Million Dollar Baby

the long version

After a dozen years working in the emergency room, Dr. Dallas O'Rourke thought he'd seen it all, thought he'd hardened his heart. Then one night Chandra Hill entered on the heels of paramedics rushing an abandoned newborn to the hospital. Her eyes flashed with worry and passion, but it was her evasive manner that set Dallas on edge .... Chandra's career as a pediatrician had ended with sorrow. She thought she'd put her painful past to rest, but now the abandoned baby's cries had reawakened it, and her shattered soul was responding. Suddenly, more than anything, Chandra wanted this baby to live and to be hers. If only this doctor--this tough, seasoned veteran of life and death--didn't also want the baby . . . and Chandra, too....