Author: Jeanne Judson
Published: ©1965
Publisher: Avalon
Illustrator: Edrien King
She is credited on the inside cover flap, and her signature is to the left of the nurse’s right elbow.
Women’s Hospital had
been founded by women and was staffed by women, and Julie Sheridan, who had
wanted to be a doctor but was forced to give up the dream because she must
educate her younger sister, found it infinitely satisfying to work there.
Everyone in the hospital was talking about the beautiful and wealthy Alice Danver,
who had just lost her baby. Mrs. Roger Danver had a grown son, and this baby
had been looked forward to with joy by Alice and her second husband. Mrs.
Danver was a VIP—not only was she a member of the board, but she was a
granddaughter of one of the founders—and most of the nurses would have been
delighted to be selected as the nurse to accompany Alice Danver home. Not so
Julie, who was bent on learning all that she could about her chosen profession.
The Danvers lived in a luxurious town house on New York’s fashionable East Side,
but Julie soon found that the household was presided over by an evil genius in
the person of the housekeeper, Hetty Brown, who dominated everyone there,
including Alice and Roger Danver. Life in the Danver home would have been
unbearable for Julie had it not been for Leo Cross, Alice’s son by a previous
marriage. Leo Cross didn’t really look like a knight in shining armor, but in
Julie’s eyes he was even more than that. Only Leo dared to stand up to the formidable
Hetty. It was Leo who precipitated the storm that finally freed the Danvers of
Hetty’s morbid dominance, and it was Leo who helped with Julie’s frivolous
young sister presented a problem too big for Julie to handle alone.
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