Nurse Greer

By Joan Garrison

“You may have my permission to seize your dreadful instruments and have at my poor, helpless body.”

When wealthy old Mr. Clarke died, he tried to repay the love and kindness Nurse Mary Greer had shown him with a large bequest. But when Mr. Clarke’s disinherited family attacked Mary’s professional integrity, her fiancé Paul Tate feared that the scandal would destroy his chances of winning the election for mayor of Port West. Mary felt pressured to end the engagement—and without a shining knight to defend her honor, she rolled up her sleeves to fight it out alone. In her work to prove the truth, she found a valiant ally in Bill Underwood, a newspaperman with an eye for a good story and an innate respect for honesty. But would Bill dare to take on a would-be mayor—not just in a contest for political power, but for Mary’s love?

“In this novel, a wealthy old man died, leaving all his money to the Ida Varrow Rest Home for the Aged. His heirs contested the will—makes a lively tale.” Wasau Daily Record-Herald, February 1955