[Angels in the Sand 01] • Angel of Mercy

Nurse Chelsea Bannister.

Once I lived in a world of cotillions, dances, and balls. Now I'm thousands of miles from home, a nurse in an Army surgical unit. I see death and destruction every day, and it breaks my heart.

Why would I open my broken heart to the attentions of a broken man? Is it true affection that I feel or just my instinct to heal? And how can I heal a man, whose wounds I cannot see?

Specialist First Class Gerald Giacomo.

I have a secret that will haunt me forever. I'm a bad man not worth living, much less being loved. I need to be alone.

Why does her smile come to me in my dreams? What is it about her laugh that sounds a melody within me? Are my feelings real? Are hers? But what if she finds out...that I am not the good soldier she thought I was supposed to be?