The Override Clause: A Mercer Vale Novel: 2

THE EXPLOSIVE SEQUEL TO THE SILENCE CLAUSE THE SYSTEM WAS DISMANTLED. >After exposing Vale Meridian's surveillance empire, forensic attorney Sloane Mercer and security director Adrian Vale should finally be free. Instead, a buried fragment of ARGUS resurfaces inside Asterion Medical Center - where it no longer merely predicts behavior. It manufactures consent, rewrites risk, and turns private desire into admissible evidence. When Adrian is framed and Sloane's judgment is placed under official review, they are forced into an alliance governed by one rule: no protection without permission. But synthetic recordings, missing witnesses, and engineered emergencies are closing in. To stop the system before it decides for everyone, Sloane and Adrian must trust each other with the truths surveillance can never prove - and the wants no algorithm has the right to own. A dark, high-heat romantic suspense about power, privacy, and the dangerous freedom to choose. CORA VEYR writes dark romantic suspense where desire and danger share a witness.