Village Nurse // District Nurse

~~~ first published 1957 by Mills & Boon ~ original title "District Nurse"

A district nurse's life, Jill Somers found, is a most full and rewarding one, particularly in the country. She felt that the whole village belonged to her. There was no house where she wasn't welcome, no family whose joys and worries she hadn't shared; even every new baby was, in a way, specially hers. The village's friendly interest in her found a natural outlet in a wish to see her married, with a family of her very own; and what more natural than that they should couple her name with that of the nice young bachelor who had come as assistant to old Dr. Rideout? Dr. Perry himself had hopes of making headway with Jill; so he was disturbed when she began to show an interest in the mysterious. almost sinister stranger who had suddenly appeared in the neighborhood. Did the new attraction go deep with Jill, or was it a brief infatuation from which she would soon recover?