Could Nurse Felicity give up her beloved mountain town and childhood sweetheart to marry a young city doctor?

Nurse Felicity grew up in the Georgia hill country and watched her father doctor the sick there. She understood the natives and they trusted her.

But Felicity loved a strong-willed mountain lawyer who resented her work. Could she forget him and start a new life with young Dr. Aleck Potter, somewhere away from “injun medicine and voodoo witchcraft”

“Perhaps I’d like to work in the maternity ward because it’s about the one place in the hospital where I won’t run into the new S.S.R.” Camilla Camden confided to her partner at the hospital Fancy Dress Ball.

It was just as well Camilla didn’t realize just who she was talking to!

His fiance was her patient.

Hope Bradshaw found happiness in nursing, because helping others gave her a sense of dignity and purpose. Her life seemed to be complete when the young resident at her hospital, Dr. Ray Shelley, asked her to marry him.

But then came the day when her fiance made a mistake which caused the death of a patient and Hope was faced with a terrible dilemma. Should she confess to his error and thereby save the career of the man she loved — or was her integrity as a nurse more important?

Nurse Trudy’s “paid vacation” at a mountain lodge threatened to ruin her career and estrange her from the man she loved!

Nurse Trudy Holmes left Dane Memorial Hospital to care for the post-operative wife of wealthy Dr. Malcolm Morse. Dr. Morse painted a glowing picture of Medicine Mountain as a quiet retreat which would be more of a “paid vacation” than a nursing assignment for Trudy.

Although she hesitated leaving the hospital and the two doctors she loved, Trudy accepted the assignment eagerly, for she had worked so hard for several years putting herself through nursing school and training at the hospital. But Trudy didn’t count on a pampered young debutante and an old country witch doctor complicating her life.

Could Trudy come down from Medicine Mountain with her reputation and her love unscarred? Trudy didn’t know…

They were marooned in an isolated farmhouse — and not one of them was sure that they would be rescued before the bridge was washed out and the house swept away.

There were:

Barbara Carroll, a beautiful blonde nurse, returning from vacation;

Scott Henderson, young, handsome, and resourceful, a member of the law firm of Blake, Smith and Henderson of Cincinnati, in Florida on business;

Millie and Ted Ashburn, a young couple expecting their first child at any moment;

Mr. and Mrs. Ross Henry Meredith, who arrive in their big black Cadillac — Henry definitely under the thumb of his domineering wife;

Tom Jones, his wife Marge, their small son, Stevie, and Marge’s old and critically ill father.

And last, there were:

Bud and Twitchy, teen-age hitchhikers; Bud was obviously the leader and Twitchy his faithful follower — and Barbara suspected that Bud was hatching up some devilment that boded no good for the rest of them.

Mrs. Humphries has written a gripping story of the ravages of a Southern flood, of a group of helpless people who are forced to share its horrors, and of the changes it brings to the life of each one of them.