Thornfruit

Alizhan can¿t see faces, but she can read minds. Her mysterious ability leaves her unable to touch or be touched without excruciating pain. Rescued from abandonment and raised by the wealthy and beautiful Iriyat ha-Varensi, Alizhan has grown up in isolation, using her gift to steal secrets from Iriyat¿s rivals, the ruling class of Laalvur. But Iriyat keeps secrets of her own.When Alizhan discovers that she isn¿t the only one of her kind, and that a deadly plot threatens everyone like her, there¿s only one person she can trust.Evreyet Umarsad¿¿Ev¿ to her parents and her one friend¿longs to be the kind of hero she reads about in books. But the rest of the world feels impossibly far away from her life on a farm outside Laalvur.