01762cam a2200349 i 4500 611058052 TxAuBib 20221201120000.0 221021s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022023110 9780593359105 0593359100 (OCoLC)1348398549 TxAuBib rda Perry, Anne, author. A Christmas Deliverance / Anne Perry. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2022] 204 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Scuff has come a long way from his time as a penniless orphan scraping together a living on the banks of the Thames. Now he's studying medicine at a free clinic run by Dr. Crowe. Lately Crowe has grown distracted after witnessing an altercation between a former patient of his named Ellie--a woman he not only treated but grew to love--and her controlling fiancé. It seems someone is forcing Ellie to marry the man, and as Crowe's emotions come flooding back, he sets out to uncover the troubling connection between Ellie, her father, and her betrothed. With Crowe engrossed in his investigation just weeks before the holidays, Scuff is left to fend for himself, performing surgery after surgery on London's poor and vulnerable."-- Book jacket. 20221201. Physicians Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Poverty Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Christmas fiction. Historical fiction.