Was she risking more than she would win in the game of life?

Pretty, auburn-haired Merilee Maxwell was happy in her position as nurse and in her love for tall, red-haired Dr. Kendall Ryder to whom she was secretly engaged.

But suddenly the serenity of her world was threatened when TV-Western star Tex Howard was admitted to the hospital after being injured in a mysterious accident. Tex was dangerously attractive, and the way he set about working his charm on Merilee was enough to turn any girl’s head.

It wasn’t until she was caught in an explosive incident at the local fair that Merilee realized just how dangerous was her relationship with the handsome singing cowboy. She had followed her heart and it had led her into trouble. Had she gone too far to turn back…?

Pretty Polly Brundage, her R.N. diploma as crisply new as her uniform, finds both pleasant and unpleasant surprises when she comes to nurse in the lovely old Southern mansion she had known all her life…

Polly Brundage’s nursing uniform was still too new to swap for a wedding gown… This she tactfully made Gary Maynard see before things went too far. But was it true? Polly promptly closed her mind on Peter, handsome Peter Hamilton, older brother of Polly’s best friend. If Leisa were only at “Sundown” instead of being off in New York…there was plenty of interior decorating to be done right here! And exterior decorating, too.

Polly really needed her friend, and for her own sake Leisa should come home. And then everything started to happen…

Watch out, Nurse Frances!

To forget the pain of a tragic romance, Nurse Frances Kirkman went out to Shadow Manor to act as companion to its elderly mistress. In that quiet countryside, she would try to achieve peace of mind.

But that hope turned out to be a will-o-the-wisp as Frances found when she learned the secret of the manor’s other woman — the young and willful niece of her employer. For that secret meant danger and trouble.

Yet there was also the attractive Dr. Ralph Grant around…and he seemed to be capable of starting Frances’ wounded heart beating to a new and more exciting tune.

Alice Fitzgerald, a glamorous young debutante, shocked her family when she decided to become a nurse. At the turn of the century nursing was considered a degrading profession, but Alice was drawn to it and spurned her life of idleness among the rich. When she entered the Nurses Training School at Johns Hopkins, she little dreamed that she would achieve worldwide fame. She served as a nurse in the Sicily earthquake area and with the British Army on the front lines in France during World War I. Later she became Chief Nurse for the American Red Cross, fighting disease and starvation among Europe’s homeless millions and organizing modern nursing schools in key cities. She pioneered the work of Public Health Nursing in the United States and then in the Philippines, and established nursing schools in the Far East.

She followed her heart — even though it meant facing danger.

The scream of tortured tires, an echoing crash, an overturned automobile… Within crowded seconds, the overindulged scion of the prominent Hauser family lay on the brink of death.

Nurse Annette saved his life — and earned first the gratitude and then the wrath of his powerful father. And as she found herself involved in a bitter controversy in which lives as well as principles were at stake, she realized that only her heart could supply the answer to her most vital dilemma…