Rangeland Nurse — Suzanne Roberts

STAND FAST, NURSE TRUDI

When Trudi Dalton arrived at Brandywine Ranch in Texas, she was not even sure why she had come. She was answering a newspaper ad on impulse--a whim for adventure and romance. But when she saw her patient, the pathetic little boy, crippled and confined to a wheelchair, her heart reached out to him.

And when she met little Ricky's father, the handsome, lonely rancher whose wife had died, she found she was irresistibly drawn to him, despite his belligerent, even rude attitude toward her. Could it be that she was doomed to love--unreturned?

Trudi Dalton left the bluegrass country of Kentucky on a very special journey. On a sprawling ranch set in the deep purple mountains of the West, a little boy named Ricky was confined to a wheelchair. And the young nurse had come to take care of him.

Trudi soon discovered that her real problem was not in nursing the boy, rather it was in dealing with his father, widower Matt Frazier. For the handsome rancher's bitterness and indifference to his son provoked Trudi's fiery temper. Yet, unwillingly, she found herself falling in love with Matt Frazier.

Faces with a terrible crisis that would affect all their lives, Trudi would be forced into a desperate gamble -- if she succeeded, they could become a united family -- and if she failed, she might lose both Ricky and Matt...