Walking Wounded

"Walking Wounded is well-suited to an era of alternative lifestyles, New Age mysticism and senseless violence." -Publishers Weekly "At the heart of all Devereaux's writing are the twin embryos of love and pain. In Walking Wounded he has explored their perverse dependency with an expert's tender touch. This book is both a challenge and a rare treat!" -Poppy Z. Brite Katt has the power to heal disease with her touch. Every day she saves lives and no one knows. But her heart is filled with hate-hate toward her cheating husband. After he is diagnosed with Huntington's disease, Katt learns she can make illness worse. It's the power to commit the perfect murder. But a local serial killer armed with a power-drill has entered their lives and the perfect murder just got a lot messier... From Robert Devereaux, the celebrated master of bizarre horror, comes a novel of love, betrayal, and death by power-tools.

From Publishers Weekly

In his second erotic thriller, Devereaux (Deadweight) carves deep into the psyche of Katt, a disillusioned wife who must choose between using her miraculous powers to cure her terminally ill and cheating husband, or letting him die and taking his lover for herself. Caught in the middle of this wild love triangle is Conner, Katt's 13-year-old son, who has inherited his father's disease. A drill-wielding serial killer, introduced early, further complicates the plot and plays a vital role in the novel's climax. Beautiful and sensual one page, frighteningly repulsive and twisted the next, Walking Wounded is well-suited to an era of alternative lifestyles, New Age mysticism and senseless violence. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher

Katt's hands can sense it within your body: the ticking time bomb of disease, the cry of inner hurt, the coming of something as simple as a cold. If she chooses, her hands can heal you, removing the aberration quickly, or they can leave you with your pain -- and your fate.Now, Katt must choose between curing an unfaithful husband and letting him die, between taking his extraordinary lover for herself, or letting her go.For Katt it will be a journey through discovery, sensuality, and death. But in the shadows of her life, at a restaurant and on the street, a serial killer has begun to stalk her and her lover. And he will take them both into a darkness where hands must heal, or hands must kill.

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