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Toronto, 2047. A new treatment promises to solve the one thing medicine has never been able to fix: emotional pain. ARC therapy doesn't erase memory. It doesn't rewrite the past. It simply reduces the intensity of grief, trauma, and anxiety-making suffering livable. For Dr. Nadia Serrano, ARC is a breakthrough in distress regulation. Patients sleep. Panic fades. Emergency admissions drop. The data is clean. Then her partner enrolls. Adrian sleeps through the night for the first time in months. His grief softens. His suffering becomes ""manageable."" And when others see the change, they follow. Adoption surges. Monitoring windows shrink. Political support locks the program into place before long-term data can stabilize. Nothing looks wrong. No one is destabilizing. No one is collapsing. But something is shifting. As ARC expands beyond the clinic and into the culture, Nadia begins tracking a different kind of outcome-one the system isn't measuring. Because when pain is dulled, love dulls too. And once a population chooses quiet over intensity, there may be no returning to who they were before. The Stillness Protocol is a gripping near-future thriller about engineered relief, systemic momentum, and the hidden cost of making suffering optional. Perfect for readers of cerebral science fiction, ethical thrillers, and speculative dystopia.

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