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You have to love how Kay Hooper integrates the paranormal into her novels. Her characters are perfectly normal people with faults and foibles just like the rest of us, but with an added “something”.

In this novel, we are introduced to Maggie Barnes an empath whose strength increases with each victim she helps get over being touched by an evil that has come down through time to re-enact it’s killing spree.

At first it leaves them alive, but blind. Now it has discovered that leaving them alive leaves it vulnerable to the psychic forces aligning against it and so it begins killing it’s victims after perpetrating unspeakable acts against them.  Unexpected help comes from one of the victims of his first killing spree as well as one of the victims from this spree who miraculously gets her sight back by virtue of transplanted eyes from an accident victim. As Hollis is recovering from the surgery, she begins communicating with Annie, the dead sister of the killer.

This intricately woven tale will keep you intrigued throughout.

Touching Evil by Kay Hooper
Bantam Books 2001
ISBN 0-553-58344-1