I loved that it started off hard and raw, leading the reader down a painful road. Touched is such a great and amazing story!The best part about this book is the plot. Ou know those types of books that give such a rush that you want to do nothing but dive into the book over and over again? Yeah, that's this book. That made what she risked by being discovered as a Healer clearer and more dangerous. She loves them so much, and loves being with them. I really enjoyed the parts of the book that were about Remy and her new family and friends. He's her only source of information about this dangerous new world and she trusts him. The boy she meets turns out to be a Protector, but he assures her he doesn't want to harm her. She's a 'Healer' and her kind are involved in a war with the 'Protectors' (who before the war protected the healers in a partnership). For the first time in her ilfe she's happy and safe.

But her stepmother and half-sister are wonderful, and she comes to love them and her father. He's got a brand new family-a new wife, a new daughter-and Remy's afraid and angry. After her abusive stepfather murders her mother, Remy is sent to live with the biological father she never met. Remy lives with her mother and abusive stepfather. A recipient of a West Chester Poetry Conference scholarship, she is also the former Editor-in-Chief of two literary magazines, including Statement (CSU, Los Angeles) and Dash (CSU, Fullerton). She has bachelor's and master's degrees in English, and is in her third year of Spalding University's MFA program. For the last seven years, she has sharpened her marketing talents at Alcone Marketing, where she has won several industry awards. And if they catch her, they won't just injure her.Ĭorrine Jackson is a San Francisco transplant, having lived on both coasts from Southern California to New York City. But she'll also expose herself to capture by an old and very determined enemy. If she opens up to him, she might find out what it truly means to be a Healer. Asher seems to know more about Remy's abilities than she does-and maybe more than he's letting on.

She lives in fear of the day she's forced to mend a wound from which she can't recover-and she's desperate to keep her amazing ability a secret.Įnter Asher Blackwell, a scarred eighteen-year-old with dangerous powers of his own. But to 17-year-old Remy O'Malley, it's more like a curse.Įvery injury Remy heals becomes her own.

You'd think being able to heal people with a touch would be a blessing. Time may not heal all wounds-but she can.

Touched by Corrine Jackson