Shattered Echo — Alex Westmore

For fourteen years, she lived as an unwanted Jane Doe.

But when her empathic powers suddenly and violently kick in, she becomes a supernatural empath who is as much a risk to herself as to others. Fleeing both her old name and the new nightmare her life has become, Echo Branson seeks a mentor deep in the Louisiana Bayou who can help her control her newfound abilities.

Re-emerging four years later into a world where she must hide her supernatural talents, Echo begins a career as an investigative reporter and immerses herself in a story that will rock the city of San Francisco. Fearing persecution -- and worse -- because of her paranormal abilities, she quickly learns to keep everyone at arm's length. She must protect, at all costs, her true self and the family she has come to love.

Can someone so different find safety and friends, let alone love, in a society that denies her very existence?