Borrowed Breath: When Healing Becomes Someone Else's Pain
Paperback
Series: The Rogue Protocols
HorrorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: David York: The Psychic Multiverse
Published: Jan 10 2026
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Some healers take pain away.
Others decide where it belongs.
In The Borrowed Breath, a gripping psychic thriller, a secretive healer rises to prominence by offering impossible cures-illness erased, suffering lifted, lives restored. Desperate people line up. Gratitude spreads. Donations flow. And no one asks the most dangerous question:
Where does the pain go?
Deep beneath Houston, an elite team of gifted psychics and advanced tacticians known only as The Circle detects an anomaly that should not exist-a biological and psychic imbalance spreading outward like a shadow. What begins as a quiet disturbance soon reveals a chilling truth: healing itself has been weaponized.
As the Circle investigates, they uncover a charismatic cult leader whose miracles are powered by a forbidden ability-one that transfers sickness, injury, and suffering from the healed to chosen targets. Enemies. Rivals. Strangers deemed expendable. The process is clean. The results are devastating. And the moral justification is always the same: someone has to pay.
Blending paranormal suspense, dark supernatural fiction, and high-stakes psychic investigation, The Borrowed Breath explores the terrifying cost of miracles without accountability. As belief turns into obedience and gratitude into complicity, the Circle must expose a truth no one wants to face-that relief can be stolen, pain can be sold, and healing can become a tool of control.
With civilians caught between faith and fear, the team races to dismantle a system designed to hide its victims in plain sight. Cutting-edge technology collides with psychic abilities, cult psychology clashes with ethics, and the Circle is forced to confront a question with no easy answer:
If suffering can be transferred...
who gets to decide who deserves it?
The Borrowed Breath is a tense, cinematic supernatural thriller novel that delivers relentless suspense, a morally complex antagonist, and a powerful reminder that some prices are too high-no matter how badly we want to be healed.
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