The Nurse Was Kidnapped — Adelaide Humphries

No one at the hospital in Wainsburg, North Carolina--no one but Dr. Ivan Street--knew that Sharron Adams was not what she seemed. The willowy dark-haired beauty was a registered nurse, but she was using an assumed surname and living with a simplicity to which she was unaccustomed.

Only fair-haired Jim Cannon, nicknamed "Cap," whose love for repairing ships' engines had brought him to work at a nearby marina, knew that Sharron was an heiress to millions. Sharron and Cap had grown up together in Palm Beach, Florida, and somehow they had never dropped the teasing camaraderie of the brother-sister relationship of their childhood. Cap's offhand manner and his streak of irresponsibility had never seemed as romantically exciting to Sharron as the quiet intensity and penetrating dark gaze of Dr. Ivan Street.

Although at first his advances annoyed her, and his discovery of her true identity proved disconcerting, Sharron came to respect the handsome intern she had once discounted as a playboy. Ivan was studying psychiatry, and he had already been of great help to little Kula, the half-Vietnamese granddaughter of his friend Pete Jenkins, who ran a diner.

Sharron and Ivan were soon dating steadily, and as their romance became less casual, Cap's behavior, on the few occasions Sharron saw him, became more unusual. Caught up in her new happiness, Sharron gave little reflection to the change in Cap--until the evening she was forced into a stranger's car as she walked home from the hospital.