True Nature

A thoroughly engaging read:
This is a joke, she thought. It's only a cruel guess. He's just trying to bait me. He doesn't know anything. How could he know? Kailen James, orphaned early and brought up by foster parents, lives happily in their Appalachian village until mysterious headaches and seizures take over her life. After years of psychiatric wards, drugs, and every other treatment imaginable, she flees to New Orleans in hope of carrying out the one suggestion a long Internet search unearths that makes any sense. Find Mona, the post urges, after telling her about a woman able to treat ailments that traditional medicine finds hopeless. In New Orleans Kailen finds a job and friends, and begins making a new life in a place that she loves. But the seizures only grow more terrifying. When she meets a stranger who says he can help her find Mona, she fears trusting him; but by now she fears her mysterious illness more. So she goes with Marc Foteneau, on a journey deep into the unknown. Kailen's "true nature" surprised me as much as it did her, despite the story's logical flow in that direction. Like Kailen, I thought then that I knew what she was all about - but we both quickly found out otherwise! The tale had a lot more twists and turns in store, for Kailen and for me. If you're a lover of paranormal romance combined with rip-roaring adventure, you'll find True Nature a thoroughly engaging read.