No One Should Need Anyone
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Elias Venn makes a career of keeping people safely independent. Then a stubborn household and a child’s attachment challenge his categories. This near-future satire follows the human cost of replacing lasting relationships with carefully managed services—and the people who keep showing up anyway.
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Elias Venn is good at his job. As a senior reviewer for the Bureau of Relational Autonomy, he helps a society protect its citizens from the risks of depending too much on one person. Companionship, parenting, and care have become separately managed functions.
Then the Bell household refuses to fit the model. Working with child-continuity specialist Mara Vale, Elias encounters relationships that the records classify more easily than they explain. A child’s need for a particular adult and the ordinary work of family life begin unsettling his confidence.
No One Should Need Anyone combines dry bureaucratic humor with a humane inquiry into freedom, obligation, and belonging. This first novel in a two-book sequence follows the discovery of what a well-intentioned system loses when it treats durable commitment as a problem to solve.
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| Author | Dr. John P. Elcik IV |
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