The Ghost Palate

In a future where real taste is extinct, sensations are streamed, sold, and weaponized.

Rainer Vane is a professional surrogate—a man whose damaged nervous system lets elites experience flavor through his body without consequence. When an illegal peach carries a hidden data-packet that kills its creator, Rainer becomes the only living vessel capable of holding the truth.

Hunted by corporate enforcers and guided by an underground archivist of forbidden flavors, Rainer is pulled into a sensory war where taste encodes murder, memory, and control. As stolen experiences flood back into the world, he must decide whether humanity deserves to feel again—or whether some hungers should stay extinct.

The Ghost Palate is a cyber-noir thriller about consumption, consent, and what remains human when experience itself becomes a commodity.

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