Joan La Blanc: 5 books

ORDINARY ANGELS, the fourth and concluding novel in a series about young nurse Anna Donovan, begins with Anna's homecoming at the end of World War II. Though still caught up in recollections of her hospital-ship romance with Chaplain Mark Whitmore, she jumps into marriage to Dr. Jim Millett, to whom...

INNOCENCE OF ANGELS  is the first in a linked four-volume series of carefully researched and beautifully written historical romances about young nurse Anna Donovan's life before, during, and after World War Two.  The second volume, MINISTRY OF ANGELS, follows Anna to the Maine coast...

To World War Two battlefield casualties evacuated from bloody Pacific beachheads to the clean white beds of  hospital ships, the Navy nurses who care for them seem angels indeed. For young war widow Ensign Anna Donovan, however, the unrelenting stresses of this duty soon begin to chip away at...

MINISTRY OF ANGELS  is the second in a linked series of four carefully researched and beautifully written historical romances about young nurse Anna Donovan’s life before, during, and after World War Two. In October, 1943, after the loss of both her Navy officer husband and the...

AT 4 PM ON A HOLIDAY WEEKEND IN 1943, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s premier express departs Washington’s Union Station for a high-speed run to Penn Station in New York City. Among the 541 passengers in its sixteen coaches are a disillusioned war widow and a Navy submarine officer on route to an...