Heart Of The Hero - Softcover

Rickey R. Mallory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893896331 ISBN 13: 9781893896338

Publisher: Imajinn Books, 2003

Synopsis

A horrible accident, a bitter secret, a man in search of the truth, and the woman who can either save or destroy him.

About this title

About the Author

Rickey R. Mallory took early retirement from her position as Assistant Chief of Pharmacy at the VA Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, to pursue her other loves, writing and art. She is multipublished in short and novel length romance and science fiction and fantasy.

Her short stories and novels have been nominated for and won numerous awards, and have garnered praise from such outstanding writers as Tom Easton, Judith Ivory, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Charles Wilson.

She credits her love for writing to her mother, a librarian, who taught her reverence for the printed word and her father, steeped in oral history. She strives to be as good a storyteller as her father and grandfather.

From the Inside Flap

They claimed he was a hero, but he didn't even know who he was....

Danny spread his fingers and looked at the tiny scars crisscrossing his palms. Daniel T. White, hero, Homeland Security Force Patroller who'd saved hundreds of lives on the space station. It didn't work. The word hero didn't go with the name, if everything he'd learned since the accident was true. Nor did the name go with the man. He pulled on his dress gloves and prepared for yet another public display.

A band of pain tightened around his temples. Now he was returning to the waiting arms of a family he didn't remember. It was pathetic how badly he wanted to remember them, and how afraid he was that they wouldn't remember him.

Fumbling in his breast pocket, he pulled out a miniature holovid pic. An eager, open face smiled at him, green eyes looking trustingly into his. Surely Kee would remember him. They had been married. He pressed a small button on the back of the metal box.

"I love you." That was all she said in her laughing, melodic voice. He turned it back over, craving another look at the open eager smile. Her face was filled with love and laughter, and maybe just a trace of sadness. Danny held the picture a bit closer. What gave him the idea she was sad? The eyes? They were green and bright and filled with something he'd like to think was love.

A voice echoed in his head from Daniel White's micro-disk logs. Conniving bitch. He couldn't reconcile the cold fury in those words with the lovely face captured in the snapshot. The face looked like a face he could love. Kee looked like someone he could trust.

If only he could remember. If only he could feel a connection with the angry voice on the micro-disk, or dredge up the resentment Daniel White obviously harbored for his wife. But there was nothing inside him except the hollow dread. The dread and one other thing, the thing that made him able to get through all this.

Hope.

Hope that when Kee looked at him her face would light up like the face in the photograph and she would open her arms and welcome him home. Hope that when he stood in front of his family, something would click in his battered brain and he would know he was Daniel White.

Because right now he wasn't so sure.

Edition details

• Publisher: Imajinn Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893896331
• ISBN 13: 9781893896338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240