THE JURY WHISPERER She can predict any verdict in seventeen minutes. Riley Chen has never been wrong. At seventeen, Riley's uncanny ability to read jury dynamics has earned her early admission to Yale and the attention of powerful people who want what she can do. When a high-profile defense attorney recruits her to consult on a controversial murder trial, Riley believes she's stepping into the future she was meant for. But the case is strange from the start. The defendant insists his therapist altered people's behavior in ways no one can prove. And during jury selection, Riley begins losing time, blackouts she can't explain, decisions she doesn't remember making, outcomes that feel too perfect to be coincidence. As unsettling patterns surface in her own past, Riley starts to question the source of her gift. Are her instincts truly hers…or something planted long ago? And if her perceptions can shape outcomes, what else might they be quietly influencing? The closer the trial moves toward a verdict, the more Riley realizes that someone may be using her abilities for a purpose far larger, and far more dangerous, than winning a case. Because if thoughts can be guided, memories rewritten, and choices subtly steered…
how do you know where your mind truly ends? Some verdicts are decided in the courtroom.
Others are decided inside the mind.