She Wakes the Night by Darcy Carson

            Trell Langois escapes a thousand-year-old curse. Being trapped as a tree wasn’t on her bucket list, but now she can continue as a healer. Traveling with her dragon, Torkel, she seeks out new cures to help others and meets Gren, an unfortunate soul who suffers from a dreadful disease.

          Gren Oyg Har is a prince on a mission. In order to rule his father’s kingdom, he must first find a healer. Not just any healer, mind you, but one with a dragon. Yet, it is Trell who finds and recues Gren, but wants nothing to do with him. If not for Torkel, she would leave him behind.

          Separate goals soon become entangled, and both Trell and Gren are on their way to falling in love until secrets better kept hidden become known—and threaten to destroy all they hold dear.

 Our Review: Rarely have we found a novel filled with such lyrical descriptions of every aspect of a story:  the setting, the characters, the emotions. Author Carson has a real talent, not only for her imagination, but also for her clear in-depth research into exotic diseases and ethnic groups. Her ability in putting that information into a cohesive, coherent story is exceptional.

 On a scale of 1-5, She Wakes the Night deserves a 6.

 Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews