The Healer
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Publisher Description
Becoming a doctor is all Ilona ever dreamed of, especially with her parents being the best in their medical fields until a car accident forces her to re-evaluate her choices. Scarred and alone, she finds herself in a small town buried in snow, but worse, she's forced to use her medical skills to heal shifters.
One shifter has her knees trembling, but when she discovers he likes her because she looks like the woman he's crushing on, Ilona flees, unwilling to risk her fragile heart.
Rhys pines for a woman he can never have, believing he lost his mate to a vampire. But on a visit with his brother, when he discovers a doctor with the same last name as his crush, he prays her blood will trigger the mating urge and free him from unrequited love.
The problem is, Ilona's blood does summon his primal urges, but she won't believe his interest is sincere. Now he needs to find her and prove he loves her, and only her.
Customer Reviews
Enjoyable read
The Healer is the second book in the Blood of Legends series. I haven’t read the first, but I think this stood alone well. It’s a dual-POV story that follows Ilona, a doctor fresh off her residency, and Rhys, the new alpha of his shifter pack. After a personal tragedy derails Ilona’s career, her grandmother sends her to a rural shifter community where Rhys is visiting his brother and taking some much-needed time off. Rhys becomes infatuated after startling her on the snowy roadside in his bear form. Unbeknownst to her, she shares blood with the woman he wants—and can’t have.
Unfortunately for Rhys, Ilona isn’t up for dealing with shifter nonsense or risking a broken heart. But roped into filling in for the shifter’s country doctor and recognizing the importance of shifter blood’s healing properties, she can’t quite pull herself away. Until she realizes it’s her bloodline that got Rhys’s attention. Ilona is not about to be anyone’s consolation prize. Rhys must prove he truly loves her (and no one else) or lose the mate he’s destined for.
I love the female lead in this book. Ilona’s a realistic mix of resilient and vulnerable. She’s intelligent, pragmatic, and devoted to her craft. While she knows her limits, she still pushes them and cares for others without putting herself last. I also love her sassy grandma.
Rhys is hot, obviously—he never lets his alpha side get the better of his kindness or sense of responsibility.
I also liked the worldbuilding in this novel. I haven’t read too many books where vampires and werecreatures live separately from but harmoniously and known to humans. I loved the snowy, rural setting, too.
This is the first shifter novel, paranormal romance, and ebook I’ve read cover to cover. Much to my eternal shame, I’m a slow reader, but I devoured this book in 3 days.
Fun, steamy, and relaxing, the Healer was what a novel should be—enjoyable. I recommend it to anyone who needs more romance and monsters in their lives.