Julia Cassandra

Healing Words Julia Cassandra

True art looks not with the eye, but with the heart...

From infancy, speechless beauty Annabella Blackhurst has been dubbed 'simple'. Tired of the 'kindness' of slowly spoken words, docile smiles, and a lack of any true understanding, Annabella is set upon the Ton marriage market. Even breath-taking beauty and a hefty dowry are unable to make up for a lack of witty conversation to the Ton. Cursed with her severe stutter, Annie enters her first season sure she will never find someone who can truly hear her...

Tortured artist Caleb Dawson was blessed in his youth with everything a young man could want, good friends, good looks, and a talent for oil painting that would soon surpass his famous father's. All changed in an ill-timed cannon blast at Waterloo. The acclaimed court artist, now unable to paint, hides behind his brutal disfigurement. A slow painful recovery from the physical wounds has left him bitter and angry, certain no one can ever see him again for what he once was...

Together can they find the power of Healing Words?