Courage Wears White

By Florence Stonebraker

“She smiled back, and decided that the melting feeling that came over her when he was near might well be the beginning of some form of virus.”

Nurse Courage Williams is named in honor of her grandfather, a World War II hero, and she’s going to have to work hard to live up to her name at Shields Memorial Hospital. There she’s caring for poor Wally Savage, a sad young man recovering from a suicide attempt after his domineering mother destroyed his love life and his budding career as a singer, but it’s an uphill battle—the ferocious Mrs. Savage has enlisted brilliant but intense surgeon Dr. Bert Ives in her efforts to bring Wally into line. Now Courage is going toe-to-toe with Bert to defend Wally from charges that he is dangerous, which would give Bert the right to perform a personality-crippling lobotomy. Her battles with Bert are complicated by the fact that he is obsessed with Courage because she resembles his own mother, who had doted Bert’s deceased brother Kevin, killed in a shark attack off the coast of California. Courage will need every ounce of strength to save Wally from spending the rest of his life as a ghost of his former self, locked away in an institution. And on top of her struggles at work, she also needs to fight for her own future—but will she find the power to rescue the man she loves from his beautiful and glamorous fiancée?