Soft Power

Claire is a scientist working on exploiting bonding hormones to induce artificial trust for espionage and diplomacy. Julian is a covert ops agent incredibly adept at manipulating people with charm, confidence, and attention to detail. They have been close friends for years, having survived more than one impossible situation together. When Claire's most recent experiment has impacts far beyond her initial expectations, they find themselves hiding dangerous secrets while simultaneously being forced to expose others. Soft Power is a story about competent people in ridiculous situations, nerd humor, accurate hard science, absurdly bad soft science, and the strength of gentleness. What if there was a superhero powered by cuddles?