Have you ever had anyone tell you they’d die just to kiss you? 

 

Jane doesn’t usually have that problem. She’s a Mercy omega, born with the power to heal others by kissing them. Her lips are only meant to serve, not for pleasure. She’s been happy to serve for five years now and nothing has gone awry until a healing goes sideways, unwittingly getting her into more trouble than she thinks with the military’s senior officers. They tell her she’s to serve as a healer at the front, which is as good as a death sentence, but she ends up being covertly being stowed in Bleak House, where the military homes the children of the nation’s traitors. 

 

The alphas of Bleak House didn’t know what was inside the box they were ordered to store inside their “home”, but they certainly didn’t think it was an omega girl and they aren’t going to be part of her getting hurt. Along with their more legitimate alpha friend, Law, they concoct a plan to hide Jane among the students of the academy as a male beta student until they can sneak her off campus and to safety. After all, there’s no way they can keep her, right? And there’s no way she can stay, correct? 

 

I have yet to read a Roxy Collins omegaverse romance I didn’t like, and while A Kiss to Heal is switching gears for her a bit, this was an absolutely fabulous story and just what I was in the mood for right now as fall is starting and academy vibes are in the air. 

 

Roxy usually leans more into fast-burn spice and romance, with medium-angst and rich packs (this is what I mean by “switching gears”). A Kiss to Heal is faster on the romance than the spice (there is no intercourse in this book but a decent amount of foreplay, plus some dirty talk, fantasizing, borderline-kinky situations, and possible foreshadowing that really has no right to be as hot as it ends up being), high-angst (to say this is full of angst is not an exaggeration), and is set in a war-torn country that’s essentially under military rule. This is larger in scope than anything Collins has written before and with higher stakes and I’m loving it. 

 

This first book in the series has no heats/knots/bites, but they will be coming in later books. I can easily see the beginnings of polyamorous connections between members of the original five male members of the pack happening in further books of the series, and I think (I’m not positive) that Jane isn’t quite done building her pack yet. 

 

There’s a whole lot of story here, and I’m settling in for the long haul. Let’s go. 

 

I was provided a copy of this title by the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you. 

 

File Under: 5 Star Review/Academy Setting/Book Series/Dark Romance/Dystopian/Military Romance/Omegaverse/Paranormal Romance/Romance Series/Slow Burn/Spice Level 1/Why Choose Romance