Eleanor Hollis-Morrow is twenty-two years old, living alone in a city apartment, and working as a legal transcriptionist. Her life is small by design. She has tried larger, and larger did not hold.
What Eleanor carries has no name she uses out loud: an ability to feel the emotional states of people around her, to know things before she can account for knowing them, to read a room before she enters it. She has spent two decades learning to manage it, to keep it contained, to seem unremarkable. She is very good at all of it.
When investigative journalist Petra Voss approaches her with a tip about a property fraud case, Eleanor does not expect to find anything. What she finds instead is a chain of falsified records, hidden connections, and three people in a warehouse on a street she had no official reason to look at. The evidence she builds is airtight. Her name appears nowhere in it.
Being useful without being seen is the only arrangement Eleanor has ever trusted. 

A Sense of Justice is the third book in the Star Child series, and the first in which Eleanor asks whether that arrangement is enough.