A lovely young nurse must decide: settle for a secure marriage or fight for the man she loves.

She saw her friend’s happiness destroyed by love.

Sherry Allen’s roommate, Nurse Melinda Collins, spent her nights sobbing and her days drinking — pursued by a shameful secret, by the inescapable consequences of a moment of heedless passion.

It was only when the unhappy girl attempted a desperate way out of her trouble that Sherry learned the cause of her friend’s anguish was a man. it was then that Sherry realized she, too, must face up to a crisis of the heart. Before it was too late, the young nurse had to choose: settle for security…or, like Melinda, take a reckless gamble on love.

The intriguing story of a wealthy family ruled by a tyrannical woman, and a pretty nurse who dares to fall in love — with the wrong man.

Mrs. Breckenridge’s maniacal possessiveness had turned her handsome son into a peevish playboy, her daughter into a shrill, contemptuous and cheating wife, her son-in-law into a drunken failure. When it seemed as though one of her captives might break away, Mrs. Breckenridge had another heart attack and threatened to change her will.

In accepting the wealthy hypochondriac as a patient, special nurse Donna Walton had no way of knowing that she was to be used as bait in the old woman’s devious scheme to keep her son by her side…forever.

Nurse Hilary Westbrook finds romance and other surprises when she learns the meaning of unselfish devotion to others.

Doctor Stuart Marsden was too busy for love…

…until beautiful Hilary Westbrook, R.N. joined him in his uphill fight to better conditions for all the oldsters in the community. Then Doctor Marsden realized his efficient assistant was also a woman — and a lovely one!

Grace Stone was probably the best surgical nurse at Pentland Hospital. Attractive Dr. Mark Briar often told her so. And most of the staff was first-rate. But that could not be said of Dr. Graham Underwood. Though he had a big reputation in the outside world, the hospital staff knew Underwood for the greedy, careless surgeon he was. But no one made a formal complaint against him until young Dr. Richard Moore was ready to do battle with the man. Grace knew that in some ways Richard was right to fight Dr. Underwood publicly. But she also knew the battle could unjustly destroy the good name of their very fine hospital. Would she ever find the wisdom to take the right stand in this complex situation?

A lovely young nurse is forced to choose between her love for a brilliant young doctor and her pity for a dying man…

Love…or loyalty?

Such choices had never been a problem for Elaine Forrester. The lovely nurse’s keen sense of integrity had always guided her professional — and her personal — life…But then, she had never been truly in love. Until now.

And now was when Jay Lowell, her dearest friend, needed her most. He was gravely ill, a victim of chronic nephritis. He wanted her near him. He needed her — and her love.

How could she give up everything she so passionately hungered for, in exchange for a future that promised only despair? How could she deny the insistent urgings of the young doctor whom she loved…and the yearnings of her own heart?