Letters between two friends, one a student in Richmond, Virginia, and the other a soldier in Washington, D.C., chronicle their experiences during the Civil War, including their work as Union spies and their reliance on God.
Mary Jane Nealon chronicles her experiences as a nurse, recounting what she has learned about compassion and caring while helping others in remote areas, in the first AIDS ward in New York city, and while tending to her dying parents.
Oncology nurse Jacquelyn Wilkes finds herself drawn to the clinic's new doctor, Jonah Martin, despite his unconventional ways, but when she discovers a lump in her breast, she begins to question everything in her life and wonders if she can open her heart up to both Jonah's love and God's saving grace.
Chronicles the life and medical career of Florence Nightingale. Describes her childhood in England, her nursing experience in the Crimean War, and her postwar work as an author and hospital reformer.