From back cover: For Amanda Verne her job as a surgeon in a Majorcan hospital offered an escape from the tragic ending of a love affair. Before long she found herself involved enough to forget the past. Whether the involvement lay in her deep interest in Luke Hallward, the surgeon in charge, or in Doctor Vicente, the aristocratic Spaniard, looking for a wife, she could not be sure. But the beautiful American millionairess founder of the hospital refused to tolerate the newcomer and intended to get rid of her by fair means or foul.