Hands-On Therapy

In this world a healer can be born to nine fated marriages, and the touch that treats a body also decides who is bound to whom. Alexis leaves the mountain and the ascetic life he was living to go find the women he is fated to. He carries a massage technique called the Eighteen Touches of Destiny. He uses it on Clémence Belcourt, the head of a company who does not warm to people, and she notices him. He cures a long-standing illness in her younger sister. He gets Maëlle out from under a customer who will not leave her alone at work, and he helps Nadine into a promotion and a raise. Office tension, unspoken wants, and a queue of women who each expect him to keep looking after them.