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His Magic Touch

"You know I'm not a miracle worker," Jesse said.

"Oh, I think you are," Nell said, sighing. "Could you scratch my right shoulder

blade?" He did, and she sighed again. "A little lower. Oh, lovely."

He made great progress on the area around her neck, marveling at the lightness of

her bones and the softness of her back. A hospital steward had remarked to him that

Elinore Mason had such a fragile air about her. You're so right, Jesse thought, as he

expertly manipulated her shoulders through her nightgown. He knew the resiliency of

the human body as well as any surgeon, but he still felt reluctant to press too hard.

Even if he were permitted to grow old and cranky with her, he would always wonder

how she preserved that gentleness. What is it about women? he asked himself. Or at

least, what is it about this woman?

The

Wedding Journey

Carla Kelly

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One must always get over heavy ground as lightly as possible."

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Prologue

Captain Jesse Cameron Randall, assistant surgeon of Marching

Hospital Number Eight, was no lover of paperwork, but he had

no trouble declining an invitation from his brother officers to

drink up the dead ration that always signaled the beginning of a

retreat. Even using the argument that the bottles would be an

encumbrance, it struck him as unseemly to polish off the liquor

and wine belonging to officers who had died during the

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