Happy Release Day!
Congratulations Melissa
on the release today of
A Healing Touch!
A Healing Touch by Melissa A. Hansen
New Adult & College Romance, 292 pages
Published February 24, 2024 by mah
A hazy night rips away nineteen year old, Natasha Wakefield’s innocence. Weeks from the end of what had been a great freshman year in college. Natasha no longer feels safe and finds herself withdrawing from her friends and family. Instead of returning home to Riverview for the summer, Natasha lands a dream internship at a local architecture firm. She focuses on work and tries to ignore the pain and bury it, but there’s someone watching her, unwilling to let her forget.
Twenty-three year old, Troy DeLuca, is following in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps, and has been trained since childhood to take over the family architecture practice. The day Natasha is hired as an intern, his well-planned life is beginning to flip upside down. There’s something oddly familiar about the quiet, subdued girl. Painful past memories that he thought he’d buried years before, are now flooding his present.
Will Troy’s touch be enough to heal the angry and raw wounds that Natasha carries? Will she continue to shut herself off and run? Or will she find the strength to take her life back?
A story about stolen innocence and the struggles to forget, forgive, and move forward.
“Some content in this book may be upsetting for some readers. This book contains references to rape and suicide.”
(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first line.)
First lines—"The party was raging out of control. The two-story house was beyond hot and stuffy."
First off, A Healing Touch is book 3 in Melissa's wonderful Riverview Series. It totally can be read as a standalone but why would you do that? Go ahead and read the first two books so that you can enjoy the depth of the characters. It was wonderful to be immersed in this series again and reconnect with the close group of friends surrounding Natasha. It felt like old times.
Natasha is off to college and as a way to come out of her shell and meet more people, she attends a party with her roommate. Well, the unthinkable happens and Natasha's world is shattered. Her wonderful network of friends quickly surround her to help her heal.
I absolutely loved this story—although it did cover some tough topics—which sadly, is all very common among young people today. I had conflicting feelings about some of the characters throughout the book, wondering if they were good or bad influences in Natasha's world. So many emotions! And I had to sit back and process it all when I finished the book. I love when that happens!
A lot of new characters were introduced in this book and I would really love to see what the author might be able to do with some of them. More books in this series would be a wonderful thing!
Like I said, I loved A Healing Touch and I loved the other books in this series, as well. I highly recommend them all!
I received a copy of A Healing Touch from the author and this is my honest opinion.
Read my thoughts about book 1, A Healing Heart here.
Read my thoughts about book 2, A Healing Spirit here.
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Melissa A. Hanson lives in Southern California with her husband and two sons. Growing up in Southern California, inspiration for the city of “Riverview” is based on her hometown, Redlands.
Melissa's journey to writing began with a passion in reading that started in sixth grade. In high school she started writing, but writing took a back seat when she decided to pursue a career in architecture. Almost twenty years later, her first novel was written.
“A Healing Heart” was her first completed novel, and is book 1 of the Riverview Series. It is Bailey and Collin's story.
“A Healing Spirit", is book 2 of the Riverview Series. It is Mia and Dylan's story.
"A Healing Touch" book 3 of the Riverview Series will be released in Feb 2024. It is Natasha and Troy's story
Each book is a stand-alone novel.
While Melissa spends most days designing buildings, she still loves reading and creating stories. ~ Goodreads
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