy, consent, emotional surveillance and the dangerous belief that knowing more about someone gives us the right to know everything.Because feeling someone is not the same as understanding them.And understanding them is not permission.