Desert Nurse — Jane Arbor

After the break-up of her romance with Greg Ryder, Nurse Martha Shore decided that the best thing to do was to get away from it all. Which she did with a vengeance when she accepted Doctor Jude Tarleton's offer of a post at his tiny hospital east of Aden. She had successfully managed to jump out of the frying-pan. But did her new job, in the burning desert heat, not only ominously resemble the proverbial fire? For it was not long before Martha had to admit that her love for Greg was forgotten in her new, overwhelming attraction to Jude -- an attraction which he made clear was not returned. How could she hope to appeal to him, anyway, when the experienced and glamorous Naomi was already so firmly in the picture?