Settlement Nurse

By Rosie M. Banks

“That girl is no place for a young man.”

Lucinda Warren works as a visiting nurse’s aide for the poor—but at work she is careful to hide the fact that she comes from a wealthy family because she doesn’t want her colleagues to think she’s just having some weird rich-girl fun. She’s serious about her job, and she feels she has found a chance to prove herself when she meets Kip Randall, a drunken sot who is the son of a pair of famous movie stars. He is clearly at rock bottom, but Cindy leaves the disheveled slum he lives in thinking he needs her help as a nurse—but also that she could fall in love with him. Kip knows he can never love Cindy as long as he is unable to stop drinking. Can Cindy be strong enough to let Kip battle his demons on his own, and will Kip be able to find the strength to fight off his addiction and offer himself as a whole man to the woman who loves him?