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Nursing the Heart
Books in series
#2
A Nurse for Mitch
2020
Nurse Lydia Simmons is assigned to a hospital in Laramie, Wyoming. She’s dedicated her life to caring for the sick and wounded, but when she meets a soldier, known only as Mitch, she is particularly drawn to him. Mitch has lost his memories and is desperate to re-discover himself. Lydia strives to help him, and soon finds herself falling for this lost soul, despite the fact that her heart belongs to another. A part of her fears what will be discovered if she helps Mitch find his memories. What secrets lurk in his darkened mind? Does he have a wife? A family? As glimpses of his past begin to surface, Lydia begins to wonder if helping him uncover his memories will be his downfall... or hers?
#3
A Nurse for James
2020
Can a broken soldier with a secret, and a grieving nurse find happiness together? After the death of her beloved brother, Ashley Myers takes up nursing. She graduates from The Harrow School of Nursing in 1868. Working as an assistant to a local doctor, she encounters one of his patients, a coal miner who has been cast aside by a greedy colliery owner. The terrible treatment this man and his fellow miners endured appalls Ashley, particularly since her own father died of the miner’s disease – black lung. In her next job, she becomes a private nurse for a wealthy recluse who is still recovering from war injuries. The War Between the States, has left James Whybrow broken in health and spirit. He is guilt ridden because he survived while his men perished. Will love allow these two to forget their torment? Can their fledgling love survive once James divulges his secret?
#4
A Nurse for Jacob
2020
Physician heal thyself While physical wounds heal with time, a special balm is needed to heal those sick of soul. In the Civil War aftermath, two such people’s paths cross. A recent graduate of the Harrow School of Nursing first class in May 1868, Lydia Andrews arrives at the Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, hired on Clara Barton’s endorsement. There she meets Doctor Jacob Johnston, and both soon learn that love is the salve to soothe wounded souls.
#5
A Nurse for Connor
2020
Going through the test scores, Miss Harrow sighed. “Well, Josey Beall actually passed.” With an exasperated look, the administrator groaned. “Oh dear, I’m afraid her patients will too?” Miss Harrow sighed. “There’s no way around it, we have to assign Josey to a patient she can’t kill.” \~~~ Joseph Stark looked at his son. More was broken than his leg. Ever since Connor’s fiancé had left him, his son had been despondent. It hadn’t helped when Connor’s horse fell on him. Staring at the newspaper ad about nurses, Joseph knew what he had to do. Connor had terrified the help long enough. Joseph would order a nurse for Connor. Maybe she would help him heal his leg and surly attitude.
#6
A Deceived Proxy Bride
2020
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.
#7
A Nurse for Daniel
2020
Gwen has graduated The Harrow School of Nursing and is sent to assist a recovering patient at the McAlister Plantation in Kentucky. Besides a bum-leg, a close-range blast during a Civil War battle has stolen all of Daniel’s childhood memories, and he now struggles with fitting into his old life, or finding motivation to begin anew. He underestimates the determination of the nurse his father hires, and is ill-prepared for the fight to win back his body, soul, and mind. When the unexpected baby is delivered to the McAlister doorstep, it changes everything for the couple who are just beginning to see beyond Daniel’s healing and into a possible future together. Can love survive misplaced duty and provide freedom for romance in the aftermath of a past that threatens it all? Join Daniel and Gwen in this heartwarming story of new beginnings.
#8
A Nurse for Niall
2020
FROM NURSE TO BRIDE! Alice Cordell is fed up with being shut away. She nursed her dying father and now wants to find a community that needs her and will accept her, limp and all! To that end, she trains as a nurse, graduating with the school's first class. The future seems bright until she is once again being forced into isolation, cut off from her new community of Kilbourne City, Wisconsin in The Dells. No one could blame Niall MacKenzie for growling at the woman. After all he caught her staring through his back window. Worse yet, minutes later she told him she was his caretaker. He already hates most people in town after the bitter lie they believe about him. Her insistence that he start doctoring those locals has him seeing red. Soon he has a fragile, tempting nurse to both watch over and resist. A woman who reminds him that he is a man. As for Alice, the surprise waiting for her will lead to an unwanted marriage and a rivalry that threatens her only hope for a career and a home.
#10
A Nurse for Wyatt
2020
Jessica Simone has earned her nursing degree, and when she’s sent to a hospital in Nebraska, she feels the Lord had blessed her. Her fiancé who had been reported missing during the Civil War is alive and in the hospital. Although Wyatt's face is bandaged, she doesn’t need to see him to know that he’s the man she loves. If only he would remember her…
#11
A Nurse for Fallon
2020
Adelaide ‘Addie’ Sherman - A star student at the school for nursing, graduates and is sent to Kansas at the request of Dr. Baker for a patient – Fallon, a card sharp, who is in a coma after having a fight with a wealthy rancher’s son – Charles Walker. If Fallon dies, Charles could go to prison for life or be hung. Only if Fallon regains consciousness can he tell the real story about what happened and clear Charles.
#12
A Nurse for Clark
2020
Zoe Blye lost everything in the War of Northern Aggression, her home and family, everything but her fighting spirit. Alone in the world and on the run from her murderous cousin, she enrolled in the Harrow School of Nursing, earned her nursing certificate, and volunteered for an assignment as far from the known world as possible—Fort Benton, Montana. Upon arrival in Fort Benton, Zoe meets her employer, Dr. Clark West, and immediately recognizes him as the Yankee Cavalry officer that destroyed her home. Out of options, Zoe has no choice but to stay in the cold, barren wilderness with the man who ruined her life, at least for a little while…
Authors
Marie Higgins
Author · 96 books
Margaret Tanner
Author · 102 books
Caryl McAdoo
Author · 33 books
Patricia PacJac Carroll
Author · 66 books
Marlene Bierworth
Author · 48 books
Marisa Masterson
Author · 48 books
Melissa Lynne Blue
Author · 11 books
Donna Schlachter
Author · 7 books
Susan Horsnell
Author · 34 books
Nursing the Heart
Series ·
13
books · 2020
By
Marie Higgins
,
Margaret Tanner
,
Caryl McAdoo
, and more
#13
A Nurse for Caleb
2020
In 1868, Tessa, a Mennonite nurse graduates from nursing school and is assigned to the Amana Colonies in Iowa because of her expertise in treating asthma and other breathing problems. As a former student at a women's medical school, she knows more than most about respiratory diseases. She's also had her fair share of heartbreak when, upon her mentor's death, she was forced to abandon her dream of becoming a doctor. Will she be able to use her skills? Or will her gender keep her from helping those who truly need her?Seth, a widower in Amana, is still nursing a broken heart from his sweetheart's passing two years before. Now raising their invalid son Seth on his own, he wonders why God didn't listen to his prayers for healing for his family. Caleb has been afflicted with the same form of asthma that killed Anna, and Seth stands by helplessly as his son fades away. Can he trust God and trust medicine, or is faith in one mutually exclusive of faith in the other?
#14
A Nurse for Brayden
2020
Genevieve Masters, Ginny to her friends, has achieved her lifelong dream of becoming a nurse. Following training in Baltimore at the Harrow School of Nursing, she secures a position caring for children at The Philadelphia Children's Hospital. It is here she meets the handsome, but troubled, Dr. Brayden Jenkins. Can Ginny break down the carefully constructed walls surrounding Brayden's heart, or is he destined to remain alone and bitter?
#15
A Nurse for Walter
2020
Nurse Shannon is a graduate from the Maryland School of Nursing and is sent to the Franssen hospital in Maple Grove, Tennessee, a mere day’s coach ride from her bordering home state of Kentucky. She is not expecting an onslaught of suitors to come calling. When her interfering father sends his choice for husband, and a carefree cowboy takes an interest in pursing her, but all the while, her heart yearns for the affections of her boss, Walter Franssen, the distraught woman soon realizes that any match will threaten her dream of working in the field of medicine. Will her heart win the battle over her head? Join the fated couple as they walk the fine line of a whirlwind courtship, filled with adventure, grief and heartbreak.