9781934572337 | 1 edition (Emerald Book Co, October 1, 2009), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this unsettling new fantasy novel, the psychiatric community has confused Empathic personality traits with mental illness with tragic results, leading two Empaths--Francis Nettleton and Katherine Spencer--who live three hundred years apart, on personal journeys to learn the true nature of Empathy.