Frank Carlson Library

In a remote mountain clinic, nurse Nora Kane found the secret of her questing heart.

Standing five feet, eight inches in her stockinged feet, Kay Fleming never played down her height, but carried her dark head high. On the eve of graduation from Heritage Hosital School of Nursing, she no longer regretted not having trained to become a doctor; a nurse, she knew now, played almost as vital a part in saving lives as a doctor. She hadn't counted on falling in love--but Duke Malone, tall, sandy-haired coach at State College, was a man...

Laura Kramer had always felt that she was an outsider, a looker-on of life--and she desperately wanted to be like other girls. Getting away from her family--getting away from the wheat fields of Kansas that she loved--was perhaps the answer. Getting away would answer another of Laura's needs, too--a longing to be a part of the great defensive forces of her country. And so Laura Kramer, of the coppery-gold hair and the sky manner, left for yeoman...

Jo Mellor's sunny blonde hair always had an unsettling effect upon men--but she was not prepared for the sudden interest of Jack Hurley--a handsome navy pilot she met on only the first day of her new assignment. The trip to Hawaii had been exciting enough, and now, in the Officers Club, she was in for another experience as Jack strode over to her table and introduced himself. It wasn't long before Jo, despite her roommate's oblique warnings, was...