Nurse of the Grand Canyon — Virginia K. Smiley

Kathleen fell in love at first sight…

The Grand Canyon was a long way from New York City…

…but pretty young nurse Kathleen McMasters was ready for a big change. She became enchanted by the spectacular beauty of the West and decided that this was where she wanted to live and work.

One of the first people Kathleen met in Grand Canyon Village was little Kerry Laughlin. Kathleen was charmed by the child, and Kerry thought Kathleen would make the perfect wife for her handsome widower father, Pete.

Kathleen truly liked Pete. But she also found herself attracted to another man. Now she would have to choose between them…



The decision to visit the Grand Canyon on her vacation was to prove to be an important one for dark-haired Kathleen McMasters, for from that moment on, the whole tenor of her life was to change.

It was not long before she realized that she wanted to live and work in Grand Canyon Village, so she headed for the most natural place to her -- the hospital. But even her time there was to be short-lived. Pete Loughlin, a park naturalist, needed a private nurse for his young daughter, Kerry. Pete, a widower, had lost his wife in an accident, and Kerry now needed the emotional and physical care that a nurse such as Kathleen could give her.

Kathleen settled happily into her new arrangement, growing fonder of Kerry each day. And she managed to have time for dark, rugged Cal Fulton, a man who delighted the tourists to the Grand Canyon by running mule-train rides up and down the trails. But when lovely Louise Ashton, Pete's sister-in-law, turned up, full of guilt in thinking that she had been responsible for her sister's death, Kathleen, to her surprise, felt a pall descend over her sense of contentment. Would Pete transfer his feelings for his late wife to Louise? And how would this affect her own regard for Cal?

Hero: Cal Fulton
Heroine: Kathleen McMasters