A Suitcase Tale

<p>Marcia Gardinier is leaving Wyoming to begin nurses' training in Colorado. She is eager to escape an impoverished and chaotic home an unstable and juvenile mother and a distant but controlling father. Her small suitcase is light on clothes but filled with painful memories.</p><p>Much to her father's dismay Marcia has chosen to attend St. Joseph's a Catholic school of nursing in Denver. Her decision leaves her with no financial support from her father and a haphazard approach to paying for an education.</p><p>At St. Joseph's Marcia begins to form enduring friendships and to search for fulfillment of her heart's strongest hunger a true and lasting love. But the past both remote and near continues to bedevil her and may cause her to lose a young physician to whom she is attracted.</p><p>Written in the tradition of the classic romance novel this Suitcase Tale is a story of betrayal and striving against seemingly overwhelming obstacles; a story of healing hope and love.<br /></p>