A Nurse Comes Home

By Ethel Hamill

“I meant to get down to Dr. Carson’s shindig yesterday, but we had an unexpected polio case brought in, and I was all day on the telephone locating another iron lung.”

The nightmare of two years locked in a prison camp in the Korean War are finally over, and Nurse Elizabeth Lane is sailing into San Francisco Bay, coming home to the man whose memory kept her alive all those endless days. But her fiancé, Dr. Marsh Carson, is nowhere to be seen when she steps off the boat—and instead she encounters renowned photographer Scott Alexander, who takes a photo of the homecoming nurse that makes her a war hero in newspapers across the country. When Elizabeth finally catches up with Marsh, she learns he’s become engaged to svelte minx Karen Russell—and when Marsh makes it clear he’d rather return to the woman he’d thought was gone forever, Karen unearths some nasty history about Elizabeth’s fellow prisoner of war and best friend, Barney Jordan. To protect Barney, Elizabeth announces her engagement to him—but both Marsh and Scott vow to stop the wedding, even if it means destroying Barney’s life—and Elizabeth’s heart.