Lifespark

Anna Simons never wanted to be a healer like her mother and tried to hide her gift. Then her mother is dying and she reaches out to touch her, only to find she is too late and her mother’s lifespark flickers and dies. The shame of her failure plagues her for years as she moves forward in her life.
Now, twenty years later, she is married to her soulmate, Ethan. They have a good life but he knows nothing of her past or her gift. Then a desperate father, who grew up in Anna’s hometown, asks her to save the life of his dying child. Anna wants to say no but the power in her hands won’t allow her to do so. With this decision, she opens the door on a part of herself that she never wanted to acknowledge.
She begins the process of merging her current life with her reclaimed ability into one cohesive unit and all seems to be going well. Then one night she hears the words that will change her life forever, “Heal this bitch.” Shots are fired, and the man she loves is dying in her arms. She reaches out with the power in her hands, only to once again fail.
Furthermore, she is gravely wounded and there is no one there who can reach out and touch her to make the pain go away. She begins the process of rebuilding her life and reconciling that her power has failed to save the two most important people in her life. She must again find her physical and mental strength as well as regaining her confidence in her supernatural abilities.
But as she is rebounding, her shooter is still at large and plays a malicious game of cat and mouse that continues to put Anna’s life in danger. Lifespark is a story of survival in the most dire of circumstances. Anna’s survival becomes dependent on her finding a strength and dependence on the power within herself and learning to value not just one gift, but all of the gifts that her life has presented to her.