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.

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…

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…?

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.

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…