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    Healing Touch
    Healing Touch
    Healing Touch
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    Healing Touch

    By Gabriella Mahoney

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGabriella Mahoney
    Release dateSep 16, 2013
    ISBN9781301673124
    Healing Touch
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    Gabriella Mahoney

    Gabriella Mahoney is a California girl that has been writing since grade school. As an incurable bookworm, she remembers when her best friend first introduced her to Georgette Heyer and the world of Regency romance like it was yesterday. Gabriella likes to write in a variety of genres but she is especially fond of short form fiction and exploring the new romantic possibilities it creates.

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      Healing Touch - Gabriella Mahoney

      Healing Touch

      By Gabriella Mahoney

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      Published by Gabriella Mahoney at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Gabriella Mahoney

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      Chapter 1

      Dr. John Wafford represented everything Albert Halton despised about county doctors. The man was a pompous windbag that had grown fat and wealthy off the mysteriously vague complaints of rich widows. His medical techniques belonged in the Dark Ages and yet Albert had been deemed fortunate to find such a mentor, especially considering he was only nine and twenty with no field experience.

      Following in the footsteps of his father, Albert had earned his own doctorate two months ago and through a few family connections had managed to secure an apprenticeship with the highly respected Dr. Wafford who resided in Bobbin, Norfolk. His father had beamed over the prospect. Don’t do hospital work, he had advised Albert. County medicine, that’s where the money is.

      Albert was inclined to agree with his father but for entirely different reasons. He was savvy enough to recognize the value of money. The shabby state of his family’s London townhome had not escaped his notice while growing up. It was thanks to his mother’s economizing that allowed them to not starve. It was his father’s greatest wish that he became wealthy enough to support his parents in their old age.

      But this was not the true reason why Albert had followed his father’s advice. Unlike his father, he enjoyed the challenge of medicine. In his opinion there was no greater euphoria than bringing a patient that was hovering on the brink of death back to the living. He was ambitious in his own way. He cared about his legacy more than money. He would consider it a crowning achievement to invent a revolutionary treatment that would be documented in the medical books for generations of doctors to come.

      Which was why he had decided to go the county doctor route. He did not come from a family with powerful political connections so it would be next to impossible to distinguish himself in a city hospital. He would end like his father, entirely dependent on the generosity of benefactors. The fate of the patient always came second to the opinion of the person whose pocketbook funded the treatment.

      Albert wanted none of that. He wanted to be able to make his own decisions that were based on the good of the patient. Which is why he had to endure the teachings of the portly gentleman walking beside him for the time being. Dr. Wafford had known his father in medical school and had said in passing correspondence that he was looking to retire in the next few years. County positions didn’t open up often so Albert’s father had jumped at the chance to introduce his son.

      Your father was absolutely right to send you, my boy, Dr. Wafford puffed; the short, uphill walk to their first patient’s home was taking its toll. "I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told him to make the move out into the country. But he never would. He kept saying he had a good position and the next patron or patroness would be much better. When pigs fly, I told him. But he least he had more sense when it came to his son."

      Yes, sir. Albert had only just moved into a spare bedroom in Dr. Wafford’s spacious home yesterday but he had already learned that Wafford’s conversation didn’t require much of a reply.

      You’re here to learn, my boy, he had said with an air of superiority. "I’ve made a very comfortable living for myself here so you’d be wise to keep your opinions to yourself until I say otherwise."

      Albert had no issue with the order. Being an upstart and a rebel was all well and good but it rarely furthered one’s career. If he was patient and bided his time, people would eventually be asking for his opinion. He would make a name for himself and he would be a success.

      Wafford cut in on his ambitious line of thoughts. "This morning’s first appointment is a widow in her late forties. Since her husband’s death ten years ago she has suffered from a severe case of female hysteria for

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