Love Is Blind — Marcia Miller

The wound on Cass' face would heal, but what about the wound in her heart? Would it deny her true happiness forever...?

Scarred...

A newcomer to San Francisco, Cass Everett already loved everything about the city and, she suspected, was more than a little in love with one of the staff at Talmadge Laboratory where she worked -- red-haired Dr. Bill Atkinson whose hobbies were fine restaurants and fast cars. So Cass was understandably disappointed when her Aunt Willa, one of San Francisco's most prominent citizens, showed an obvious dislike for Bill. But when pressed for an explanation, Willa Carson was strangely evasive. Then, while he was driving Cass home from a date one night, Bill's car over-turned. He wasn't injured, but Cass suffered a face cut, a cut that would require plastic surgery. Though Aunt Willa managed to get taciturn young Dr. Tod Jeffers, one of the best surgeons on the West Coast, to agree to perform the operation, still Cass couldn't help worrying about permanent disfigurement. And wondering what it might do to Bill's feeling for her...

Moment of Fear...
Bill looked at her hesitantly, but suddenly his mouth firmed. "Cass, may I check your wound? I--I've been a coward about asking..."
Words of refusal came to Cass's lips, but at the look on Bill's face, she stilled them. "Of course," she said quickly...
Slowly, he put a hand to her face. There was a sharp sting as the tape came away. Cass dropped her eyes, shutting out Bill's face...
It was with a kind of relief that she heard him say, "Why--why that's not nearly as bad as I...I mean...plastic surgery will correct...don't you agree?"
Cass laughed "I don't know! I haven't looked at it and don't want to..."



In her newly found position as medical secretary in San Francisco's Talmadge Laboratory, lovely Cass Everett felt that she was on her way to achieving a happy life. The real basis for this feeling was Dr. Bill Atkinson, handsome and sauve, was brightened Cass's weekends with trips to fine restaurants and to auto races. Cass even felt confidant enough of their relationship to introduce Bill to her Aunt Willa, and was much distressed by her aunt's unexplained disapproval of the young man.

Cass's dilemma was heightened when, one rain-slicked night, she and Bill had an auto accident that necessitated plastic surgery for her. Even though the accident was unavoidable, Bill's sense of guilt could not be diminished: he had come away unharmed. And the aloofness of Cass's plastic surgeon, renowned Dr. Tod Jeffers, only added to her bewilderment and growing insecurity.

How Cass copes with her problem and resolves her deepest feelings for Bill make Love is Blind a steadily engrossing novel that cleverly builds to its dramatic climax.


Hero: Dr./Doctor Tod Jeffers
Heroine: Cass Everett