title: Healing Touch
author: Mahoney, Gabriella
description: Albert Halton is young, ambitious doctor with a promising career ahead of him.  A man in his position cannot afford distractions and when he marries it will be to a demure woman that has no problem living in the shadow of her husband's work.
  Which is why his future wife will certainly be nothing like Tessa Alcott.  The outspoken spinster is far too blunt and has an unfashionable taste for her own independence.  Such a woman couldn't possibly be good for him... could she?
  This novelette is approximately 16,000 words.