Intimate - Jennifer Crabtree;Jennifer Crabtree

What if love was the last thing technology couldn't replace... but the first thing it tried to control?

Ten years after the Collapse-when the world's digital backbone vanished overnight-humanity rebuilt slower, quieter... and more fragile than ever. In this new world, connection is no longer instant. It's earned. Felt. Lived.

But something is still breaking.

When Clair begins experiencing subtle neurological failures-tremors, memory gaps, moments of absence-her husband Micah refuses to accept the slow erosion of the woman he loves. As an engineer, he understands systems. As a husband, he refuses to lose hers.

So he makes a choice that could save her... or destroy everything.

Drawing on forbidden research from a fallen neural technology program, Micah begins building a device designed not to control the mind-but to stabilize it. To hold together what is quietly coming apart.

But the deeper they go, the more dangerous the question becomes:

Where is the line between healing... and rewriting what makes us human?

INTIMATE is not just science fiction-it's a deeply emotional exploration of: