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Johnny's Gift
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceChristian Fiction
Publisher: Finding Life's Magic
Published: Jun 26 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Colonel Johnny Mackenzie has a gift - and a curse. Ever since he was a boy, he has been able to feel the emotions of everyone around him, a gift his family calls the luck of the Irish. On the battlefield, that gift made him a legend - the kind of commanding officer whose instincts border on the impossible, the kind who brings his soldiers home.
But gifts come with a cost. Every hospital hallway, every grieving family, every wounded soldier's silent pain - Johnny feels it all, and he has spent his life learning to carry that weight quietly, alone.
Then, during a visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Johnny meets Nurse Marta Simmons - and everything changes. The moment their paths cross, he feels something he has never experienced before. A connection so powerful, so undeniable, that it stops him in his tracks. He can read anyone's heart but his own, yet somehow, hers is the one he cannot stop thinking about.
There is just one problem. Marta's heart still belongs to someone else - a man she has loved for years, a man whose own pain has driven him further away with each passing day. Marta is holding on to a love that is slipping through her fingers, even as she begins to feel something stir whenever Johnny is near.
As Johnny and Marta's paths cross again and again - through grief, loss, and the long quiet work of healing - Johnny is forced to confront the one thing his gift has never been able to fix: his own heart. He has spent his entire life sensing what others need, giving comfort, offering strength, standing guard over everyone but himself.
Now, for the first time, Johnny must decide whether the gift that has always set him apart might also be the very thing that finally lets him belong - to someone, and to a love he never allowed himself to hope for.
A story of faith, healing, and the courage it takes to let yourself be loved, Johnny's Gift is a tender reminder that sometimes the greatest gift is not the one we are given - it is the one we finally let ourselves receive.
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