Hearing You by Parker Avrile

Bitten by a mutant scorpion in a motorcycle club initiation gone terribly wrong, former rich kid Damon awakens with the power to read minds. Most of them aren't worth reading. Except for Steele's...

Damon doesn't belong in this Arizona town. Until a few months ago, he was out and proud and studying theater in his Brooklyn prep school. Then his father went to prison, and Damon was shipped off to live with his redneck uncle. There's no way he's joining his cousin's MC— even if one of the riders has the most amazing hazel eyes.

Steele figures the New York boy can't be interested in a guy covered in dragon tats. But he wants Damon near him just the same. Why not initiate him into the MC? It's one bite. They've all gone through it.

Who knew that this particular scorpion's bite would give Damon the power to see straight into Steele's soul?

"Reading Steele" is a 13,000-word novella about two eighteen-year-olds from different worlds...