During the War Between the States, Isobelle Styles helps a fugitive Union soldier. She nurses him back to health then he disappears from her life, leaving her to be captured by the soldiers who are pursuing him. After the war she tries unsuccessfully to get a nursing job. A skilled war surgeon offers her a job if she will become the proxy bride of his reclusive nephew. With her money fast running out, she is desperate enough to agree. On arrival at the doctor’s house she meets her new husband and realizes she has made a terrible mistake. Will she stay and try to make the marriage work? Or will she go? Previously published as A Nurse for Liam in the now disbanded series Nursing the Hearts.