The Healer by Leslie Georgeson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I broke a rule to help a woman in need. I wanted to be her hero. And now it’s going to cost me…

Alissa

My brother’s recent death left me without protection in a violent city. Now the Spartans are hunting me…and they’ve just found me. With mere seconds before they break down my door, I send a quick text message to the only man who might help me. 

A hunky dreg named Nate. 

Nate

I broke a cardinal rule the day I gave Alissa Drake my phone number. Now I’ve put myself and all my dreg brothers at risk. 

But how can I ignore a woman in danger? She calls to me like no other. Stunning on the outside, shattered underneath. The pain in her damaged soul mirrors mine. 

For her, I want to break the rules. To change the world. My world. And make it ours.

But I can heal only physical wounds. Not a battered heart. 

Now the dominoes are falling. One by one. 

My dreg partner is missing. Our safety is at stake.

The gangs are closing in. And the clock is ticking.

If I am going to be her hero, I must go back to the life I fled. 

And become the killer I was trained to be.

The Healer

Another awesome super soldier story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💜❤️💚💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🤓😀😘☺️🥰

The heroine: Alissa – she is a former celebrity, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model. She is sister to Kenny, who was the leader of the Spartans gang in Augusta, Georgia. Augusta had been taken over by the gangs months ago and was a haven for gangland violence. Kenny had been killed weeks ago by the dregs after he kidnapped the daughter of one of them. Another dreg, called Nate had offered to get her out of the city at that time, but she turned him down, not wanting to be seen as a victim. But now the new leader, Romeo was out to get her.

The Hero: Nate – he was stolen from his mother when he was a boy, by a crazy general who was trying to create a team of super soldiers. He experimented on the boys with all sorts of drugs and animal DNA, many of them died, and the ones that didn’t were tortured with all types of pain and agony, kept prisoner in cells with only their cell mate to talk to. The ones that survived, developer supernatural abilities and a deep bond with their cell mate. Nate, known now as The Healer shares a bond with Antonio, the smuggler, they can feel each others’ emotions and pain. They have since escaped captivity and live in a maze deep below a crumbling mansion on a Georgia plantation.

The Story: The Spartans finally find Alissa who is still living in the city of Augusta, she is able to shoot off a text to Nate asking for help and she is definitely going to need it. Romeo plans to sell her to the leader of the Sureños gang, a man known as The Flesh King, because of his penchant for buying and selling women into the sex trade. Alissa already feels like she is a victim because of an event in her past when she was raped and brutalized, so she fears for her fate if Nate doesn’t somehow save her.

I had already read the first two books in this series, and I really liked both of them. I am a big fan of the genetically modified soldier trope and I love this series since they have already escaped from their prison and are living on their own. Though they are still being hunted so they have to be careful where they go and try not to be seen as much as possible. Nate was always the most compassionate and friendly one of the group of dregs, probably due to the fact that he is a healer. He can’t heal internal damage but can heal most wounds and take pain away, so he was a medic when they used the Dregs in the military, though they were still captive at that time.

One thing I hate in books like this is when someone is kidnapped and gets a tracker implanted and then gets rescued and forgets to immediately tell her rescuers about the tracker. That is all I would be thinking about if I were her. Getting that tracker out of me so I didn’t end up back in the same situation all over again. That is just one small pet peeve from this book, though it is the only one I had, otherwise this story was every bit as good as the first two in the series. There was a bunch of action and suspense as well as chemistry and steam between the two main characters.

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