These PDFs are Advance Reader Copies of Lies of Consent: Vol.1 – A Romance Under Observation. These first 26 chapters are intended for early readers, reviewers, agents and book clubs who enjoy discussion-driven, psychological fiction. Please email me at rauelcrespo@gmail.com with a review and I will post it.
Lies of Consent: Volume 2 – A Love Preserved
The contracts were clear.
The opportunity was generous.
The future looked secure.
Amelia Winters believed in informed decisions. Chase believed he could outthink any system that threatened the people he loved. Together, they step into what promises to be a demonstration of innovation — private, exclusive, and designed for long-term security.
The space is immaculate.
The light is warm.
The air is perfectly still.
Then something doesn’t respond.
Above them, observers frame outcomes in charts and projections. Below, love confronts a design that was never meant to be temporary. The paperwork insists everything is voluntary. The system calls it protection.
A Love Preserved continues the descent into a world where surveillance feels like safety, performance feels like partnership, and consent begins to blur at the edges.
Corporate Gothic.
Romance under observation.
A future optimized past the point of comfort.
Welcome back.
Comparable in spirit to Better Call Saul, Lies of Consent: Volume 2 – A Love Preserved continues its quiet examination of how intelligent people walk willingly into systems that slowly outgrow them. It retains the self-aware warmth and found-family humor of Community, but tightens the lens—trading campus chaos for corporate inevitability. Like Severance, it explores environments designed to feel safe while something essential is being negotiated away. It carries the emotional vulnerability of Her, where intimacy feels fragile under technological mediation, and the pattern-recognition tension of Mr. Robot, where awareness arrives a little too late to stop momentum. This is character-driven speculative fiction where love isn’t tested by villains, but by architecture—and where the most unsettling question isn’t who trapped them, but when the trap became reasonable.+