The Doctor's Bride
Beverly Hills, California
Chloe Kilgannon pushed her red clown nose firmly in place and practiced walking in her oversize shoes. When had she last worn them? As a teenager, she'd performed often, but that was a long time ago, and she hadn't clowned since the last time she'd been home.
Home—that was a place not easily defined. If home was where the heart is, it would be wherever there were children who needed the assurance they weren't alone. If she'd still had the job she'd done the last eight years, she could have been heading for a new home today. In India there'd been a horrific mudslide. In Australia, a tornado had touched down. In the aftermath of devastation, there were always newly homeless children separated from their families. Organizing their care and assuring them they were still loved had been her job, a job she'd thought she'd always have. "Hey, Chloe, are you about ready!"
Nurse Sandy Beechum popped into the hospital's first-floor restroom where Chloe had made her metamorphosis. The two had known each other since Chloe's teenage clowning days.
"Who do you think you are, and what happened to my friend Chloe Kilgannon?" Sandy said, looking her u ... read full excerpt from: The Doctor's Bride ebook
