Heartbeats

Who was she -- Florence Nightingale on a shiny black motorcycle? An angel of mercy in a crash helmet? No, Holly Hamilton was simply the nurse-practitioner from the county home health care system en route to an urgent call.

Holly had taken to Alabama's dusty back roads to start anew, free of emotional involvements. Yet her new calling had led her straight into Nick 'The Cyclone' Bennett's arms. Between the world heavyweight boxing champion and his spry ninety-two-year-old grandmother, she hardly stood a chance.

"I love you" Nick whispered as he drew her ever closer. But passionate illusions he created in the present were overshadowed by bitter disillusions of the past. Had she come to monitor Mrs. Bennett's runaway blood pressure or to discover that she still couldn't trust her own dangerously wayward heart?