Lovely young Cass Fleming wanted nothing more than to be a good nurse. But suddenly her work at City Hospital, the suffering of small helpless children and kind elderly people, seemed too much for her. To make matters worse, her fiance, Dr. Dan Driscoll, could not understand her feelings. Could she marry a man who was that cold-hearted?

Cass decided she needed to get away from it all — to sort out her bruised and mixed-up emotions. The remote Navajo Reservation, where her Aunt Norma taught school, seemed the perfect refuge.

But “getting away” wasn’t quite that easy. There were the Navajo people whom she quickly learned to love, and who needed her help. And there was the tall, self-assured young flyer, Sandy Russell, whose playful mockery suddenly turned into something much more serious. Cass realized there was no escape from life and its decisions…and the most important decision of all still lay in wait for her.

She found pride — and romance — in her work among the poor.

Nurse Andrea Drake had grown up without parents. An orphan, she felt special sympathy for the lonely, the sick, the needy. Her work at a settlement house in the city’s worst slum area brought Andrea a fulfillment she’d dreamt of.

But when a new surgeon was appointed, Andrea found herself embroiled in an old tangle, for he was the doctor who had once fired her from an important nursing assignment.

The stage was set for, yes, another clash between the successful, experienced surgeon and the dedicated young nurse — and only brilliant Dr. Steve Jordan stood between them…

A new tragedy drove him to an old love…was Lillian’s doctor gone forever?

She knew from the moment he called that Dr. Dean Warner was disturbed. Very disturbed. A tragic accident had critically injured a 5-year-old child and Nurse Lillian Bryant was called upon to deliver superhuman services.

As the days passed Lillian puzzled at Dean Warner’s passionate involvement with the child’s welfare, a concern which was bringing him to the point of collapse.

Then the rumors began. About Dean and the child’s exotic mother. About a forgotten youth. About the man Lillian loved who expected her to give her own life for a beautiful nightmare out of his past.

An adventurous career girl caught up in the fury and romance of the newspaper world.

“I’m a nurse! Not a woman!”

She kept repeating the words to herself as she looked down at Pete’s broken body. His shirt was in rags, one trouser was ripped from ankle to knee, and there was a terrible gash on his forehead.

She took out bandages and antiseptic and began to dress the wounds — all the time trying to forget that the battered man was the one she loved.

The others in the clinic had turned their backs for a moment. She leaned down quickly and brushed her lips against his bruised cheek. “Oh, my darling,” she cried softly. “My poor darling.”

It would have been hard to find two sisters as different as Lena and Jan Mitchell. Redhaired Lena, head nurse at Middleboro General, was unselfish, considerate, dedicated to her work. Blonde, greedy Jan was a nurse in name only, dedicated to herself. Yet it was Jan who attracted widowed Dr. Jim Porter, the young hospital chief…Jan who schemed to become the second Mrs. Porter. Could Lena stop her sister from ruining a wonderful man’s life…without exposing the bitter secret of her own heart?