Cherry has finally been discharged from the Army and is back to civilian life. What should she do next after her intense years of Army nursing? Dr. Joe finds her a job as the private nurse of a celebrated musician suffering from a dangerous heart condition. How can Cherry help him avoid the deadly stress his devoted sister unintentionally causes when she visits fortuneteller after fortuneteller? Will their family secret be revealed?

In order to become a flight nurse, Cherry Ames completes six weeks of intensive training that prepares her to fly in winged ambulances to every American battlefront on the globe. Her childhood mentor asks her to help an English family whose house had been bombed, killing the mother and leaving a small child to be cared for by her grandmother.

After the war, Jim Travers, a woodworker who has lost a leg and was the sole support of his elderly mother, is of critical assistance to Cherry as she tracks the mysterious thief who has robbed the Veteran's Center of a medicine that can help a small boy recover from a deadly disease.