Johnny's Gift

Colonel Johnny Mackenzie has always been different. As a boy, he discovered he could feel the emotions of everyone around him — joy, grief, fear, love — as clearly as if they were his own. His family calls it "the luck of the Irish," a strange and powerful gift passed down through generations. On the battlefield, that gift has made him a legend, the kind of commanding officer whose instincts seem to border on the impossible, the kind who brings his soldiers home.

But gifts come with a cost. ...