Healer's Touch (Deadly Touch book 1) [COMPLETE]

By Deb E. Howell

Published:14 March 2025

Last updated:15 March 2025

Word count:109658

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[Epic Romantic Fantasy]

Deadwood meets The Vampire Diaries in this tale of brother versus brother and blood-magic set in a gaslamp fantasy world.

Llew has a gift. Her body heals itself from any injury, at a cost to anyone nearby.

Llew’s father disappeared when she was eleven, leaving her orphaned, as far as she knew.

Since then, Llew has learned to survive the streets of the gold-mining town of Cheer – full of opportunistic men and desperation. It’s a hard existence made tougher when Llew's so-called friend accuses her of murder, sending her to the gallows.

Llew’s Aenuk ability to absorb life means she doesn’t stay dead for long, but she does leave a trail of death behind her.

Escaping the hangman’s noose sees Llew fall into the hands of Jonas: the man with the knife and the Karan power to kill Llew’s kind. If Llew can nurture the attraction he develops for her, maybe she can keep that knife from her heart.

But lurking in the shadows is Jonas’s half-brother, Braph: the man who has learned to combine Aenuk and Karan powers into infinite and addictive magical potential.

Healer's Touch is a fantasy novel flavoured with a wild west setting, steampunk-like technology, enough romance to draw you in, horror to keep you hooked, and just enough sex to keep things spicy.

Cover Art by Vimes Art

The Deadly Touch Series:

  1. Healer's Touch
  2. Warrior's Touch
  3. Magician's Touch (WIP)
  • Utra violence
  • Graphic Sexual Content
  • Graphic Drug Use
  • Strong Alcohol Use
  • Intense Horror
  • Very Strong Language
  • Graphic Abuse
  • Messy Gore
  • Self Harm
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Chapters

  1. The Dead Man
  2. Behind Every Great Man
  3. Innocent
  4. Cleaning Up The Streets
  5. To Kill The Unkillable
  6. I Won't Tell If You Don't
  7. Surprise
  8. Polite Company
  9. Your Secret
  10. One Condition
  11. The Child
  12. Love
  13. Leaving Aghacia
  14. A Whole New Country
  15. Again
  16. It's Just Sex
  17. Turhmos
  18. Stay Optimistic
  19. Growing Anxiety
  20. I'm Sorry
  21. It Wouldn't Kill Her
  22. Get Me Out Of Here
  23. Fight Him
  24. You Should've Saved Him
  25. Home
  26. Only You