Bøger af Perle Butcher Lyon

1960, Indonesia. The tropical paradise has suffered years of war, martial law and political upheaval which is soon to turn into economic depression and dictatorship. Nursing student Heidi West is so determined not to be offered up on a marital auction block by her mother that she accepts a post that no other student has been willing to take: a post as a surgeon's assistant off the coast of Java. The heat, the monsoons, the unrest and the isolation don't intimidate half as much as the man with whom she must live and work: The Dutch Doctor.

In 1936 the world was in turmoil; depression swept over the land stealing jobs and hope, and from Europe came rumblings of another war. Women had few choices: they could teach, nurse or marry, and none of these options brought a guarantee of a better life. Chances for success and for happiness were still in the iron grip of men

When the first Peace Corps teams are forced out of El Salvador in the late 1970s, they are followed by juntas, insurgents, Marines and a strong anti- American sentiment, and one nurse finds herself behind enemy lines, her safety and her life in the hands of a man who is everything she despises.