Calling Nurse Adams — Ann Pinchot

In the dark, forbidding mansion, and ardent young nurse meets her greatest challenge.

Klainu Adams was forced to face the age-old conflict of love and duty when she accepted the job as nurse to Lisa, a girl on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

HAS A DECICATED NURSE THE SAME RIGHT TO HAPPINESS AS OTHER WOMEN?

When Nurse Elaine Adams took the job as nurse-companion to rich, emotionally-ill young Lisa Atherton, she did not know that she would face the greatest test of her career.

But Even Elaine's friendship for Lisa's handsome friend, Paul Sheldon, grew into love. Then she learned that Lisa loved Paul too. And Elaine feared that without Paul the desperate girl might relinquish her precarious hold on life.

When tall, attractive Elaine Adams was first approached about going to stay with a girl who was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, she rejected the idea. What the girl needed, she felt, was a psychiatrist, not a nurse. The Dr. Sircomb, who had been a close friend of Elaine's doctor father, and who looked upon Elaine almost as a daughter, asked her to do it for him on a personal basis, using her knowledge of psychiatry to become a friend to her patient--and Elaine could no longer refuse.

And at The Ridges, the Connecticut Valley home of her patient, Elaine found that she could indeed help. For the core of Lisa's trouble, was her unhealthy upbringing by her mother, pleasure-loving Amy Calhoun, who had never really wanted a child, who had had Lisa's youthful runaway marriage annulled, and who now had no patience with her daughter's moods.

Elaine had not counted on becoming personally involved in Lisa's troubles--nor had she counted on meeting a neighbor of the Calhoun's, a brilliant young scientist whose eyesight had been endangered by cyclotron radiation in a laboratory in the Nevada desert... It was only later that Elaine learned of Paul Sheldon's connection with Lisa--and by then, it was too late...

Elaine's first thought was to run away, leaving a clear field for Lisa. Or should she stay and fight for the first real love of her life? Had a dedicated nurse the same right to happiness as any other woman? The reader will find the answer--at least for one nurse--in Mrs. Pinchot's deeply absorbing novel.