As a surgical nurse in Bay City General, Paula Winters had witnessed a miracle from time to time. But surely Dr. Steven Kramer’s interest in her was more than a miracle. In fact, it was impossible for someone as young and handsome as Dr. Kramer to like a girl as fat as she. Or so she kept telling herself. Then Paula realized Steven was being friendly to her only because her father and brother, both prominent doctors, could help him with his medical career.

Even after she lost her excess pounds and gained some new admirers, she was trapped in a lonely quandary. For Paula still couldn’t accept Steven — and she just wouldn’t settle for anyone else!

Nurse Lori Barnes agreed to work at a Nigerian clinic for the summer partly to help people — and partly to forget an unhappy romance in the States. She did her usual superb job as a nurse and was especially good with the children. But Lori soon learned there was no way of escaping romance problems. Though she’d been determined to avoid all men, she was now intrigued by two of the aggravating creatures: Dr. Fletcher Wilson, who was extremely handsome and knew it, and Grant Evans, a wealthy landowner whose distrust of women was as great as his rugged magnetism. Both of them promised to give her disappointment and heartache. Why couldn’t Lori forget them, ignore them, be sensible? Why?

Lovely Paulette Castle, R.N., tossed her red hair defiantly. She wasn’t the first young woman to be jilted, nor would she be the last. Now she was vacationing with her best friend at a resort-hotel in the Southwest. Occasionally, despite the much-needed change of scene, she felt the tears smarting behind her eyes.

But an unexpected emergency at the resort drove everything else out of her head when the attractive hotel doctor, Ross Lane, asked for her help in taking care of an accident victim — a handsome young man named Boyd Sheridan.

As the patient slowly recovered, Paulette wished she could forget her ex-fiance, but he kept cropping into her thoughts…But time passed, and Paulette felt closer to the new men in her life.

Then, in a revelation like that of the bright morning sun she realized whom she loved as she’d never loved before — and whom she was going to marry.

The lawless West was new to lovely young Nurse Williams — and so was danger.

When Nora Williams completed her nurse’s training and went home to the lawless West, she was determined to stay in this remote country where a nurse was so desperately needed.

But then one day, on a lonely mountain trail, as Nora was riding to a sick child, the silence was shattered by the bark of a gun. Suddenly Nora knew that the bullet had been meant for her!

Who was trying to keep this dedicated young nurse from her appointed task of helping the poor and defenseless in this wild country?

Nurse Laurel Winston, because she had had psychiatric training, was assigned to the night shift in the Suicide Prevention Center, and had the responsibility of taking phone calls from people who are ready to kill themselves, and giving them reassurance and hope. All such calls were difficult to handle, but when the caller was a young child who pulled on Laurel’s heartstrings, she almost failed to cope.