Teenage Joe Nolan's telepathy turns an intimate mistake into a dangerous lesson about secrets, long before the government sends him to Brightside.
Teenage Joe Nolan's telepathy turns an intimate mistake into a dangerous lesson about secrets, long before the government sends him to Brightside. Before telepaths were rounded up and locked away in Brightside, Joe Nolan was just a teenager drowning in everyone else's thoughts. A compromising encounter with Mandy forces him to reckon with desire, secrecy, embarrassment, and the cost of knowing what someone else never meant to say out loud. A short prequel to the Brightside Saga. Read it before or after the novel; longtime readers will catch more of what it quietly reveals about Joe. Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Black Mirror, and psychological science-fiction thrillers. Every secret has a price. Joe is just learning the exchange rate.
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