the Root Canal of Universe : A Dark Comedy Sci-Fi Thriller: (Book One Dental Telepath Chronicles)

Bernie Fennel has $569, a failing practice wedged between a nail salon and a vape shop, and an ex-wife marrying a chiropractor. Then, halfway through a root canal, he hears his patient thinking. All of it. Including the secret worth $800 in cash.One blackmail later, the dentist has a new specialty: extracting what people hide instead of what hurts. The money is easy. The migraines aren't. And the beacon he's become has been noticed - by a collector in a suit that can't decide on a color, by an empire of minds the size of weather, and by the thing in the dark between worlds that eats exactly what Bernie is now full of.Soon he's bluffing his way into an alien court as a "xenodontal specialist," keeping a dead woman's memory alive in his own skull, and holding the files above a dying god whose secret could start - or stop - a war. He has the hands for the job. What he doesn't have is permission. In an empire built on the difference between asking and taking, a man who spent his whole life taking has to learn to be handed something first.The Root Canal of the Universe is a dark comedy, a space opera, and a first-contact adventure with actual teeth - wildly funny, unexpectedly tender, and more aware of filing procedures than any book has a right to be.- For readers of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Project Hail Mary, and The House in the Cerulean Sea- Grief, hope, jellyfish empires, and one very laminated crab- Book One of the Dental Telepath Chronicles - ends on a patient no dentist could refuse