Love Roulette: The Crimson Sector by Major Vusi Rubushe, Vusi Rubushe

In the Unified Republic, emotion is a death sentence.

The state maintains absolute control by chemically gutting human feelings and enforcing breeding quotas through the brutal "Heart-Sync" grid. Then Trevor rejects his high-born match. His devotion to Daisy, an underground insurgent, tanks his conformity score to zero.

Dragged to the hyper-violent Crimson Sector, Trevor faces "Love Roulette"—a sadistic psychological meatgrinder engineered to erase the soul. To keep his mind intact and shield Daisy from execution, Trevor must butcher his way through the arena, breach the frontier wall, and incinerate the system from the outside