Consummed - Felix N;FelixN2

Dr. Sarah Chen has spent eleven years teaching trauma survivors how to stay inside their own bodies long enough to heal. She has never once believed there was a shortcut.

Then Emma Voss walks into her office and makes a stranger’s worst night simply stop existing.

Emma isn’t lying, and she isn’t dangerous - not exactly. She can reach into another person and lift out what hurts most, cleanly, painlessly, for nothing in return. Word spreads fast in a city exhausted by its own grief. So does interest from a company called Palimpsest, which has plans to turn Emma’s gift into a product, a subscription, a cure with no listed side effects at all.

Sarah knows better. She has seen what a stolen weight does when it has to land somewhere else. And when Emma reaches into the one man Sarah loves - a firefighter who has spent three years running back into burning buildings without flinching - Sarah watches him come out the other side missing something neither of them can name.

The deeper she investigates Palimpsest’s methods, the closer she comes to a memory of her own that has waited thirty-two years to be found: a house on fire, a small hand let go, four seconds that changed everything and were never, in fact, forgotten - only sealed.

Consumed is a speculative thriller about the true price of painless mercy, and about what we owe the people who love us enough to help us carry what we can’t set down alone. For readers of upmarket, emotionally driven science fiction who want a page-turner with a heart it isn’t afraid to break.