title: Touched: A Novel
author:  Carolyn Haines 
description: The Deep South never gets any deeper than 1920s Jexville, Mississippi, of Carolyn Haines' novel <i>Touched</i>. Dirt poor Mattie is the arranged bride of the town's barber Elikah, who is prone to deliver vicious beatings to his young wife. When a little girl is struck by lightning at a party and not only survives, but seems to have attained the ability to predict the future, Jexville is turned on its ear. The townspeople believe that the child is probably in league with the devil and that she and her mother are a danger. Mattie befriends the pair, earning punishment at the hands of her husband before winning freedom for herself and her newfound friends.
zlib_text: TOUCH ME
  A FORBIDDEN ROMANCE
  
  JENIKA SNOW
  
  CONTENTS
  Synopsis
  Prologue
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Epilogue
  About the Author
  
  TOUCH ME
  By Jenika Snow
  www.JenikaSnow.com
  Jenika_Snow@Yahoo.com
  Copyright © November 2020 by Jenika Snow
  First E-book Publication: 2014
  Photo provided by: Adobe Stock
  Cover Designer: Cormar Covers
  Proof Editor: Editing 4 Indies
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  This literary work is fiction. Any name, places, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or establishments is solely coincidental. Please res