From the start Nurse Ann Persons was glad she’d moved to New York City from her small upstate hometown. She loved working in a big-city hospital with its daily challenges. She loved using her nursing skills to their fullest. She loved Manhattan, with its glamour, excitement, and variety. But Ann was not one to be overwhelmed by the sophisticated city. The new men in her life, flamboyant Dr. Ronald Laing and serious Dr. Craig Downing, both discovered that New York with its fast pace would never change Ann’s old-fashioned ideas about love. And the hospital hierarchy learned that nothing — absolutely nothing — could change the stubborn nurse’s old-fashioned ideas about putting her patients’ welfare above all else.

Pretty Ellen Whitaker, R.N., faces a choice between the handsome doctor she loves and the dark suspicions that threaten to ruin him.

Why did the people of Barfield avoid their hospital? Why did they whisper “criminal” about its director, Dr. Jerry Sterling, when they talked of the mysterious death of his beautiful wife, Naomi? And what was driving Naomi’s brother, Henry Barfield, to use his membership on the hospital board to ruin Dr. Sterling?

Desperately, pretty Ellen struggled to find the answers. Pitted against her consuming love for Jerry Sterling were the hostility of her neighbors and the terrible suspicions she could not shake free from her own mind. In a story shaken with passion, hiding at its heart a dreadful secret, Ellen Whitaker finds herself all but alone as the nurse against the town.

Doctors don’t keep you alive. I do.

Sometimes I help people live.
Sometimes I help them die.
Always, I help them. I’m a nurse.

The shocking, inspiring, surprise bestseller of the year. Nurse is the story of eight weeks in the life of a real nurse in a large urban hospital. It is all here: the joy and pain, the death and drama, the mistakes, successes and secrets. Nurse reads like a novel, but sticks in the memory like a real experience. Because it is.

Tossed on the winds of emotion.

A torrent of excitement race through her, as his lips met hers in a firm, gentle kiss.

Holly Doran, R.N., had come to Oregon on a temporary assignment, but she found something much more permanent there — a town of people she cared about, and a wonderful young doctor named Key Catrell.

There was only one problem — a handsome psychiatrist back in San Francisco who expected her to return to him, and with good reason — he was her fiance.

Pretty red-haired Karen Hayden was new at the hospital, but already she had a reputation for efficiency and dedication — since work came first in her life…

Then one night a tragic explosion brought scores of emergency patients to the hospital. In the excitement Karen was kissed by Clay Palmer — the handsome, aloof new intern all the nurses were whispering about. After that kiss, sensible as she was, Karen could not wipe the moody Dr. Palmer from her dreams.

It was only when Clay Palmer turned all his attention toward a female patient that Karen agreed to date flirtatious Jack Arlen, an ex-patient of her own, and the son of the most influential man in town. But Jack Arlen was more than an irresponsible playboy, as Karen would soon learn — and Clay Palmer was not a man whose kiss she could easily forget…