Enjoying her job in Singapore, Sister Annabel Browne was disheartened to lose it through no fault of her own, but almost at once she was offered another job—Theater Sister in a brand new hospital at Malacca, not too far away on the coast.

It carried more responsibility and turned out to be fascinating—but so was her boss, Dr. Gabriel Christie! And it seemed to Annabel that she wasn't the only one attracted to Gabriel, since he was having an affair with his partner's beautiful wife…