Tarianna is a silver healer that uses her body to heal the illness of others. She has been commissioned by a family to help a young man that is dying of a disease. After she works with Greggor, she takes to town to help any others that need her.

But there is a sacrifice to this gift. The deeper she uses her power to heal, the deeper the well in her soul becomes. Hunger for food is easily appeased. But there is another hunger that takes command of her. She uses sex to push back the cold and the stark iciness that tries to consume her. The closeness of another body, the sharing of energy, fills her so that she can heal again the next day.

Tarianna doesn’t like that she has to have many lovers when in her heart and soul, she’s committed to her main patient. But after a successful session to help his condition, Greggor pushes her away. Thinking he’s ashamed of her for what she has to do to survive, it brings out something inside her she never knew existed. Deciding her heart can’t take Greggor’s rejection Tarianna asks to be released from the rest of her contract and a new healer brought in.

The ending to this is bittersweet, but it is a great read. The love and passion is without a doubt deeply expressed. You grow to feel Tarianna’s burden, but when Greggor finally gets his head back north, he more than makes up for being a jackass.