Winged Victory for Nurse Kerry

By Patricia Libby

“Don’t lean too close with that sensational figure of yours, or he’s liable to have a relapse.” 

Nurse Kerry Kincaid had been a young, carefree Air Force flight nurse, in love with her job and pilot Johnny Bowman—until a life- and bone-shattering plane crash had taken his life, and her reason for living with it. Now, her body knitted whole if her heart is anything but, she has found refuge in the safe, undemanding arms of Dr. Garth Hamilton, whose wealth and affection demand little except that she be a decorative ornament on his arm. But brash Dr. Brett Taylor, an aggressive and talented surgeon who has founded a flying medical clinic that reaches into impoverished corners of Mexico, knows that Kerry is capable of more than a tame love, and his kisses provoke a stirring passion—and stark terror—in Kerry’s core. “Stay in your ivory tower, princess. Safe and untouched and half alive,” Brett sneered when she rebuffed him for the last time. As he turned and strode away, tears welled in Kerry’s eyes—but were they tears of regret?