Kate meets the Gauze Man at a time in her life in which she feels it's best to not be part of the world anymore. He just wants to get through life with the knowledge that his Midas touch can turn a human being into a slick of oily goo. All she needs to do is convince him to touch her. All he needs to do is never touch anyone ever again.
The Touch is Part 1 of The Gauze Man story which explores the intimacy of despair in a universe where the "nothing" is a living thing, waiting for the right mix of personality to escape and envelope our world.
AI cover, image for the first chapter is AI, the blurb sounds like AI wrote it, and guess what the inside sounds like. Did you guess AI? Because it definitely reads like AI.
I miss the days when people wrote books and hired artists for covers. Now we just have horrible AI slop being pushed out for every person looking to make a quick buck.