Nurse for the Fishermen — Teresa Holloway

Nurse Cappy Quinn was not at all certain that she had done the right thing by returning to Captain's Cove, the tiny Florida fishing village that had been her childhood home -- and home to four generations of seafaring Quinn's before her. The Captain's Quinn had financed the building of Fisherman's Hospital, and to carry out the strong Quinn tradition of service, Cappy had left her post in Boston to take the job of supervisor of nurses at Fisherman's.

Reporting for her first day on duty, Cappy's reluctance was not assuaged by the chaotic conditions that prevailed at the poorly financed hospital, which was functioning with a skeleton crew, headed by Dr. Richmond Gee, an energetic young newcomer to the Cove. Although strongly attracted to Dr. Gee, Cappy doubted if his lean good looks could ever make her forget another doctor, burly Steve Rhoden in Boston, whose kisses had excited her intensely.

But at Fisherman's Hospital Cappy had time to think of little else besides her patients, especially Clem Saunders, the victim of a gunshot wound, and little Betsy Fortune, whose tragic death prompted her father to file a malpractice suit against Dick Gee.

At first it did not occur to Cappy that these two cases, seemingly so different, might bear some relation to each other. But the links between them were gradually elucidated as Cappy slowly realized that the sleepy fishing town was caught up in an undercurrent of hatred and suspicion as dangerous as it was mysterious.