
Lilian Warren was born in London, England, UK. She worked as secretary, when at 19, her first magazine story was accepted. She married and moved to South Africa, where she continued writing. In the 1950s, she started to write to Rich & Cowan, and later to Mills & Boon, under various pseudonyms Rosalind Brett, Celine Conway, and Kathryn Blair. She passed away on 1961 in South Africa. Some of her books were published posthumuously.
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Susan had come to spend three months on the coast of Portugal as nurse-companion to a Portuguese noblewoman. Her patient gave her no trouble, but her brother - the imperious Visconde Eduardo de Corte Ribeiro - was a different proposition, and she fou...
Nurse Laurie Fielding's first assignment after completing her training was to go to the tropical island of Mondego and take charge of her sister's three-year-old son. But Laurie's sister, Stella, had made one curious provision: that when Laurie c...
~~~ First hardcover publication 1951 by Mills & Boon Nicky could cheerfully put up with boredom, pests and food difficulties at the plantation in West Africa where she went to stay with Helen and John Raynor. But she could not stand by and see J...
Steve Cortland was certainly a man of immense attraction but when he acquiesced in the sell-out of her father's plantation and then calmly announced that he would be the new general manager, Peg felt immune to all the attraction he could bring to...
When Fenella Harcourt travelled to Mozambique with her father, she made many surprising discoveries. But the most amazing of them all was the irresistibly charming, infuriatingly autocratic, Carlos Pereira who lived like an overlord in a palatial dwe...
~~~ first published in 1958 by Mills & Boon It was with great reluctance that Sarah Knight agreed to impersonate her sister Madalyn on a visit to a South African farm, but in the end she had to agree. All the same, her forebodings were soon justif...
~~~ first publication in 1961 by Mills & Boon When Catherine's husband was killed in a motor-racing accident, she and her young son were summoned to France to live with her domineering father-in-law, Leon Verender, who had never approved of hi...
From the moment Lindsey Gresham and Stuart Conlowe met, on board the ship that was taking them both to Cape Town, they felt attracted to each, other. And when Lindsey received a cable informing her of the death of the aunt to whom she was travelling ...
~~~~ first publication in 1961 by Mills & Boon Karen was young and vulnerable and very much in love with her new husband, and it was a shattering blow when she found, only a few days after the wedding, that he had only married her to further his o...
"I suppose Morocco is a better place than most for a plunge into the passionate unknown. It's a pity girls of your age have such a lack of judgment and knowledge. The Barbary moon plays tricks," said Andrew Barran scathingly to Carolyn, w...
~~~ first publication in 1962 by Mills & Boon as "The Affair in Tangier" "Provocative women left him cold, he had told Tess menacingly, but it was probably a half-truth. True coldness is indifference, and somehow you couldn't imagi...
Rennie Gaynor found Kent Bradfield's criticisms of the way she and her father ran their farm quite intolerable. It was true that they were rather poor and unused to South Africa, but Kent's assurance and good looks annoyed her. It was not...
~~~~ first published by Mills & Boon in 1959 To hop from Kensington to Nyasaland at a moment's notice was disturbing, but so intent was Lou Prentice on her mission, that she scarcely noticed the flight. Lou was to pick up her cousin's little boy, ...
~~~ first published in 1955 by Mills & Boon Julian Stanville, Chief Commissioner of a group of islands in the South Seas, was an ambitious schemer out to advance his career by marrying the Governor's daughter, or so Elizabeth and Amanda were t...
~~~ first published by Mills & Boon 1964 Could she allow herself to love him? Sue Preston was secretly engaged to Nigel Tevior -- secret until she knew she could marry into Nigel's old aristocratic family, and until she knew for certain that h...
~~~ first publication in 1950 by Mills & Boon Veronica was going home in defeat She'd come with such high hopes to Nigeria -- to help her brother, Stephen, through the last six months of his assignment there. Her presence in the small ma...
Susan had come to spend three months on the coast of Portugal as nurse-companion to a Portuguese noblewoman Dona Francesca. Her patient gave her no trouble, but her brother -- the imperious Visconde Eduardo de Corte Ribeiro -- was a different proposi...
~~~ first published by Mills & Boon in 1953 The Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia, where the primitive still exists alongside the ultra-modern, and fabulous natural beauty alongside industrialization, forms the background to the story of Morny Blake...
~~~ first publication in 1958 by Mills & Boon Kay found her situation incredible. She was marooned on an island in the Indian Ocean with two men of utterly different personalities. There was Jeff, handsome and lazy, who loved good times and never ...
The Senior Surgeon had to have a wife to accept a position at the Research Hospital in the Channel Isles. Josie accepted his proposal -- but, did he love her? *********************************** Mills & Boon ~~~ first publication 1963 Marry i...
~~~ first publication in 1952 by Mills & Boon At the age of twenty, Claire Wyndham went out to the lovely island of Santa Catarina. She was prepared to be enchanted by the beautiful island - but she was very far from prepared for the overwhelming ...
~~~~ first publication in 1956 by Mills & Boon Phil and her sister Justine in San Marco on the Portugues coast. Both sisters were to love the same man, Ricardo de Vallarez. Phil feels sure he will love her sister Justine, beautiful and a singer ...
~~~ first publication in 1950 by Mills & Boon Force of circumstance had obliged Sandra Cunningham to take a post as typist-companion to an elderly author, but her new life on the prosperous Tegwani Citrus Estate in South Africa turned out to be mo...
~~~ first published in 1962 by Mills & Boon ~~ also published in 1965 as "Doctor Weston" She might have realised, Tess Carlen thought bitterly, that when her stepmother invited her to spend the summer with her in Tangier, there would be s...
Jenny sat gazing out at the lagoon and thinking about Philip Brooke. He was a stranger. He had said that in a crowd they might not even notice each other, but Jenny knew better. Almost certainly that arrogant gaze of his would pass over Jenny Manson,...
~~~ first published in 1952 by Mills & Boon ~~ also published as "Plantation Doctor" in 1962 "You don't care for our doctor? Women never do. He's too careless of their emotions, too much the immovable bachelor." The do...
~~~ first published in 1952 by Mills & Boon as "The Fair Invader" Did she really want to be left alone. Lynden Russell was dismayed on her arrival in West Africa to discover that all the arrangements made for her had fallen through. Howeve...
Unexpectedly, Laurie Fielding was invited to the island of Mondego to look after the small son of her sister, Stella Alvares. But when she arrived Stella mysteriously denied any relationship between them, even calling her by the name of Laurie Bell. ...
~~~ first published in 1959 by Mills & Boon Gwen Crosland came to Mozamebique to help her uncle in his battle against his in-laws over his young son's future. She had not reckoned on conflict with the boy's godfather, the powerful Duque Re...
~~~~ first published 1957 by Mills & Boon ~~ also published by Harlequin as "Children's Nurse" How wonderful to be offered the opportunity of working in Portugal's Valley of Flowers! But on arrival Nurse Linda Grey, assigned to ...
~~~ first published by Mills & Boon 1957 as "Valley of Flowers" Portugal... It was a new thing for the Marquez de Filano to find his ideas criticiszed or his orders opposed, and himself occupying a place secondary in a woman's thoughts...