Book excerpt: Dark secrets fill the halls and classrooms of high school. But can you keep them from infecting your heart. Fifteen-year-old nonverbal autistic Prudy Radicci lives with her older sister in Jersey City. A girl with many secrets. She is a psychic that can access the internet with her brain, which comes in handy being non-verbal. If only she could reveal it to the world. Other kids in her school have secrets, too. Like Jordan. A smart and beautiful girl in her class. A girl with slices on her arms. When a project throws Prudy and Jordan together, secrets collide. Secrets that awaken a new side to Prudy. Secrets that may harm Prudy. Buy The Emptiness Above and experience a dark, mysterious love story about the faces we hide from the world.