The Talking Cure, Book Two: Transference

The Talking Cure, Book Two:

Transference

A novel by Barb Lien-Cooper & Park Cooper

Your psychiatric client falling in love with you is supposed to be a good sign, a sign of progress!

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The Talking Cure, Book Two: Transference

“Cynthia and Zach have such an addictive dynamic that every conversation between them crackles with warmth, humor, and unresolved longing.”

– Michael Stinson, author of BITEMARK

The story

Dr. Cynthia Mann’s favorite patient, absurdly attractive thirty-something supernatural investigator Zach Cutter, has been–

–Wait. She’s not really supposed to have favorite patients.

But come on. Look at him.

And he feels the same about her. Why couldn’t she have just met him on a date?

Cynthia has a lot of complicated feelings about Zach these days– it’s not enough that he’s handsome and charmingly flirtatious, no– transference is a perfectly well-known phenomenon in therapy where the patient develops what they think are feelings for their therapist! It’s supposed to be a good sign, that they’re opening up!

It’s adding real magic into the mix that makes things worse. Zach’s traumatic memories related to his old boss, the sorcerer Aubrey Lowman– what exactly happened to that guy, anyway? What exactly caused Zach’s memory loss? Why is he so scared of finding out the answers?

Because little by little, the answers keep leading Cynthia and Zach closer to the biggest secrets… as well as closer to each other...

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Critical praise

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Song to the Siren is . . . a rock-n’-roll ghost story that delivers a ballad of haunting moments in a love story that crosses time.”

—Charles Allen, Arcanus Press

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“As with all of [the authors’] characters, the reader really cares about Zach and Cynthia . . . I enjoyed every page of this book, and it left me hungry for more…”

—Carol Seufert, Educator and Reviewer

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“A smooth interweaving of melding of magic and psychiatric care…I’ve never seen anyone doing a series like this, and I look forward to the next one!”

—Amazon reviewer Chris Mennell

Psychology with a supernatural bent makes for an interesting story, and The Talking Cure delivers. This sequel picks up where the last book left off, and it does not disappoint.

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Barb Lien-Cooper and Park Cooper. They each have leather-looking jackets and dark pants on. Barb has a long blue scarf, and Park has a dark sort of goatee thing.
Barb Lien-Cooper and Park Cooper.

About the authorS

Barb Lien-Cooper & Park Cooper

Barb and Park are a married-couple team of writers who create under the name of Wicker Man Studios. Their tagline is Wicker Man Studios: Relationship Dramas in Spooky Worlds.

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