Although she sets off to St Stephen's very reluctantly, injured nurse Thea Westering soon begins to warm to her temporary secretarial job on the orthopaedic ward - and to handsome registrar James Mayling, who shows more than merely professional interest in her. But can there ever have been a more ill-omened romance? For Thea is ardently pursued by a man from her past who seems quite desperate to marry her. And James is already engaged to lovely Sister Ruth Filey . . . .