Comprehension

Daniel Carr has already chosen the night he's going to die.A burned-out high school teacher, he's alone in a bare apartment with a mattress on the floor, a suicide note on the counter, and a pharmacy's worth of pills lined up like communion wafers. Then, in a moment of absolute despair, something impossible happens.He slips.Not out of life, but out of himself.Suddenly Daniel is inside a stranger's mind, feeling their memories and grief as if they were his own. With a single thought he can nudge, soothe, make them see what they've been hiding from. A grieving couple finally speak the truth about their dead daughter. A bullied boy understands his tormentor. A priest and a young addict share a moment of terrifying, holy clarity.Every "miracle" leaves Daniel more certain that this is why he was spared.But the more lives he touches, the more damage he leaves behind. People cling to visions they don't understand. Secrets ripped open can't be pushed back down. And each time Daniel steps into someone else's head, a little more of his own identity comes loose.What starts as radical empathy becomes an addiction to other people's pain, and a violation no one consented to.When Daniel meets a mind darker than anything he's ever entered, he has to decide whether he's still trying to save people..or just looking for a place to disappear.Comprehension is a 38,000-word psychological thriller about suicide, faith, trauma, and the terrifying side of being needed, perfect for readers of dark literary and mind-bending speculative fiction