Bright Destiny — Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

Jolie called it "a gift from God." Indeed, when first they met, she was a nun in a Strasbourg convent; he was a dashing Scottish doctor. Together, they dared to nurse wounded Huguenots, when fled France... and in Rorke's arms, Jolie was born as a woman. Now married, the couple sought refuge in Britain, where they opened an infirmary in Newcastle. Jolie's dreams had come true. Under her husband's tutelage, she became a skilled nurse and supreme lover. Until fate suspiciously intervened. Suddenly, Rorke was ordered into the king's service to fight on the raging battlefields of Flanders. Jolie, for safety's sake, was sent to kinfolk in the Highlands -- only to be caught in an unscrupulous scheme to rob her of both her legacy and her love. But the fiery beauty vowed that no force on God's earth would diminish her passion for Rorke or the belief that their love would triumph over all.