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Book Blurb

When James first discovers he can heal, he thinks he has a rare and miraculous gift. But when he learns the price, it feels more like a curse. He falls passionately and completely in love with every person, male or female, he heals. But only until he heals again, when he becomes hotly infatuated with the next person. He doesn’t dare express feelings he knows are only transitory or hold out hope anyone will love him back under those conditions.

One night, he meets Ambient, the victim of a car accident, dying, his neck broken. James heals him despite knowing what is in store. He can’t resist Ambient, and to his amazement, Ambient returns his feelings. Thinking Ambient has broken the curse, James heals the next injured person he comes across. To his joy, and confusion, he does not fall in love anew. If anything, his feelings toward Ambient intensify. Awash with the certainty that somehow, he and Ambient are meant for each other, they set out to learn the truth about James’s strange power.

 

Book Review

Healing powers that cause the one who uses them to fall in love with every person he rescues are unusual, and the idea had me curious to read this book. James has had this and other powers all his life, and even though he does not like the effect healing others has on him and he avoids people as much as he can, he has gotten used to his power. When he meets Ambient one night and saves his life despite knowing what will happen, he is shocked to find out that everything has changed. And to my delight that was not the only unexpected event in this imaginative story about two unusual men who go on a quest to find out who or what they are.

James lives in his RV and travels cross country wherever he believes it’s likely he’ll find the smallest number of people. He doesn’t like the agony he feels every time he has healed someone, falls in love with them, then has to deal with the pain of staying away so they can get back to their normal lives. James is a good guy who wouldn’t hurt a fly, but he knows his powers could be used to hurt others, and he doesn’t want ever to have to use them in that way.

Ambient has finished college, loves playing his guitar, and is on his way to an audition when a truck barrels into him and he ends up with a broken neck. He has no idea what James has done to help him, not at first, but he does feel drawn to him. Enough to accept James’s offer to give him a lift home – only that drive is the beginning of an adventure and a journey of discovery neither James nor Ambient could have imagined.

James and Ambient quickly figure out that they are attracted to each other. But more than that, it feels as though they are meant to be together. Not the first time you have heard this in a paranormal story? Same here – except what the author has come up with as an explanation is pretty unique, a fascinating concept, and had me glued to the pages. In a mixture of James and Ambient using what looks like arcane powers and some very modern-day bad guys who go all scientific to get what they want, this tale had me spellbound to find out what was going on and how the heck James and Ambient were going to get out of the dreadful mess they eventually end up in. And no, I can’t say any more without spilling the surprise. And it’s a whopper!

If you like stories about unexplained paranormal powers and the people who wield them without knowing why, if you want to find out what two young men who meet by coincidence are really meant to do with their lives, and if you’re looking for a read that is mysterious, intense, suspenseful, and full of surprises, then you will probably like this novel as much as I do. I am glad there is a second book set in this world!

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 216 pages/68757 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	10-March-2014
Price	$6.99 ebook, $14.99 paperback, $14.99 bundle
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/another-healing-by-m-raiya-1561-b