It can be read, admittedly, as a slightly supernatural, occasionally scary, and fairly sexy look at modern relationships and the evils that may lurk inside ourselves as well as without. But there are elements that take you deeper as there are some depths here to explore. They all live in a world so deftly woven by Devereaux that one never pauses to question anything that the plot brings. It's a masterful display of style, craft, and imagination. Ultimately one is left with an examination of the power of emotions and a confrontation with darkness.
Good fiction does that and Walking Wounded is just that.
If I had edited Shards for author Piccirilli, I would have told him to rewrite the first three chapters and make them six. The story moves so quickly the reader is swept along at a dizzying pace. The thing is. . Shards is no roller coaster. It's a hijacked bullet train speeding through the dark.