Hidden Talents
A sexy psychic drama filled with humor, angst, and one ferocious enemies-to-lovers romance.
A trickster telepath running for his life. A yakuza concubine trying to go straight. A surly young torture survivor who just wants some pizza. These are just a few of the beautiful weirdos called Talents. Born with extraordinary abilities, they live at the mercy of their own minds — and in the shadow of K.G.A., a sinister corporation prepared to enslave them all.
When the mischievous mind reader Jin is sent to infiltrate a group of rogue Talents as part of a plot to overthrow K.G.A., he finds himself sidetracked by Ken, a sullen outsider with powers he can’t decipher — and a strange allure he can’t resist. As the walls close in, Jin, Ken, and the rest of the Talents will have to decide where their loyalties lie…and what they’re willing to sacrifice.
Can rebel psychics and dysfunctional superhumans unite to defeat their common enemy? Or will the drama kill them first?
The Hidden Talents Omnibus Edition contains the complete Hidden Talents series, originally released as nine novellas and later as a trilogy of novels (Rebel Hell, Wind Change, Hard Games). This newly formatted edition includes scenes that were not included in the original novellas or trilogy.
Content Warnings
Mental Health
Grief, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, trauma and more.
Hidden Talents explores themes of mental health via the experiences of people with psychic abilities. Mental disorder and emotional trauma are recurring antagonists that the characters have to reckon with as they struggle to find harmony with their own extraordinarily powerful minds.
Substance Use
Note that this is a book about people with superhuman abilities, and so does not dive deeply into the real-life physical effects or risks of substance addiction.
Alcohol: Occasional social drinking. One half-hearted attempt at a drinking binge in Part II, Chapter 68.
Heroin: A recovering heroin addict experiences a relapse in Part I, Chapter 22.
Cannabis: Characters smoke cannabis therapeutically in Part I, Chapter 14, and recreationally in Part II, Chapter 50. A character who appears late in Part II is described as a regular cannabis user, and is implied to be using it to relieve anxiety.
Abuse & Exploitation
The effects of physical, emotional, and sexual trauma are a major theme in the story, but these events are recalled in broad strokes without explicit detail. There are no graphic depictions of abuse on page.
Child abuse: Multiple characters experienced physical and sexual abuse in childhood. There are no graphic depictions of child abuse on page.
Sexual abuse: Past incidents of sexual abuse are referenced without explicit detail.
Human trafficking & sex trafficking: At least two characters are survivors of human trafficking and sex trafficking.
Physical torture: A main character was imprisoned and tortured for most of his life. For the most part, the details are only hinted at.
Violence & Death
There are multiple fight scenes in the book. No gore. Deaths are referenced on and off page, and there is one major supporting character death.
Sex
The story features an ensemble cast and multiple pairings with a variety of sexual values. There is no cheating.
Many kinds of sex occur in this story, including rough sex, hate sex, casual sex, and soft, romantic sex.
Most of the sexual encounters in the story are M/M, but Hidden Talents features multiple bisexual characters and there are two significant M/F scenes.