The Overflow Protocol by Holly Herd

Corporate auditor Melina Carrington arrives at a secluded research facility to investigate troubling reports. What she uncovers challenges everything she knows about consent, control, and personal autonomy. As she delves deeper into the operation, professional boundaries blur and hidden protocols activate around her. The facility's clinical staff operate with cold precision, treating resistance as an irrelevant variable in their data-driven world. Melina's sharp mind and unyielding will become her only defenses against a system designed to override identity and enforce compliance. Tension builds through every inspection and interaction as she fights to retain her sense of self. This story explores themes of power imbalance, forced adaptation, and the enduring human spirit under extreme pressure. Readers seeking intense character-driven narratives with elements of transformation and institutional control will find a gripping, slow-burn experience centered on defiance and the cost of survival.