Little does Nurse Cherry realize when distinguished Sir Ian Barclay is rushed by
his nephew Lloyd to Hilton Hospital that her newest case will carry her north to
misty, sea-beaten Balfour Island, off the rugged coast of wind-swept
Newfoundland. "Sudden hemorrhage of a peptic ulcer," Dr. Joe Fortune had quickly
diagnosed, and Cherry is assigned to care for the truculent but endearing old
Scotsman. Cherry soon suspects that more than illness is worrying the peppery
owner of the Balfour Iron Mines, and her suspicions only deepen upon their
arrival at Barclay House on Balfour Island.
True, there is trouble at the mines. But the mysterious actions