Sara Martinez is a nurse coping with her very ill mother, she prefers regular medicine but it can't do anything more for her mother's cancer so she agrees to go with her mother to a Santera healer, Ricardo Fernandez. What she doesn't know is that he isn't what she thinks but he uses santera as a cloak for his real healing ability.

There's also a monster stalking the city, killing strays, it wants help from Ricardo, and is willing to do anything for that help. Ricardo will need help from his friends but how will Sara react to the world he lives in, a world that isn't quite as logical as the world she lives in but exists and has power.

I liked the way he used the cloak of religion to hide the truth to make it more palatable, and the fact that he had a certain amount of discomfort about it as well. I enjoyed the story and the characters as well, finding them quite believable. ( )

http://community.eharlequin.com/.4a841aa6 ( )