Nurse at Spirit Lake — Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

Ellen Ferris was aghast at her first sight of Scarlet Point Lodge. When Aunt Madeleine invited her to be resident nurse for the summer, she hadn't mentioned that the hotel she'd recently purchased on the shores of Iowa's Big Spirit Lake was in fact a run-down four-story monstrosity -- or that there were only four elderly guests and a young writer who did odd jobs in exchange for room and board. But Aunt Madeleine had ambitious restoration plans -- and she had hired handsome architect Frank Welborn to supervise them…