Reseña del libro "The Healing Hand (en Inglés)"
Tania, The Lovely Daughter Of The Late Lord Amesly, Leaves Herschool In Paris And Is Travelling To Boulogne When Her Train Crashes. Amongst The Fear And Confusion She Is Helped And Befriended By Acharming Young Englishman ? Captain Rupert More ? And With Him Shereaches The Ferry Where She Unexpectedly Meets Two Friends Of Her Late Parents, Charles And Selina Bracebridge.
Captivated By Tania, Andawed By Her Bravery In The Face Of Adversity, Rupert Is Convinced That She Is Uniquely Special. Tania, Innocent In The Ways Of Love Havingspent So Long In Her Convent School, Is Similarly Smitten By Thedashing Young Captain. It Seems That Cupid?S Bow Has Struck In Themost Unusual Of Circumstances, But As The Young Couple Get To Knoweach Other Their Happiness Is Shattered By The Threat Of War In Thecrimea.
Promising That She Will Wait For Him, Rupert Prepareshimself For The Battlefield. Back In London Tania?S Hostile Stepmother Makes It Clear That Her Stepdaughter Is No Longer Welcome In Her Ownhome. Eager To Discharge Her Duties As Legal Guardian, The Second Lady Amesly Decides The Easiest Way Is To Marry Her Pretty Stepdaughteroff As Quickly As Possible. So When Lord Watford, An Eligible Widowerwith A Shady Past, Asks For Tania?S Hand In Marriage, Her Stepmotheris Determined That The Answer Will Be ?Yes?.
Terrified At The Ideaof Having To Marry Someone She Does Not Love, And Wishing That Rupertwere Still Close By, Tania Runs Away To The Bracebridges And Begs Them To Help. The Bracebridges Are Close Friends Of Florence Nightingale, Who Is Determined To Recruit Nurses To Look After The Troops Woundedin The War. Joining Florence And Training As Fast As She Can, Taniasecretly Leaves England, Following Rupert To The Frontline.
As Warbreaks Out And The Casualty Figures Rise, Tania Works Tirelessly Inthe British Military Hospital In Scutari. With Every Newly Injuredsoldier Arriving Needing Care And Comfort, Tania Eagerly Scans Theirfaces Hoping To See Her Lost Love, And Begs For News Ofrupert.
Will They Find Each Other Again? And If They Do Can Theirlove Survive The Horrors Of War? Or Will Lady Amersly Discover Herwhereabouts And Demand That She Return Home To Marry A Man She Neither Loves Nor Respects? Tania Will Need All Of Her Courage And Belief Inthe Powers Of True Love For The Challenges Ahead
