The regular nurse on the cruise ship Ocean Queen was hospitalized only the night before the liner was scheduled to sail. So Laura Fraser, who had been working as a private duty nurse in one of New York's large East Side hospitals, suddenly has the opportunity to substitute for the injured nurse and have a fifteen-day semi-vacation in the sun. But accidents, illnesses and melodrama soon changed the fairy tale . . .
William Edward Daniel Ross, W. E. Daniel "Dan" Ross (born 1912) is a bestselling Canadian novelist from Saint John, New Brunswick who wrote over 300 books in a variety of genres and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Rose Dana, Jan Daniels, Ross Olin, Diane Randall, Clarissa Ross, Leslie Ames, Ruth Dorset, Ann Gilmer, Jane Rossiter, Dan Ross, Dana Ross, Marilyn Ross, Dan Roberts, and W.E.D. Ross. As Marilyn Ross he wrote popular Gothic fiction including a series of novels about the vampire Barnabas Collins based on the American TV series Dark Shadows (1966-71).