An American Nurse in Paris

Best Indies of 2025 in Historical Fiction selection by Kirkus Reviews
Silver Medal 2025 CIPA EVVY Awards, Historical Fiction
Foreword Indies 2023 Book Awards Bronze Winner, War and Military.
Finalist: 2024 Eric Hoffer Awards, Historical Fiction, Debut Novel.
Finalist: 2024 International Book Awards, Best New Fiction.
Finalist: 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards, Historical Fiction
Finalist: 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards, Military Fiction.
Finalist: 2025 Colorado Author's League Awards, Historical Fiction.
Distinguished Favorite: 2015 Independent Press Awards, Historical Fiction


“Rousing historical fiction with a feminist bent.” GET IT. Kirkus Reviews STAR AWARD
“…the rousing historical novel An American Nurse in Paris focuses on a resilient woman who witnesses the anguish of World War I.” Clarion Reviews



Medical journalist Alice Simmons has one last chance to stay alive in this story of courage, humility, determination, compassion, and hope during the last year of World War One.

Alice’s quest to become a war correspondent careens headlong into a wall of sexism and deceit after her arrival in Paris in 1918. The suave officer in charge of the American Army press office refuses to let Alice leave Paris while her male counterparts scramble to the Front during the German spring offensive. One evening, his misogyny escalates to a drunken assault. Alice manages to fight back, but then her attacker begins a campaign of false accusations to cover his crime.

A nursing position in an American Red Cross military hospital is Alice’s only hope to remain in France. It turns into the best scoop of her career. Wounded marines and soldiers from the Battle of Belleau Wood flood her ward. A tragic death amid the human wreckage of war unlocks Alice’s compassion and her capacity to love, both long-buried after a childhood tragedy. Her patients’ courage inspires Alice’s fight to restore her honor. Their plight and compassion open her heart.