No Job for a Woman (Hearts and Sails Book 2)

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She sailed against the current.

Despite completing her medical education, Ella Parker fails to secure a job as a physician’s assistant. When practicing midwifery, she oversteps her boundaries and risks arrest. Determined to practice medicine, she joins her mentor, Dr. Pesce, on the warship, Neptune. When Dr. Pesce suffers an injury, she steps up to the job of the ship surgeon.
Ella wants to fit in with the all-male crew, but she doesn’t know their ways. Her inexperience shows when she treats cases beyond her training. The seamen are unwelcoming and suspicious; some believe Ella to be a witch! Lieutenant Jack Wyse, though charged by the captain with protecting Ella, is keen on making her leave. Ailing Dr. Pesce, kind ship boy Tobby, and a silver-tongued chaplain Doolittle are her only friends. Humiliated by the cruel pranks and the ungratefulness, she is isolated and demoralized, exactly how Wyse wants her to feel.
After a fierce battle, Ella saves the handsome officer Robert Weston, who declares his love. Marrying him and transferring to his ship, the Crown, seems like a perfect solution, if not for leaving her friends. Ella must decide where she belongs before her future sails away from her.