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  • Bibliography:
    103 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1941
  • Latest Book:
    July 2015
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Book List in Order: 103 titles



  • Could Kay open her heart to a second man when the first one still had the key to it? WAS SHE SOMEONE TO LOVE OR JUST A GOOD STORY? To forget a broken romance, Kay Wortham went to teach school in a small mountain community, never dreaming that s...



  • A man can combine marriage and career but when a woman tries to be wife, mother and career girl as well, she may lose everything she holds dear. And when strikingly beautiful Iris Collier pointed out maliciously that Merry's beloved Hugh was known...



  • River’s Edge was the sort of elegant Southern estate Kate Ryan’s father had always dreamed of owning, but as far as she was concerned, living there was like serving a sentence behind enemy lines. The Ryans were strangers in town, and the town did...



  • Marcy Lamont found that New York and show business was a frightening experience. So when she and her "troupe" decided to give it all up and move into her South Carolina mansion and convert it into an inn, she hoped that it would give her the opportun...



  • SIN WAS HER RACKET! Breaking up homes was all part of a day’s work for luscious, loose-living Lynne Barker -- but this was her biggest assignment! Leading Jim Randolph to the altar hadn’t been so hard -- but convincing him that the marriage wa...



  • Janelle Farnham’s parents had taught her to love and laugh and have fun, but at their death she was faced with the difficulties of earning a living. But soon the problems of supporting herself became secondary to the problems of love. She could no ...



  • A practical joke is never funny when you're on the wrong end, thought young Kerry Martens furiously. The rich and irresponsible Dud Waterman had caused her to lose her much-needed job because of it, and now what was she to do? Dud's apology for th...



  • As secretary to Paige Copeland, a brilliant lady real estate tycoon, Eileen Duggan was caught up in the whirl of excitement of Florida’s land boom in the glamorous millionaire’s playground -- Palm Beach. But when handsome Jonathan Blake came into...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    “Kate was a living temptation, a morsel of delight…” Her back to him, kneeling beside a big basket which she was filling with carefully dug roots, was Kate. She was beautiful, there was no question about it. Clay knew just what Matt meant, K...






  • It was a mystery why Jerry Malcolm -- handsome, gifted, dedicated -- had sacrificed an important medical career in the city for the hard, underpaid life of a country doctor. Malicious tongues whispered of scandal. And his friendships with the glamoro...



    • / General Fiction
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    The many faces of love. There were two things about her job that voluptuous Leona Hale liked; the most important was Gordon Crane, her boss. He was married, but Leona used all of her charms, all of the searing passion boiling in her full blown ...



  • Sally must take a vacation to recover from a near collapse brought on by her work and while her body recovers she finds herself falling in love. A Cockeyed Daydream or Love? A broken romance and a near collapse from her high-pressured public re...



  • City starlets turn Lessie Howell's barn into a summer theatre...and the mountain town of High Valley comes alive with love...and hate. LOVE OR RESPONSIBILITIES? Lessie Howell's heart was ablaze with love when she looked at her fiance, B...



  • Love and hatred confront a young nurse on her first private duty case. One would win out… “What’s the matter?” he asked. “Is Anne making passes at your young man?” “I don’t know what you mean,” Nurse Linette Stokes stammered. ...



  • Azalea Cottage with it’s quiet comfort and elegance was all Nurse Sinclair could have wished for -- if her patient had been as happy as she was beautiful… “You’re sound, Sally, very sound,” Dr. Garry Linton told her. Nurse Sinclair lau...



  • A broken heart sent Doctor Ruth away from the big city and into the arms of a man she didn't really love. Love Was Gone When David jilted Dr Ruth Prescott, her every dream and hope died. Her only thought was to escape the busy hospital and the...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Young Dr. Meredith Blake takes over her grandfather's practice in the small Georgian town of River Gap She is in love with her former patient, Hugh Prather, and wants to marry him, but not while she has to be a doctor 24-hours a day. When someone...



  • Reagan Hollingsworth’s announcement was a stunning declaration for lovely nurse Brooke Martin: “I’m going to marry you, so you may as well get used to the idea.”Such a proposal from the incredibly handsome and wealthy Reagan was enough to fla...



  • Original Title: Flight From Love Reagan Hollingsworth’s announcement was a stunning declaration for lovely nurse Brooke Martin: “I’m going to marry you, so you may as well get used to the idea.” Such a proposal from the incredibly handsome...






  • Original Title: Flight From Love Reagan Hollingsworth’s announcement was a stunning declaration for lovely nurse Brooke Martin: “I’m going to marry you, so you may as well get used to the idea.” Such a proposal from the incredibly handsome...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Love and hatred confront a young nurse on her first private duty case. One would win out... Linette Stokes finds the flames of her anger fanned by the situation surrounding her latest, most difficult patient, Peter Callaway, who is being blackmailed...





  • Pretty Polly Brundage, her R.N. diploma as crisply new as her uniform, finds both pleasant and unpleasant surprises when she comes to nurse in the lovely old Southern mansion she had known all her life… Polly Brundage’s nursing uniform was sti...



  • Doctor Stuart Marsden was too busy for love...until beautiful Hilary Westbrook, R.N. joined him in his uphill fight to better conditions for all the oldsters in the community. Then Doctor Marsden realized his efficient assistant was also a woman -- a...



  • Nothing could take Joyce away from her show business career. Or so she thought. But when the charm of a southern gentleman sent her whirling she wasn't sure which stage to land on. “You’re not wanted here.” Joyce Hilliard was well on ...



  • When Janelle Elliott's adopted parents died, her real father - whom she'd never met - suddenly appeared. A famous portrait painter, now married, he brought her into his own home. When he walked into her life, so did a lot of new and fascinating peopl...



  • In week Kelcy Foster was to be married to Cliff Akers; she had quit her job and bought her trousseau. But amidst the fever of wedding preparations came a shock so unbearable that she didn’t know how she could endure it. The wedding would be for the...



  • Nurse Julie’s job was her whole life. Could she risk losing it…to find herself as a woman? “I’m not going to ask you to marry me,” Ken said -- and Julie felt the words like a blow. For one awful moment she was speechless. Then her angr...



  • Outraged by what she felt to be a faulty diagnosis by the hospital’s most prominent doctor, Nurse Andrea Drake argued with him, defied him -- and lost her job! Because Andrea had grown up in an orphanage, she felt a special sympathy for the lone...






  • She found pride -- and romance -- in her work among the poor Nurse Andrea Drake had grown up without parents. An orphan, she felt a special sympathy for the lonely, the sick, the needy. Her work at a settlement house in the city's worst slum...



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    Nurse Hillary had to answer two major questions in her life: how long could she be useful as a nursing assistant in a plush senior citizens' club, where one of the irascible guests made her life miserable? And what was she to do about her love fo...



  • OUTSIDE THE LAW...

    Being a nurse, and a tremendously attractive woman besides, young Laura Weston found it ridiculously easy to make a conquest of Dr. Steven Prescott. From the first moment of intimacy in her apartment, he found himself slipping d...



  • Brooke Hildreth was young, beautiful, and wealthy. She had everything any woman would want -- but Brooke Hildreth became a widow one hour after her marriage to the man she loved. She tried to escape from her unhappy past and the dark secret she he...



  • A many sided triangle which threatened the young woman's hopes and challenged her ideals... Eve Harrison had learned to shoulder burdens well beyond those expected of a charming young woman. With her parents dead and her brother totally crippled ...



  • Nora Robinson was a young debutante, charming, pretty…and penniless. Her father’s death left her with over-burdening debts, a mother unable to face realities -- and a suitor who speedily disappeared when the money was gone. With no one to t...



  • Nurse Genie came to Raiford Cay to care for an old man with a mysterious illness. In trying to cure him, Genie found herself stung by two arrows from Cupid's bow! Trouble in paradise. Nurse Genie Hayes found two challenges awaiting her on...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    A TROUBLED PARADISE… To Genie Hays, sent to nurse its crippled owner, the tiny island called Raiford Cay looked like paradise. But the enchanted spot had its share of serpents. Janice Burton, Harry Raiford’s lovely ward, was consumed with j...



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    The professional road of a young doctor is a difficult one; therefore Clark Reid, who had just completed his internship at Mercy General Hospital in Atlanta, was resigned to postponing indefinitely marriage to Nurse Brooke Martin, with whom he had fa...



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    I never did hold with women doctors", but Dr Sara was doing a man's job and she was used to fighting masculine prejudice. She was determined to win over Blade and the few like him who scoffed at the "lady doctor". Were his words of love lies, too?...






  • DR. TALBOT’S CHALLENGE Young Doctor Dayne Talbot returned to her home town of Cane Creek to try and clear the name of her father who fifteen years before had been convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Dayne knew he had been innocent and she w...



  • MARRIED TO A JOB OR TO A HUSBAND? Did Robin O’Dell want only to be a successful career girl, married to her job instead of to a husband? She told herself “yes” and gave it all her attention, all her hopes, ambitions and dreams. But was it th...



  • Velma Durand had worked hard for her RN pin, then the big morals scandal broke. She had to fight back and earn a living the only way she knew how, in a world of men. Here is another scalpel-sharp novel that lays bare the professional and private live...



  • NOTICE! WANTED by Ann Galt, student nurse: A doctor to marry her and live on her family's island, where medical help was badly needed. WANTED by Dr. David Lochran, young resident: A life of dedicated service, with the right woman by h...



  • “I WONDER WHAT HAPPENS SOUTH OF WASHINGTON SQUARE?” That’s what vacation-bound Leota Foreman, pretty New York nurse, wanted to find out… Little did she guess how much intrigue and excitement were waiting for her in Poinsettia City, Flor...





  • Crossways was a luxurious hunting and fishing lodge in the Blue Ridge Mountains, owned and operated by Judge Bramblett. The judge, retired from the bench, was assisted by his two granddaughters: Cherry, a pretty redhead with a warm, outgoing personal...



  • After five months as a cruise nurse on the luxury liner Santa Theresa, Kathy was glad that the trip was almost over and that she soon would be back to the demanding atmosphere of a big city hospital. Suddenly, during a starless tropical night, a d...



  • NOTICE! WANTED by Ann Galt, student nurse: A doctor to marry her and live on her family's island, where medical help was badly needed. WANTED by Dr. David Lochran, young resident: A life of dedicated service, with the right woman by his side--i...



  • A nice place to visit. But live there? Never! That was Nurse Christine Mayberry’s first reaction to the little Florida town of Cypress Village. When she was offered a job in the clinic there, she shuddered -- and declined politely. Then Steve...






  • Drama in a mansion by the sea.... Julia Blake was not only a very good nurse and an extremely attractive young woman, but, most important, people trusted & confided in her. And so she knew: Why Joseph Smith, her patient and a promising violin...



  • The flurry of excitement that precedes a wedding brought two New York girls -- roommates -- to the small town of Hazelton. Linsay was to be maid of honor at her sister’s wedding, and Celia, a guest. In Hazelton, Celia, a not-too successful actre...



  • “THE OLDEST PROFESSION” My name is Gayle Barker. The less said about my youth the better. I learned the facts of life the hard way. My home town kicked me out. By the time I hit New York I was smarter. I know how to get along now...



  • “CALLING NURSE PRESCOTT! “CALLING NURSE PRESCOTT!” “CALLING NURSE PRESCOTT!” “CALLING NURSE PRESCOTT!” …The nurses in the Emergency Ward were always busy. And one of the busiest was Nurse Elaine Prescott. Two doctors called fo...



  • As Crimson Romance celebrates its first anniversary, we honor those pioneers who helped shape the direction of romance novels for all of us. Suspense, mystery, paranormal activity and love - always love - have been the cornerstone of the genre since ...





  • The newspaper read: STAR DISAPPEARS AFTER ROMANTIC FIASCO EXPOSED Hollywood -- The Eve Stacy-Rix Blake romance fell apart “live” on coast-to-coast TV last night. In an unexpected bit of audience participation, Blake’s wife rushed on stage and...



  • HE TOOK SUSAN TO HIS PRIVATE ISLAND... ...to be his private nurse. The old gentleman had only two weeks to live when Dr. Scott Murdock gave him a new wonder drug. Then it looked like he might pull through--and Dr. Scott and Nurse Susan began to find...



  • Crises at the hospital weren't new to Nurse Happy. Now, in her private life, she faced one she couldn't ignore--and her whole future depended on her decision. And so did the futures of Dr. Norman Hewatt, the handsome surgeon who loved her; Vernon Rus...



  • A pretty nurse finds herself involved in romantic as well as medical problems. Pretty student nurse Loyve Hamilton felt a warm sweetness in her heart when handsome, Reed Shelby quietly told her that being nice to her could easily become habit forming...



  • "SPECIAL DUTY WITH A MILLIONAIRE..." Nurse Betsy Moran's roommate moaned, "I'll never know how you managed to turn the heads of the two most eligible bachelors, on the staff, to say nothing of the town's most exciting playboy." Judy sighed deeply,...



  • Nurse Carol disliked the handsome country doctor -- was it possible that she was in love with him? “Must every woman fall at your feet, Doctor?” Nurse Carol broke away from the handsome young doctor’s embrace. She stared at him. What was ...



  • “CELIA’S THE KIND WHO DRIVES MEN CRAZY,” Nurse Jennie had been warned. Celia Chalmers was used to conquering men. And Jennie saw the look in her eyes when she met Johnnie Ottwell. It made her wonder if she had been foolish to postpone her...



  • He didn't know she was alive. Not really--though young Dr. Christopher Gunter always smiled at her and praised her as the best nurse in the hospital. But Lib kept hoping. Now it was too late. For Stephanie Morrow was back in town--beautiful, ...



  • Original Title: Sins of a Private Secretary...



  • Nurse Lindsay returned to the bayou to care for her invalid aunt, but mysterious intrigues and a handsome doctor were more than she bargained for. The Bayou House was full of dark shadows and Jennifer Mallory, its defiant owner, was determined to kee...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Hate was an evil mist… …around the bleak old house where Aunt Jennifer lived. Inside those walls she issued the ultimatums that made the whole bayou tremble. Nurse Lindsay had her hands full caring for the ungrateful old lady without interfer...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    "I'M ASKING FOR A DATE." The look in Taylor's eyes was warm and admiring. Nurse Luana laughed, feeling color rise in her face. "That sounds like fun, Taylor..." "Tay to my friends," he interrupted. And for som...



  • “She’s going to divorce me and name you correspondent!” When Nurse Joyce heard the ugly words from her patient’s husband, she thought he was joking -- she hardly knew him. But the doctor on the case soon convinced her that it was no joke a...



  • Could anyone be trusted? The pleasant young lawyer who warned her against the socialite playboy? The beautiful dissatisfied young wife? The grief-stricken parents? Or the handsome bachelor who was playing two games at once? Caring for a hands...



  • Julie hated what he stood for. Change to her beloved little mountain town. Change in the way she and her doctor mother conducted their small clinic for the people of the hills. Change in her fiancé, till now the most dependable thing in...



  • The Ghost of a First Love Sunset Acres, a retirement village on Florida’s Gulf Coast, offered nurse Martia Stapleton the ideal opportunity to immerse herself in her geriatric work and so wipe out the loneliness and heartbreak she had been suffer...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    The Ghost of a First Love Sunset Acres, a retirement village on Florida’s Gulf Coast, offered nurse Martia Stapleton the ideal opportunity to immerse herself in her geriatric work and so wipe out the loneliness and heartbreak she had been suffer...



  • As Crimson Romance celebrates its first anniversary, we honor those pioneers who helped shape the direction of romance novels for all of us. Suspense, mystery, paranormal activity and love - always love - have been the cornerstone of the genre since ...



  • There were two choices in Nurse Angela’s tropical paradise: A young doctor’s love or an exciting stranger’s need… Duty before love...that's what nurse Angela Dennard had always believed. She had come to Pirate's Cove because she wa...



  • Original Title: Passionate Lover...



  • She was Carey Winslow, New York's most popular young socialite. He was Ron Norris, charming playboy, on the inside track to Carey's heart. Then her father's fortune crashed, and in the flash of a headline Carey tumbled from the gossip columns to obsc...



  • Loving you always was the way they'd thought it would be. But ten days after they were married Tip was sent overseas, and soon tragedy struck -- he was reported dead in action. Now Gerry Parker, his beautiful young widow, is through with mourning; sh...



  • Jealous Husband Theirs had been a SECRET HONEYMOON but the romance was threatened for Cathy and Bill. When ex-Vietnam nurse Cathy met ex-serviceman Mark again, their reunion so enraged Bill that he returned to his rich aunt, her matchmaking, and t...





  • "SPECIAL DUTY WITH A MILLIONAIRE..." Nurse Betsy Moran's roommate moaned, "I'll never know how you managed to turn the heads of the two most eligible bachelors, on the staff, to say nothing of the town's most exciting playboy." Judy sighed deeply,...



  • DR. TALBOT’S CHALLENGE Young Doctor DAYNE TALBOT returned to her home town of Cane Creek to try and clear the name of her father who fifteen years before had been convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Dayne knew he had been innocent and she w...



  • A Vintage Romance from Peggy Gaddis, the queen of the romance novel. A young girl in doctor’s office soon learns the naked truth men, women … and passion!"We can't go on like this ... wanting each other so damnably..."His arms enfolded her as she...



  • It was after ten when she and Clem left the party ... He said, a trifle thickly, "Where to? I haven't any idea where you live. " Viola slid close to him and lifted her face until her lips were against his ear. She spoke straight from her wildly beati...



  • Innocent as she was, Cindy knew men .... Just a country girl, lovely and wild as the hills she was born and raised in, that was Cindy.  But Enoch, the boy who loved her with the pure, fierce love of a rushing mountain stream. Lorna, the woman wh...



  • Reach for Tomorrow is a story of a beautiful and disillusioned nurse who found excitement, challenge, and love aboard an ocean-going freighter.When Claire Frazier turned in her candy-striped probationer’s uniform for a pin that read “Registered N...



  • True love never goes out of style. Enjoy some classic romances from years gone by in this special digital collection of ten novels from beloved author Peggy Gaddis. Includes Loving You Always, The Girl Next Door, Enchanted Spring, Return to Love, Car...



  • Enjoy the high drama and passion of romance's roots with Crimson Romance's three classic tales from one of the genre's pioneers. These heroines prove that strong, smart, and satisfying women always stand the test of time:No Nice Girl: Phyllis Gordon ...



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    Julie hated what he stood for. Change to her beloved little mountain town. Change in the way she and her doctor mother conducted their small clinic for the people of the hills. Change in her fiancé, till now the most dependable thing in Nur...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    As Crimson Romance celebrates its first anniversary, we honor those pioneers who helped shape the direction of romance novels for all of us. Suspense, mystery, paranormal activity and love - always love - have been the cornerstone of the genre since ...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Tongues Were Wagging All Over Town Alicia Stevenson had done it again. Her gossipy innuendo had set people wondering if Megan’s moonlit meeting with Tom was more than a chance encounter. Now Meg had “talk” to add to her difficulties in manag...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Celia Judson lived a constantly exciting life. Her work as assistant to a dealer in rare objects took her to many exotic places and enabled her to meet the wealthiest and most influential people in the country. Celia Judson was in love…and engag...



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    A One-Hour Marriage! Brooke Hildreth was young, beautiful and wealthy. She had everything any woman could want...but Brooke became a widow one hour after her marriage to the man she loved. Trying to escape from her unhappy past and the dark secre...



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    Until her wonderful chance encounter with handsome Tom Fallon, Megan's future had been all arranged. When her childhood sweetheart, Larry, had a job which could support two, it came almost too late. For Megan seemed to have fallen under Tom's spell a...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Nurse Melinda Bonner once hotly declared to her supervisor that she had enough love for all children -- inside the hospital and out. But one shy, dark little boy -- an orphan, with only a stern guardian for a family -- had a special place in her aff...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Their island paradise in the Florida Keys was the perfect setting for the two beautiful Bentley sisters…perfect for forgetting their bitter disappointments. They had come to this quiet, uninhabited island as a cure for the deep personal injury both...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    MARRIED TO A JOB OR TO A HUSBAND? Did Robin O'Dell want only to be a successful career girl, married to her job instead of to a husband? She told herself “yes” and gave it all her attention, all her hopes, ambitions and dreams. But was it ...



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    Karen was innocent, beautiful and had her choice of men. But very soon her gay, exciting life came down to some sordid facts; she was caught in a web of love and lust from which she could not escape. Her only hope was for a real man, a true man...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Patients Usually Fall in Love with Their Doctors. The tiny fishing village of Fisher’s Island was ruled with an iron hand by Blade Morrisey who “didn’t hold with women doctors.” But the islanders needed a doctor desperately. Sara’s wa...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peggy Gaddis has published 103 books.

Peggy Gaddis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Retro Romance, was published in July 2015.

The first book by Peggy Gaddis, Love at Second Sight, was published in January 1941.

No. Peggy Gaddis does not write books in series.