This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. THE BOY ON THE In the world of Contact Telepath, some people are born with a quiet, inconvenient gift.

By touching another person’s skin – a hand, a shoulder, a careless brush of fingers – they can feel the rough shape of the other’s emotions. Joy, fear, guilt, longing: not the details of a thought, but the weather of a heart. These people are called contact telepaths.

Compared to the rare “non-contact” telepaths who can read minds at a distance, they are far more common. In cities like New York, it is said that more than a million people carry this sleeping ability without ever putting a name to it. Most will live and die thinking they are simply “too sensitive”, “too tired”, or “too strange”.