Deadly Touch

The Deadly Touch series focuses on Aenuks (people who can transfer life) and Kara (people who are especially fast and strong). In both cases, The Sy varieties are further enhanced: Syaenuks can return from death, Syakara are even faster and stronger than Kara.   Because transferring life means leaving death behind (healing a wound on a human or animal will kill small plants, or leave another animal or person weakened), Aenuks are feared and hated by many. Just one nation makes use of them in its army: Turhmos. And it doesn't allow its Aenuks to walk free...     Llew has a gift. Her body heals itself from any injury, at a cost to anyone nearby. Llew’s father disappeared when she was eleven, leaving her orphaned, as far as she knew. Since then, Llew has learned to survive the streets of the gold-mining town of Cheer – full of opportunistic men and desperation. It’s a hard existence made tougher when her so-called friend accuses Llew of murder, sending her to the gallows.   Llew’s Aenuk ability to absorb life means she doesn’t stay dead for long, but she does leave a trail of death behind her.   Escaping the hangman’s noose sees Llew fall into the hands of Jonas: the man with the knife and the Karan power to kill Llew’s kind. If Llew can nurture the attraction he has to her, maybe she can keep that knife from her heart.   But lurking in the shadows is Jonas’s half-brother, Braph: the man who has learned to combine Aenuk and Karan powers into infinite and addictive magical potential.     Once upon a time, the last Immortal lost his powers to an Aenuk Healer and her tree. Nine hundred years later, he learns that an Immortal child is going to be born, and with it, a chance to regain his lost magic...   The Kara and Aenuk races have been enemies for centuries, but for Llew and Jonas, love won out. Now Llew faces an uncertain future: one nation wants her to breed their future army, and the other wants her dead. Her Healing talent also means she is feared – and the child she carries makes her a target.   Jonas has returned to his people, but he is torn. The woman he loves is being kept away from him, his superiors want him to carry on his bloodline with an appropriate mate, and he's being expected to fit back into a role he no longer wants. He is meant to be a hero, but the only champion he wants to be is Llew's and their child – a child who might change everything.   But for their enemy to regain his powers, Llew's child must die; and in order to retain them, every Aenuk must be destroyed.   In Warrior's Touch, loyalties will be tested, lives torn apart and magics rejoined.   The work-in-progress...