Just as Paula had passed her nursing and midwifery finals, her fiance backed out of their engagement, and to try to recover from the blow she wanted to get away from everything.

Accompanied by her loyal friend Rosalind, she joined the Tasmanian Tourist Nursing Service. Her efforts were rewarded, for, in that smiling apple-blossom island, she found a new life, and a greater happiness than she had ever known.

The intimate story of three nurses who loved the wrong men.

“Is it wrong to marry for money?” asked Nurse Miller.

“Is it wrong to resent your mother because she is a glamorous movie star?” asked Nurse Gray.

“Is it wrong to love the boy next door who thinks of you as a kid sister?” asked Nurse Leighton.

“Nurses Dormitory” is an unusually warm story of the lives of three young nurses and the men they fall in love with. Told against the backdrop of the wards, corridors and operating rooms of a big city hospital, there is an authentic insight into the scene behind the scenes and every character is as real as a favorite friend.

The book that does for the noblest profession what “Coffee, Tea Or Me” did for the airline stewardesses…

These are THE NURSES: six girls, young, beautiful, meeting life head-on…

• Karen – oldest of the group, burned by passion at an early age, and afraid of the fire in her veins;

• Gail – rich, beautiful, spoiled — unable to distinguish between love and lust;

• Alison – cynical, free-wheeling, using sex as a bargain-counter commodity and her body as illegal tender;

• Dawn – aloof and withdrawn, running from one scandal into the tawdry trap of another;

• Lori – childlike, virginal, phantasizing [sic] about sex and unprepared for the realities of life;

• Melanie – the innocent, dedicated to her work, her life almost over before it begins…

…and this is their story, and the story of the men in their lives.

While vacationing in the historic California town of Monterey, Darcy Burnett accidentally ran into her old college roommate, Evie Wood, and Evie’s handsome newspaperman brother, Paul. Raven-haired Darcy, just out of nursing school, was a little awed by the Woods, with their fabulous country mansion and immense fortune.

But when Darcy was suddenly called to Wood Manor on private duty, she found that her dream palace was a nest of intrigue and danger. All too quickly she became entangled in a web of deception and evil.

Could she trust attractive Amos Chandler, another young newsman? Or should she turn to Paul, sometimes distant, sometimes too tantalizingly close for comfort?

As soon as word came from Dr. Russell Grover that a scrub-nurse position was available at Pentland General, Rose Lannen immediately left her nursing duties in New York and flew up to Pentland, Maine. It seemed odd that Rose would give up a big-city hospital for the smaller-scaled Pentland General, but Rose had an ulterior motive. Pentland General was where her half brother, Brian James, had worked until he was killed in a car crash, and Dr. Grover had told Rose that the austere chief of staff, Dr. Eric Hodges, had been the catalyst in Brian’s death. Apparently they had had an argument over Brian’s handling of a patient, and Brian, incensed, had raced off in his car and injured himself fatally. That had happened nearly two years before, and now Rose was determined to avenge Brian’s death by finding a way to expose Dr. Hodges professionally.

But everywhere Rose turned, she discovered that Dr. Hodges was respected, almost revered, as a top-notch surgeon. His assistant, the dark-goateed Ben Rivers, had only admiration for him; Scrub Nurse Mary Gray was obviously in love with him. Only Dr. Grover seemed as anxious as Rose to publicly dethrone the head man.

A delicate but crucial operation, in which Rose and Ben Rivers assist Dr. Hodges, brings matters to a dramatic climax in this story of a small-town hospital and its battle to preserve its standards.