When Jacqueline Clarke came from France to nurse at a Yorkshire hospital she had never known any Englishmen except her father. Soon she was to meet two very attractive ones; her farmer-cousin Guy, who ruled over his broad acres from a centuries-old farmhouse, and the distinguished surgeon of whom nurses spoke in awed whispers as “the great Mr. Broderick.”

Guy fell in love and started proposing marriage almost at once, while she wasn’t supposed even to speak to Mr. Broderick — and what a sensation there was when she did! She couldn’t presume to imagine that he would ever give her a serious thought…and yet the idea of him seemed to come persistently between her and Guy.

Nurse Kyria realized one dream in life — she had become a nurse. But her other dream — her dream of love — seemed beyond her reach.

Nurse Kyria Galonos walked as if she owned the earth and had a mortgage on the moon, for she was in love with Dr. David Nickolaides, head surgeon in the Greek fishing village on Florida’s west coast. And David was the only man Kyria ever wanted or needed. But David and Kyria both had financial responsibilities to their families — responsibilities that forced them to keep postponing their marriage.

Then suddenly two wealthy playboys entered Kyria’s life and offered her everything that David couldn’t…and love besides. Would David wake up before he lost Kyria to another man? Or would Kyria go on waiting endlessly for David and find one day that the exquisite rapture of her love had been dissipated by that waiting?

Did she cut any ice with the man she loved?

Inga Larsen, showing a newborn babe to its father, a baby she had helped to deliver…

Inga Larsen, soaring through the air on ice skates amid the gasps of thrilled spectators…

Which was she, student nurse or rink champion?

And which was the right man for her? Scott Marshall, ice-skating master, idol of her childhood, or Dr. Thor Eriksen, whom she had secretly loved for three years?

Inga Larsen just did not know, and both men were not making it any easier for her to find out!

Kate Saunders, a nurse on the staff of Mansfield Hospital as well as a graduate student in psychiatry at Stratton University, had a rigorous schedule and was glad to have the opportunity to take a working vacation as a ship’s nurse on a Caribbean cruise. Isolated from any news of her home town, it was only on her return that Kate found out that a sensational murder had taken place on the very night of her departure, that the chief suspect was one of her fellow students at the University with whom she had dined that same evening, that Kate was his alibi and a chief witness in his imminent trial.

The doctor to whom Kate was engaged advised her not to become involved — but Kate felt she had a duty to tell what she knew, however dangerous that might be.

Sister Alys had been in love with Doctor Richard Kent for a long time — at a distance. Then she was appointed to the post of Home Sister, which would bring them into contact — not knowing that Doctor Kent considered that particular post a great waste of a trained nurse’s time.