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Welcome to the TRB Lounge. Today, we are featuring Olivia Alder for her latest release, Highly Compatible.

Book: Highly Compatible
Author: Olivia Alder
Series:
Publication Date: September 11, 2026
Pages: 219 pages
Publisher: Sycamore Studios LLC
Genre: Romance (Dark Romance, Suspense); Technothriller, Thriller/suspense
Available in: Paperback and e-book
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About the Book

Nina Jacobs has built her career making dangerous things sound safe.

At Panopteia, the world’s most powerful technology company, she makes their most invasive technology sound like care: prediction becomes protection, surveillance becomes safety. The future becomes something people are grateful to surrender to.

Then she catches the attention of Vincent Stone, the brilliant engineer who notices her and turns that same precision on her. He is brilliant, powerful, and dangerous in the quietest possible way. He knows what she wants and makes surrendering to him feel like relief. Precise. Inevitable. Almost beautifully managed.

But Panopteia is built on the belief that people are patterns, and patterns can be predicted. As Nina is drawn deeper into Vincent’s world, her body, behavior, and choices become part of the machine she helped sell.

And the closer she gets to Vincent, the harder it becomes to tell whether she is choosing the life she wants, or whether the life she wants has been choosing her all along.

Highly Compatible is a sensual near-future romance about ambition, obsession, corporate power, and the dangerous pleasure of being known too well.

You can find Highly Compatible here
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About the Author

Olivia Alder

Olivia Alder has spent enough time around beautiful dashboards, visionary men, and frictionless futures to know that the danger usually arrives well-designed. She writes dark, near-future, sensual fiction about power, desire, technology, and the intimate places where optimization becomes control.
Highly Compatible is her first novel.

You can find author Alder here:
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