title: Saving Jessica
author:  Lurlene McDaniel 
description: Jessica McMillian and Jeremy Travino are a perfect couple.&#160;&#160; But now Jessica has been diagnosed as having kidney failure.&#160;&#160; She is on dialysis three days a week and is so depressed that she's not sure she wants to live.&#160;&#160;Her one hope for a normal life is a kidney transplant, but she's an only child and her parents aren't suitable donors.&#160;&#160; Jeremy is determined to donate one of her kidneys to her, but his parents are terrified of losing their only child.&#160;&#160;Will Jeremy find the strength to go against his parent's wishes and do what he must to save Jessica?
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  Rather than doing the smart thing  
  and backing away from him, she took  
  a step forward.
  
  “Roxie,” Luke said, his voice low in warning. “Be sure before you start
  something you’ll regret later.”
  
  “I’m not starting anything,” she said, and knew it was the truth. “I’m
  finishing it. Call it closure, call it once more for old time’s sake…call it
  whatever you want. I’m going to call it the goodbye kiss I never got.”
  
  Working methodically when her hands wanted to shake and her pulse wanted to
  race, not even entirely sure what had gotten into her, Roxanne slipped off her
  gloves. Then she got him by one lab coat lapel in each hand and used that
  purchase to rise up onto her toes as his eyes went dark and her own blood
  heated.
  
  He moved as she did, and they met halfway.
  
  And kissed goodbye.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  JESSICA ANDERSEN
  
  WITH THE M.D.…AT THE ALTAR?
  
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  TORONTO • NEW YORK • LONDON  
  AMSTERDAM • PARIS • SYDNEY • HAMBURG  
  STOCKHOLM • ATHENS • TOKYO • MILAN • MADRID