Emma has a secret—and not the good kind. She can hear people's thoughts.

When Sara Davis, an adversarial school newspaper editor, convinces her to be the focus of the Senior Feature, Emma doesn't realize what she's getting herself into. Lacking Emma's cooperation, Sara writes the story anyway, setting off gossip and speculation. Worse yet, the article comes dangerously close to exposing Emma's secret and threatens her crush on the new boy at school, Nick Knight.

Keeping her "talent" from derailing her social life becomes more and more difficult as classmates begin to suspect Sara was right about Emma.