Anna Galloway has arrived on the sparsely populated North Beach Peninsula in Washington State to continue her career in nursing, but there is no hospital and the only doctor, Dr. Wesley Snow, is brusque and judgemental. Anna doubts she can stay, though she knows that this is the place where her skills are very much in need. But Anna doesn't just want to be needed, she wants to be loved. Peter Fielding, a young widower, needs her to mother his two children, but can he offer her love? It is Peter who introduces her to the wild, untamed land, but it is the brooding Dr. Snow who, though scorning A