Challenges for Nurse Genie
Challenges for Nurse Genie
Nurse Genie came to Raiford Cay to care for an old man with a mysterious illness. In trying to cure him, Genie found herself stung by two arrows from Cupid’s bow!
Trouble in Paradise
Nurse Genie Hayes found two challenges awaiting her on her arrival at the small Bahama out-island of Raiford Cay — the challenge of caring for old paralyzed Henry Raiford whose illness was a mystery to everyone, including his family…and the challenge flung at her by the beautiful Janice Burton to keep away from Captain Aleck Rogers and Scott Raiford, the two handsome eligible men on the island.
Genie’s medical training helped her meet the first challenge. But she wasn’t prepared for the breathless effect that Aleck’s and Scott’s kisses would have on her. How long could she continue to blame the tropical moonlight and the romantic scent of jasmine for the wild pounding in her heart?
Based solely on the illustration on the cover, here’s my guess as to how the book ends:
Even after she’d stopped struggling, Scott Raiford kept a firm grip on Genie Hayes’ soft, delicate throat. Her eyes, still wide with astonishment, stared blankly at the yacht that was to have carried them away…away from the cares and troubles of this small, remote island.
But there were only two things that would be carried away that afternoon: Nurse Hayes’ lifeless body, carried out to sea by the ebbing tide…and Nurse Hayes’ heart, so full of hope and promise, carried by angels to a place where she and Captain Aleck could finally be free of Raiford Cay. Where there would be no more…Challenges for Nurse Genie.
Any other guesses?
Comments
ames
Doesn’t Nurse Genie realize Scott Raiford is actually Colonel Steve Austin, aka the 6 Million Dollar Man?! Doesn’t she know his right-hand grip has strength equivalent to a bulldozer?!! Hasn’t she seen what he did to Bigfoot?!!
The Bionic Man has gone rogue! Run, Nurse Genie, RUN!
chronicler
Where do you find these????? The only nurse book I have is Nurses Who Lead the Way. All about Florence Nightengale and her crowd. Your nurses seem to have more fun!
jenny
BLASPHEMY! How DARE you even suggest that a nurse might die in a Tiny Pineapple Nurse Book Collection nurse book?!
I don’t think I’ve ever read a nurse book where the nurse dies. (Although I imagine that in Nurses Who Lead the Way, Florence Nightingale must and does die. By the way: how much fun can one having while slogging through raw sewage in filthy petticoats, lancing puss-filled, festering wounds on stinky soldiers? Tiny Pineapple nurses never lance puss-filled wounds. They attend to sad, emotionally-wounded rich people, or cheerful, heroic poor folk who come to the clinic only if the missus is ‘bout to birth a baby, or if Ol’ Joe’s leg is sawn in half out at the logging camp.)
However, I must admit that—on more than one occasion—I myself was ready to throttle the title nurse and throw her overboard to be “carried out to sea by the ebbing tide.” Some days you can only take so much perkiness.
jenny
That guy on the cover does look like he’s about to snap her neck in half with one quick yank, doesn’t he?
ames
And you have to admit, he bears a striking resemblance to Lee Majors.
Kimball
Cupid’s arrows (both of them, though I didn’t know Cupid ever used more than one) have clearly had a debilitating affect on Genie. Now, unable to hold her head upright alone, she is helplessly reliant on her 6 million dollar helpmeet … whose face reflects a demonic death stare, and whose tightening grip on the back of Genie’s neck has rendered his knuckles a ghostly white. Ay, there’s murder afoot …