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Nursing the Heart
Series · 13
books · 2020

Books in series

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#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?
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#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?
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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.
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#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…
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#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.
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#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…
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#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?
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#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?
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#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.

Authors

Margaret Tanner
Margaret Tanner
Author · 91 books

Margaret Tanner is an award winning, best selling author. As well as writing historical novels set in frontier Australia she has discovered a love for writing Western Romance. Her novella, Edwina of Connecticut is one of the 50 novels in the American Mail Order Bride series. Christmas Cowboy is in the Western Christmas Anthology, Silver Belles And Stetsons. . She has had numerous short stories published over the years, but writing Historical romance novels is her passion. Her favourite historical period is the 1st World War. Not only has she painstakingly researched this era, but was fortunate enough to make a poignant pilgrimage to the battlefields of Gallipoli (in Turkey), France and Belgium. She is married with three grown up sons, and two gorgeous grand-daughters. Margaret lives in Australia. She has recently retired from work, and hopes to concentrate on her writing.

Caryl McAdoo
Caryl McAdoo
Author · 27 books

Born in California, Caryl McAdoo got to Texas in time to celebrate her first birthday. As a Dallas seventh grader, she remembers a homework essay on ‘What will you be doing in 2000?’ Looking into the future, she saw herself as an inter-galactically famous author, streaking from planet to planet signing books. She laughs, “But I didn’t start writing again until the late ’80s, then was so blessed to find the DFW Writers’ Workshop in ’93.” Her first book debuted ’99, then for the next nine years, she averaged a title a year from four traditional presses: two non-fiction, four novels, and three mid-grade chapter books. In March 2014, her first historical Christian romance VOW UNBROKEN debuted from Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. In April that year, she re-released LADY LUCK'S A LOSER (formerly The Apple Orchard Bed and Breakfast) with a new chapter. In September 2014 HEARTS STOLEN, book two in the Texas Romance Family Saga historical romance series, debuted as her first new Indie, and in November A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, her first Biblical fiction series The Generations launched. So four titles in 2014. Book three of the historical Family Saga HOPE REBORN debuted in January 2015 to start off a whole new year with eleven new titles planned. THE PREACHER'S FAITH comes in February, Caryl's first contemporary in Red River Romance series. THEN THE DELUGE COMES, volume two of The Generations, follows in March. Since 2014, she's published over sixty new books, averaging over seven new titles a year through 2020. She completed the 'Texas Romance Family Saga' with a total of ten novels, plus several 'Texas Companion Books'! Plus, she's eight books into a second series, the 'Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga' and debuts a third New Beginnings saga's book one WAGONS WEST in November 2022, her fifth book for the year. Also known as Grami, she adores twenty-five grandsugars, and she and O’Pa—her high school sweetheart and husband of fifty+ years write together. She’s dedicated to advancing God’s Kingdom through her novels, praying her story gives God glory! Caryl loves to share her testimony, pray, and praise and worship Him; He frequently gives her new songs. She believes all good things are from Him and that her books will minister His love, mercy, and grace to her readers. Irving, Texas remained her lifelong home until 2008 when she and Ron followed God’s leading to Red River County in the far northeast corner of the Lone Star State. There at The Peaceable, the twenty acres of blessings they call home, the McAdoos raise chickens and goats while waiting for God to open the next door!

Melissa Lynne Blue
Author · 11 books
A Registered Nurse by night, Melissa battles the stresses of life and illness by enjoying uplifting tales of love and romance. A firm believer in true love united with an enduring fascination with history has prompted her pursuit of romance writing. She lives in beautiful Big Sky Country Montana with her husband and children.
Susan Horsnell
Author · 26 books

I was born in Manly on the Northern Beaches in Sydney, Australia and grew up in the west after we moved there to help my brother’s eczema which was made worse by salt air. I now reside in the beautiful sunny state of Queensland. My dad had the biggest impact on my life. I have always had an overactive imagination and would often tell him stories which floated in my mind. He encouraged me to put pen to paper convinced that one day they would become published books. Apart from marrying the love of my life, the highlight of my life was being accepted into Nursing just before my 16th birthday. It had been a long-time dream and one which encompassed 37 years of my life. Along with nursing, being married to a Naval Officer for almost 47 years, and posted in numerous places, gave me experiences which I have written into many of my books. We enjoy traveling the country with our Caravan/RV, and Jack Russell puppy by the name of Gemma who will be joining us. As my parents were British, never Australian citizens, I hold dual citizenship and we plan to take advantage of this to spend two years traveling the UK and Europe in the near future. It will also give me the opportunity to catch up with many family members who reside in England. My books are in various genres - Western Historical Romance-both steamy and sweet, Contemporary Romance-steamy and sweet, Male/Male, Australian Outback and City Romance. I also have one menage and one paranormal romance along with two children's books. As I said earlier, I have a rather overactive imagination. I hope you will pick up one of my books and when you close the cover on one of my stories it will be with a satisfied sigh. Author Links Blog: http://susanhorsnell.com Web: http://www.susanhorsnellromanceauthor... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/susanhorsnel... Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/susan... You can email me at: horsnells@yahoo.com.au

Marlene Bierworth
Marlene Bierworth
Author · 45 books

Marlene Bierworth lives in Ontario, Canada and her goal is to inspire her readers to "Dream Big Dreams and Live Big Lives. She seasons her stories to include action, adventure, romance and emotional conflicts, with the meat of the tale touching on current issues that concern families. When the story is told, the book ends, whether it is a short story or a full length novel. Included on her list are books for 'Teens' and the 'young at heart', intended to inspire readers to put feet to their dreams. Marlene has written adventures, romance, suspense, historical western and mysteries for both teens and adults. You can find a complete list of titles at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00J9RM116 Life's experiences feed Marlene's imagination and from them evolve characters and adventures that will keep the reader turning the pages. Fiction is her favorite genre but non-fiction continually tugs at her heart strings when there is a truth to be told or encouragement to give. She has published Book 1 in an ongoing series on the "ABC'S of MARRIAGE" complete with tips and worksheets for study and reflective purposes, for private study between couples or for groups. Successful marriages are her passion and she loves to interact with others to promote healthy marriages. "Life is an adventure waiting to be told" and it is Marlene's goal to "help book lovers experience it to the fullest." Join her fan base and stay informed. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/11180... BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/marle... She is also on Facebook Marlene Bierworth and Twitter (@MBierworth, Pinterest, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Marie Higgins
Marie Higgins
Author · 93 books
Marie Higgins is an award-winning, best-selling author of clean romance novels.
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