To face the sun

the long version

They called her Sunny. She was a spirited Navy nurse with iridescent blond hair...the gently-bred daughter of a brigadier general...the graciously beautiful Amanda Fitzpatrick. Assigned to the hospital ship Good Hope, Sunny found her work inspiring and challenging -- until Alex Ramsey, a British diplomat, arrived on board bloody, unconscious, and in need of tender care. They tried so desperately to scorn each other -- the proud young nurse and the haughty, handsome nobleman -- little suspecting the hot, war-filled winds of the South Pacific would sweep them together yet again on a small, sun-soaked island called Guadalcanal. There, amid the teeming explosions of war, their love flamed into an anguished blaze, battling the dread of an unpromised tomorrow....