To Face the Sun
Frances Patton Statham
Assigned to the hospital ship Good Hope , Sunny found her work inspiring and challenging -- until Alex Ramsey, a British diplomat, arrived on board bloody, unconscious, and in need of tender care.
They tried so desperately to scorn each other -- the proud young nurse and the haughty, handsome nobleman -- little suspecting the hot, war-filled winds of the South Pacific would sweep them together yet again on a small, sun-soaked island called Guadalcanal.
There, amid the teeming explosions of war, their love flamed into an anguished blaze, battling the dread of an unpromised tomorrow....