Which was quite complicated enough, even before she fell foul of John's disapproving brother Peter!

    Before long she found herself involved enough to forget the past. Whether the involvement lay in her deep interest in Luke Hallward. the surgeon in charge, or in Doctor Vicente, the aristocratic Spaniard, looking for a wife, she could not be sure. But the beautiful American millionairess founder of the hospital refused to tolerate the newcomer and intended to get rid of her by fair means or foul.

    It fell to Phil Barton’s young English jackaroo to become her first patient – but he was by no means the last.

    Genevieve's Hospital. She hoped her new-found love for the surgeon William Gregory would help her to surmount her difficulties--but found that the resentment of his two teenage children only added to them.

    Mark Charlton as she left the Nurses' Residence, and was astounded to hear him say, “I'm leaving Grinsley Hospital. I'm going to Africa, and I want you to come with me.”He went on to explain. “I'm not satisfied with the work I'm doing here where I don't feel I'm really needed. But there are places where I could feel I was doing vital work. In West Africa, for instance there are thousands of people without a chance of medical help when they need it. So that's where I'm going to Nigeria in fact. I'll need an assistant, for though I shall recruit African nurses to help, of course, I must have someone with me at the beginning, and I think you're the sort of partner I need.”Although Katherine did not give the doctor her answer immediately, she knew she could not turn down the chance to share such a venture with the man she had come to love.