Healer's
Touch
by Anne Gray
Sumach Press,
2008.
ISBN 9781894549776 pbk.
288 pages
Sixteen-year-old Dovella discovers formidable
new abilities, as she takes on a power-hungry sorcerer
in her latest mission to protect her people. The plains
tribe sorcerer Fvlad is gathering forces to conquer
the lands and enslave the minds of the Villagers. There
is no time to lose for the young healer Dovella. She
must travel to a nearby Forester village of skilled
shagines to learn how to harness her extraordinary gifts
to resist the invading sorcerer. Only if she can master
these skills quickly will she be able to save
her village from disaster. But an ancient prophecy alerts
the sorcerer Fvlad to the existence of a many-gifted
one. This is the key his plans for conquest. Believing
that Dovella is needed to fulfill the prophecy, he captures
and imprisons her while he tries to bend her will to
his own ends. But do even Fvlad’s own followers
know the true extent of his ambitions? When Dovella
learns that the sorcerer has traitors working for him
in the Village, she is desperate to get word back home
to the Security Master. But under the fierce eye of
her fanatical guard Maleem, she sees no possibility
of escape.
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Rites
of the Healer
by Anne Gray
Sumach
Press, 2006.
ISBN 10: 1-894549-59-7 pbk.
ISBN 13:978-1-894549-59-2 pbk.
290 pages
Set in an alternative world in which the
technology is failing, sixteen-year-old Dovella undertakes
a journey to save her people from political and religious
upheaval. Dovella is a Village engineering apprentice
who has a rare healing Gift, but because of the danger
facing her people, she must journey immediately. This
means giving up her life's dream: to go through the
rites of the healer.
Intertwined with the story of Dovella's
difficult and dangerous journey are the events in the
Village. These make the success of her journey critical,
as the Council's opponents attempt to gain control through
violence and sabotage.
Although set in a fantasy world, Rites
of the Healer explores many of the dilemmas facing
contemporary teens.
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