Touch (Revised)
by Charlotte Watson Sherman

Rayna Sargent is a thirty-five-year-old artist who supports herself by working as a telephone crisis-line social worker for a local clinic. She finds it necessary, and even easy, to shut out the desperate voices on the other end of the line once she leaves work at night to return to her true love- painting. Then she meets Theodore, a handsome, open-hearted men who seems to want to break through Rayna’s protective outer shell. And it looks as if this time Rayna might actually be ready to take the leap. But that’s before everything falls apart. Before she gets the diagnosis that she is HIV positive.