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Issued by Olivia Alder on September 7, 2026. Source: EIN Presswire.
Highly Compatible blends Silicon Valley satire, psychological suspense and dangerous romance in a world where even attraction can be optimized.
What if the same technology that knows what coffee you want, where you’re going and what you’ll buy next could also predict who you’ll fall for? Highly Compatible, the debut novel from Olivia Alder, is a psychological thriller about Silicon Valley, surveillance and a man who is either exceptionally attentive, or has very good data.
Set inside Panopteia, one of the world’s most powerful fictional technology companies, Highly Compatible follows Nina Jacobs, a rising product marketer whose job is turning invasive technology into features people can’t imagine living without.
Nina is good at making surveillance sound like safety, prediction sound like convenience and enormous quantities of personal data sound like excellent customer service. Then she meets Vincent Stone: brilliant, powerful, gorgeous and attentive to a degree that would be romantic if it weren’t also slightly impossible. He knows what Nina wants before she says it. Anticipates what she needs before she asks. Being around him feels effortless. Addictive, even.
Until Nina learns Panopteia is no longer interested only in predicting disasters. It wants to predict people: who they will trust, what they will do and what they will choose next. Suddenly, being understood starts to feel a lot like being watched. And one question becomes impossible to ignore: How much did Vincent know about her before any of this began?
“Silicon Valley is very good at taking something mildly alarming and giving it a friendly name, a beautiful interface and a button that says ‘allow,'” said Alder. “The interesting part is what happens when the technology makes your life so much better, that refusing the trade-off seems irrational.”
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