Decision to Love — Alice James

When lovely Susan Lorimer came to Chicago, she was fleeing a past scarred by family tragedy in a bleak mining town. Never again would she know poverty, she vowed. Her job as nurse in the city's most glittering department store would be a stepping stone to a golden future. When Walter Hadley, owner of the store, proposed marriage to Susan, it seemed that her dream had come true. Though he was older, Walter was handsome, sophisticated, kind. "I can learn to love him," Susan thought. When good looking young Dr. Peter Harrison told her brutally that she was throwing her life away, Susan was shocked and angry. It took a shattering medical emergency to force Susan to decide what kind of nurse and woman she really was.

Hero: Dr./Doctor Peter Harrison
Heroine: Nurse Susan Lorimer