title: The Healer: A Novel
author:  Greg Hollingshead 
description: "<i>The Healer</i> is an accomplished novel which gives full rein to an imagination that moves equally freely in the realms of the bizarre and the everyday, asserting the covert connections between the two." -- <i><i>Times Literary Suplement</i></i><br /><br />"A mad-tongued Gothic tale, a blend of high drama and sly, dark marvels....an almost biblical rendering of accounts." -- <i>--<i>New York Times Book Review</i></i><br /><br />"Hollingshead has a remarkable skill at recreating small town Ontario lives. The voices ring utterly true, and the short scenes between characters, which play almost like a movie, are dynamic and ring with authority." -- <i>The Edmonton Journal, Canada</i><br /><br />"Hollingshead successfully captures the key elements in these people's lives as they grapple with rampaging forces outside themselves, discovering the healing resources within." -- <i><i>Seattle Times</i></i><br /><br />"Hollingshead writes with a governing absence of philosophy that vividly recalls the nihilisms of Cormac McCarthy. There are resonances of E. Annie Prouix, too, in his poetically compressed prose that imagines stark landscapes as richly unyielding as their beleaguered inhabitants." -- <i>The Guardian, London</i><br /><br />"The wilderness and the characters who inhabit it are evoked with writing that's both precise and lyrical." -- <i>Edmonton Entertainment Weekly, Canada</i><br /><br />"Wonderfully poetic and resonant....the descriptions of the Canadian landscape are incandescent." -- <i>The Times, London</i>
zlib_text: The Healer
  Allison Butler
  www.escapepublishing.com.au
  
  The Healer
  Allison Butler
  Curb your Outlander cravings with Allison Butler’s seriously sexy Scottish
  novel about an English woman, a Scottish Laird, a case of mistaken identity
  and a love that will surpass all barriers.
  An outcast in her own home for as long as she can remember, Lynelle
  Fenwick will do anything to earn her father’s approval. Including
  exaggerating her healing skills, and setting off alone to rescue her step-
  brother from a band of raiding Scots.
  Living under a curse that has haunted the Closeburn Clan for years, Laird
  William Kirkpatrick, will do anything to save his sole surviving brother. He
  may not believe in curses, but his clan does, and the growing number of
  graves seems to support their side. Having banished all healers from the
  clan for trickery, he has no choice but to allow an Englishwoman, claiming
  to be a skilled healer, into his home and into the room of his wounded
  brother.
  Enemies by birth and circum