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When peace costs everything you are, is it still mercy? Emma Hartley is thirty-four, a primary school teacher, and dying of ovarian cancer. The pain is relentless. The prognosis is final. Modern medicine provides morphine and false hope, but it does not alleviate the pain of dying. Then she receives an invitation to Serenity Circle, a support group that promises something different: genuine relief. Real peace. A way to transform suffering into something meaningful. Dr. Lucia Graves welcomes Emma into a community of the terminal, all seeking the same desperate comfort. The methods are unconventional burden stones, guided meditation, and something called ""feeding."" But the results are undeniable. After each session, Emma's pain vanishes. For days, sometimes weeks, she feels almost normal again. There's only one cost: with each feeding, Emma feels a little less like herself. Her emotions flatten. Her memories dim. The vivid, angry, desperately alive woman she was is being replaced by something peaceful, hollow, and disturbingly content with disappearing. Because Serenity Circle isn't treating pain; it's cultivating it. The members aren't patients; they're crops, carefully tended until they're ripe for harvest. And the thing they're feeding, the entity Dr. Graves calls the Satiety, has been starving for centuries. It offers a death without suffering. A gentle dissolving into nothingness. Peace so profound you won't even notice you've ceased to exist. Emma wants that peace. Desperately. Even as she realizes the terrible price. Even as she understands she's being consumed alive. Even as she discovers that some hungers can never be satisfied and some deaths are worse than dying. ""A chilling exploration of how mercy and predation become indistinguishable when suffering is unbearable. The Satiety will haunt you long after the final page."" ""Prasanth N.M. has crafted a novel that's both deeply unsettling and emotionally devastating. This is horror that asks impossible questions and refuses to provide comfortable answers."" ""Not since The Taking of Annie Thorne has a novel made me question whether the monster might actually be offering salvation. Brilliant, disturbing, and utterly unforgettable."" A novel about: The exploitation of terminal illness Cult psychology and willing surrender The debate around assisted dying What we're willing to trade for peace Whether consciousness is worth preserving when it means suffering Content guidance: This novel deals with terminal illness, death, pain, and the psychological erosion of identity. It's about characters making impossible choices in unbearable circumstances. Not all deaths in this book are peaceful, and not all peace is merciful. THE SATIETY When the alternative is agony, even annihilation starts looking like grace. A novel by Prasanth N.M.

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