Jolie Benoit, R.N. — Ruth McCarthy Sears

For three long years lovely Jolie Benoit had been a nurse at bustling Empire General Hospital in New York. Now she was flying home to Kansas in a private plane--at the call of handsome young Senator Brad Benedict, who had deserted Jolie at the altar to pursue his political career.

When Jolie arrived, she found Brad at death's door. Romantic dreams were forgotten as she joined with Dr. Quentin Hale to fight for Brad's life. But the gnawing questions of the heart could not be long ignored. Should Jolie spurn the attentions of the brilliant doctor at her side? Was she helping to save a man who wanted only to use her, then break her heart again? Amid medical drama and emotional turmoil, Jolie Benoit, R.N. had to make the hardest and most fateful decision of her young life.