num_pages: 354
description: Elena Baxter can work miracles with her hands. She can coax bones to knit, flesh to heal. She can mend the mind. She has been doing such work for almost all of her twenty-eight years. That is why she will be taken.The media called it a rampage of terror, the recent murders. But fighting crime is why Artur Loginov joined Dirk &amp; Steele. The international detective agency specializes in the impossible, and their creed is simple: Help those in need, no matter how difficult, and no matter what, keep the secret safe. For the agency helps its employees, too: people like Artur- the gifted, the tormented. Dirk &amp; Steele gave the Russian emigre purpose, protection, community... and refuge from his past, for who can trust a man who can start a fire with his mind, or shape-shift, or read others' thoughts as easily as drawing breath? For his similar talent, Artur will be taken.Into the darkness Elena and Artur will be drawn, into the clutches of evil. Cornered, isolated, caged, they will fight for their very souls. But salvation awaits. It exists in a form least expected: a dream of a face, a brush of a mind, the hint of a kiss, and finally, at long last a shadow touch.
language: English
title: Shadow Touch
titlecomplete: Shadow Touch (Dirk & Steele,  #2)
characters: Elena Baxter, Artur Loginov, Roland Steele, Rictor, Amiri
genres: Paranormal Romance, Magic, Shapeshifters, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Suspense, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Paranormal
ratings_count: 2681
places: Russia
series: Dirk & Steele
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: RITA Award by Romance Writers of America
category: Paranormal Romance
publisher: Love Spell