Mark Winik

The Dog Healers Mark Winik

The Dog Healers is truly inspiring and touches the reader on many levels. It's a dramatic novel that grabs you from the start. Communicating a stunning spiritual message that's wrapped into an adventure story, with a colorful cast of both two- and four-legged characters. This harrowing tale of love, loyalty, and enduring bonds between animals and people brings readers to a bustling South American metropolis, fertile valleys, family vineyards and majestic mountains. We move through these setting seamlessly following first Isabella, then her love Carlos, and often we discover the dogs they connect with are magical. As the skillfully healers trained in the art of Kum Nye, a practice of Tibetan dog healing, come together to create an extraordinary center to protect the canines they cherish. The journey--as well as the project--is fraught with intrigue, bad actors, danger and strife, but through it all Isabella pushes the boundaries of her bond with people and animals to see her dream come to fruition to save and connect with as many animals as she can. Nothing short of a catastrophic accident will deter her destiny in life. In the end, we learn the dogs are the true healers that lift our spirits and touch us in ways that modern medicine can't.