More than the hardships of the frozen North awaited pretty Holly Andrews when she arrived at the primitive hospital at the remote Alaskan outpost of Barrow. She was prepared to help fight the twin scourges of disease and superstition that afflicted the native Eskimos — but both the quick temper of the doctor in charge and the troubling attentions of a brash bush pilot caught Holly off guard.

Could she work under a doctor who seemed to despise her? Could she fall under the spell of a man who seemed as irresponsible as he was handsome? It took a terrifying medical crisis and a stark confrontation with tragedy to point Holly toward her destiny.

Nine stories about nurses and nursing, including…

Girl in White — only after Scotty had turned her back on love did she discover what love really means.

Flight Nurse — true story of the first combat Air Force nurse to win three Oak Leaf Clusters for bravery in World War II.

Candy Stripers — a teen-age volunteer almost runs away on her first day at the hospital.

A Cap for Mary Ellis — could she find the courage to be the first Negro student in an all-white school for nurses?

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.