Nursing the Heart Romance Series by Margaret Tanner, V. McKevitt

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... moreCan 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? less

This is a sweet romance with Christian themes. Alice Cordell is done with isolation. After being shut away to nurse her dying father, she 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 realizes she's once again being forced into isolation, cut off from her new community of Kilbourne City, Wisconsin... moreThis is a sweet romance with Christian themes. Alice Cordell is done with isolation. After being shut away to nurse her dying father, she 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 realizes she's once again being forced into isolation, cut off from her new community of Kilbourne City, Wisconsin. No one could blame Niall MacKenzie for growling at the woman. After all he’d caught her staring into his home through a back window. Worse yet, only minutes later she told him she was his caretaker. He already hates most people in Kilbourne City, Wisconsin after the bitter lie the community accepts about him. Her insistence that he start doctoring those locals shouldn't endear her to him. . Soon he has a fragile nurse to both watch over and resist. A woman that calls to him more as a man than a doctor. 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. less