
When Jerry arrived at her unknown guardian's farm in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains he was angry and taken aback too find that she was not, as he had assumed, a boy, and she very much resented his attitude. But in three months both of them ...
Toni was enchanted at the prospect of working in a hospital not far from Tokyo, though she was rather less enchanted with the difficult ophthalmic surgeon, Richard Lewis. But it all worked out for her in the end. The unusual setting of modern Japan r...
~~~ 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...
Matron, from the clinically efficient heights of Southern Cross Hospital, could only be described as scathing when she explained to Sister Maggie Chappy what was in store for her at the much smaller and more intimate establishment of Helping Hands, i...
He had left her penniless. After years of supporting his distant relatives, Uncle Enoch left them only small annuity -- hardly enough for Naomi's extravagant mother. It was a shock to Naomi and her mother when the fortune they expected to inheri...
Just as Paula had passed her nursing and midwifery finals, her fiance backed out of their engagement, and to try to recover from the blow she wanted to get away from everything. Accompanied by her loyal friend Rosalind, she joined the Tasmanian Touri...
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 published 1963 by Mills & Boon Everything seemed set fair for Christine. Now that she was proudly wearing her staff nurse's bonnet and badge, there was nothing to stand in the way of her marriage to medical doctor Robert Marston. Bu...
~~~ first published 1963 by Mills & Boon Dallas was afraid to let herself dream! Dallas Drew was the youngest and prettiest nurse at the hospital, and certainly the most inexperienced. Naturally, when the glamorous and popular Dr. Martin Loring...
Katherine was going to live in Tunisia because old Monsieur Edouard de Hallet, who had left her his estates there, had made it a condition in his will. But she had reckoned without the old man's disgruntled niece, Chantal, who could -- and did...
The recovery-room, where Nurse Rita Conway was supervisor, was the scene of much well-ordered post-surgical treatment. Rita was highly efficient but she won the respect and admiration of her patients through her ready sympathy and kindness, which she...
Florence Nightingale is Steven Ransome's nickname for shy student Nurse Maria Veretti. It is ironic that it is love for Steven himself that puts her nursing career in jeopardy - for he is a patient in the very hospital where she is training, and ...
When a car accident followed soon after an unhappy and embittering love-affair, fashion model Francesca Cornel felt thoroughly dispirited, and wanted only to get away from everything. The remotest place she could think of was Andorra, that charming, ...
Kay Mathieson had returned to her Caribbean island home after seven homesick years full of hope, hope which was swiftly dashed when she arrived to find poverty and decay everywhere, and the island dominated by the overbearing figure of Nick Coulson, ...
~~~ first published 1964 by Mills & Boon Was it really love... or just a holiday romance? When Jane Barclay joined the coach tour of romantic Italy, she wanted only escape. The last thing she expected to find was love. Yet she did--and how easi...
~~~ 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...
To meet Paul Vansini...handsome, wealthy and with all the charm of an Italian count...at the beginning of her first trip as social hostess on a luxury liner cruising to North Africa and the Canary Islands seemed too good to be true to Cristie Cumming...
Whether one of the many or one of the few, JOIS have somebody Asking for you: went the advertising jingle, JOIS standing for "Jobs Offered In Sydney", and for Bonnie Finch the attraction was that JOIS did not ask for applicants with special qualifica...
Nurse Nicky Conway already hated Dr. Peter Trenton, whom she considered responsible for her mother's death -- so that when he began to interfere with her plans for marrying Geoff Hutchinson, it was altogether too much to bear!...
Rosamund Peyton was looking forward immensely to her stay in Tunisia, where her stepfather was to work on an oil project in the desert, and when Rupert Harringford, the boss of the project, offered the two of them a temporary home in his house, in re...
Everyone regarded Doctor Richard Bray as beautiful Rosalind Howland's special property, so when he began to take an interest in her "kid sister," Francesca, no one was more surprised than the younger girl. But that was a situation that Rosa had no in...
Morocco. When Madeline Page realized that Victor Tourelle was not the hard, insensitive man he pretended to be, she fell in love with him - in spite of his guarded, disapproving manner. But hadn't he warned her that friendship between them was im...
Duty brought her home; would love keep her? It was a great sacrifice for Kate Ruthven to give up her job in London and return to her Irish lakeside home to care for an ailing father -- so it was particularly unfair when Basil, whom she had hoped t...
An unknown benefactor had sufficient faith in Anthea Benton's singing voice to pay for her training under the celebrated operatic conductor, Oscar Warrender. Anthea felt her dreams were coming true...but would she be tough enough to work unde...
~~~ first published 1965 by Mills & Boon ~ original title "A Woman Alone" "A woman travelling alone makes nothing but trouble." Captain Neil Macklin's firm opinion was reinforced when Miss Audrey Bracewell, from the Fairmead Nu...
If charm were all that mattered, there was really no contest. Warren Harper, a wealthy young Canadian, could win hands down over lain MacAllister, the impoverished laird of Crane Castle. But Cathie came to understand the dour laird's love for ...
Vivienne and Toby, nurse and doctor in a military hospital in British North Borneo, were both victims of broken romances and unwilling to become involved again. But they seemed fated to find their names linked - even though Avril Wade did her best to...
Joceline traveled to the Camargue in answer to her cousin Camilla's desperate letter. But upon arrival in that strange land dominated by the openly hostile St. Aune family, she was afraid to learn the reason behind her cousin's plea. And was...
Fenella knew that in spite of her love for the island, she had no claim on Heimra yet -- until an heir was born. These MacKails were so sure of themselves; they expected everything to come their way....
When Rose arranged to look after her aunt's small shop in a village in the South of France, she found it was necessary to get the permission of the seigneur Monsieur Saint-Guy before she could even trade -- and he sounded like a belted earl. It w...
Don Rafael de Domerique had a typical Spanish attitude towards the amount of freedom he thought women should have, while Vanessa's outlook was thoroughly Anglo-Saxon. This was all right--until Vanessa fell in love with Rafael. Hero: Rafael de ...
Glamorous Serena Smith vowed to never again become personally involved with a male employer - her blonde good looks had brought her more trouble than success - so she dyed her hair mouse-colour to make herself appear less glamorous. Then William Durb...
~~~ first published in 1951 by Mills & Boon The first time he saw Tess Bentley, Dave Patterson mistook her for a boy. When he found that she was, in fact, a nineteen-year-old girl, and that she was running, single-handed, a general store in the...
What a fascinating man Erik Norlund was, Jill thought. She couldn't be sure which facet of him came uppermost -- the smooth tycoon, or the more rugged characteristics of his Viking forebears. She got her chance to find out when Erik offered ...
~~~ originally published in 1966 by Mills & Boon Pat Brading went out to Africa partly to avoid getting entangled with a man who was already engaged. It was not long before the spell of Africa completely possessed her, Africa -- or the teak-hard...
Clancy Minnow and her manager, Johnny Raustmann, were very happy running the Brenda Downs ranch in Australia. When the trustees appointed a new manager, Clancy had to break the news to Johnny. But Johnny Raustmann had a way out of this -- for both of...
Philippa wondered if it were really possible for a heart to break. A few hours ago she would not have believed she could hear Lucas's words and yet wish them unsaid. Now there were too many things that made everything Lucas said impossible. To...
When Laidy had to abandon her nursing career she was grateful for the chance to help her Uncle Angus in his practice in the lovely Cheviot Hills, which she had known from her childhood. She was glad, too, to resume her old friendship with Felton Redp...
To sit at the Captain's Table on a big liner is an honour eagerly sought after, and often especially so, when the Captain is handsome, distinguished, and young for so important a command. But for Catherine Duncan the privilege was a source of ...
Here is the tender story of Nicholas Penryn, who lived as an embittered recluse in a remote part of Cornwall. Badly scarred, he could not believe that any woman could be other than repulsed by him - until his strange marriage to a young girl whose ge...
When her boyfriend, Jeff heartlessly let her down, Terese decided to go out to Australia and start afresh. She found a life and a job that were utterly different from anything she had known before -- but she discovered that she had by no means left e...
It was affection for the orphaned triplets that led Janet MacGregor to deceive the wealthy old Mr. MacNee and Morgan Mackay and took her across the world from Scotland to New Zealand. And then she was caught up in another charade--a fake engagemen...
Nicola Trenton was thrilled when her distant cousin George Westerfield invited her out to New Zealand to share in the local Centennial celebrations, but not so thrilled when Forbes Westerfield indicated that he would rather she didn't come. But sh...
WAS SHE ALWAYS TO BE OVERSHADOWED. Although blessed with the voice of an angel. Tessa Morley was exceedingly shy. Her outgoing twin sister, the beautiful bewitching Tania, seemed forever to be in the limelight. And now it looked as it Tania would ...
"The North Atlantic weather", the air stewardesses under training were told, "is harsh, unpredictable and sometimes of immeasurable force." And that, thought Patsy Aylmer, was no bad description of Captain Robert Prentice. Like all th...
Kate Warwick was abruptly brought back from Holiday to face bad news: her father's illness, and some unaccountable difficulties in the family business, a huge luxury store. Marcus Brent offered to help her pull through; but Kate, mistrustful a...
It is not an easy thing to back out of marriage at the last moment, but Laura Bennett knew she had done the right thing when she decided to break her engagement to Tony Marsh. So the trip she had planned to Lourenco Marques, where they were to have b...
The scar that marked Andrew Dalwin's face was a slight thing compared to the scar that a woman's fickleness had left on his heart and his feelings. How Trina Meriton overcame his suspicion and distrust and brought him back to happiness is tol...
"Just pretend that the man you wish to marry is standing before you," the designer instructed Anthea as she waited to model the wedding dress in the grand finale of his Spring Collection. But the man Anthea wished to marry was out there in...
The prejudice against woman doctors dies hard, and Lesley Leigh had to fight to get the job she wanted in Sir Charles Hope-Moncrieff's brilliant team. She was determined to succeed, but would her personal loyalties get in the way, just as Sir Charl...
Carol Tracey journeyed all the way to South Africa before she realized what a mistake she had made in becoming engaged to Laine Mulholland--a man she'd never even met. She simply could not marry him--but how was she going to extricate herself from su...
Domini had married Paul Stephanos to save her family from disgrace and exposure. Now she fought against the warm feelings she had for her husband because of the bitter knowledge that he had tricked and deceived her. When Barry Sothern, her old love, ...
~~~ first published 1967 by Mills & Boon Mia had journeyed out of the Seychelles Islands to search for the mother she had never known. But soon her quest began to be obscured by the even more urgent problem of what to do about her hopeless love fo...
~~~ 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...
When twenty-year-old Laura, after a careful, sheltered upbringing, was suddenly thrust into the turbulent household of the 'dark Trevaynes' she felt young and defenseless, and always overshadowed by her glamorous cousin Cleo. There had bee...
The glamorous, successful folk singer Sara Winchester was trying to make a fundamental decision -- whether or not to marry a charming, eminently suitable man who loved her deeply. But still she hesitated. Why? It was for a reason that took her back s...
~~~ first published 1967 by Mills & Boon ~ original title "Lament for a Lover" "You've wanted Morison's for some time, I believe, and now that there's a woman in charge you think it's going to be easy", Katrina to...
'I do not like thee, Doctor Fell; the reason why, I cannot tell'. Miranda Young could not help thinking of the old rhyme when she became assistant Casualty Officer to Doctor Jonathan Fell, for her first reaction to him was one of dislike. He seemed t...
Rea Glyn went to the coast for a quiet visit with no thought of marriage in her mind, but soon she found herself married to a man she had never met before and pledged to play her part in a fantastic game of "let's pretend." Burke bent ...
Not many girls would wish to steal their best friend's fiance, so when Faith found herself falling in love with Craig she fled to Hong Kong, where she began to forget her troubles in her new job in the home of the Portuguese Marques Jacinto de Ve...
Paula MacKinnon was a dedicated doctor, whose work and whose patients would always be more important to her than her private life. Jason Scott was a rich man's son, an admitted playboy, whose idea of work, when he bothered to work at all, was to ...
Lucy Granger and Paul Harlow had no doubt about their love for one another. But he was a millionaire business tycoon and she was a very ordinary working girl. Would their love really be strong enough to stand up to all the differences between them...
When Alison Dundas's sister Sherry decided that her acting career was more important to her than marriage, and forthwith called off her engagement, it was Alison who had the thankless task of breaking the news to Sherry's fiance. It was not a...
It was for the sake of that dear old lady, Mrs. Harnby, that Patricia agreed to the fantastic suggestion that she should masquerade for a few days as Michael Harnby's wife. How was she to know that the deception would spread wider and wider until...
Gina enjoyed every minute of her work with the orphans, and was quite convinced that the only way to deal successfully with children was through love. She thought the Superintendent, Miles Fairland, shared her views -- until Yasmin Winter came on the...
It annoyed Doctor Avery Chase to hear his cousin Robert denounce as a phoney the frightened young girl found late one night sitting on the doorstep of Chase, the family home on the edge of the Devon moors. But Robert was convinced that the girl wh...
When Julie got a job with an oil company in North Africa, she never dreamt that it would take her miles out into the Libyan desert. But even that was not such a challenge as working for the camp manager, Clay Whitman, who insisted that 'women and...
Fate had not dealt very kindly with Ginny Sorrel, but now at last she was on her way to a new and better life. Then it seemed fortune had sent her another blow, when the first person she met in her new home was the last man she had expected -- or ...
In ancient times, one of the twelve labours of Hercules was to go to 'Golden Apple Island', the garden of Hesperides -- better known to us today as the Canary Islands -- and bring back a "golden apple", or orange . In our own day, so ...
Anna Trent felt she owed her uncle and guardian a debt of gratitude, so when he asked her to chaperone his wilful daughter, Cecily de Manard, on a trip to the Continent, Anna had to agree. Only a little word, that 'yes' -- but what a lot o...
Things were not going too well for Chris Dawnay's father, and when the business man Boyd Wyatt promised her that if she would play the femme fatale with Clive Huston, there would almost certainly be a contract for her father in it, Chris did not ...
Rosamund was not at all happy about the prospect of having a film unit invading her beautiful home. She could imagine only too well the chaos that would ensue. But what she had not foreseen, was the upheaval it was to cause in her private life as wel...
Tracey Stanton had not seen her father since she was a baby, and the news that he had died and left her his ranch in Texas -- on condition that she went there to live for six months -- interested her not at all. Until a letter from an unpleasant stra...
~~~ first published 1963 by Mills & Boon Lauren did not foresee all the difficulties that would arise when she was persuaded to masquerade as Nick Natal's wife and profes sional dancing partner because his real wife Natalie was too ill to acco...
~~~~ 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 ...
"I -- I sensed something RUTHLESS about him. He moulds people to his tastes, and he makes them submit whether they want to or not," Lauri described Maxim di Corte to her aunt Pat when, as an inexperienced girl, Lauri first joined Maxim'...
"Don't start falling for Doctor Jan," the staff warned Sister Christina when she arrived to nurse at the North-Eastern Hospital, Plasdorp, near the Drakensberg. The story was that on the eve of his wedding his fiancee had run off with another man, an...
"I have left nothing behind. I and my heart are travelling together," Jane assured her neighbour on the plane that was flying them both to Ceylon. But she was soon to lose her heart -- and not only to that beautiful island, the Pearl of the I...
Antoinette Burney, a more than promising music student, was disappointed, unbelieving and furious when the famous concert pianist Lewis Freemont failed her in an exam, telling her forthrightly that she would never make the grade as a professional pia...
~~~ original publication in 1961 by Mills & Boon "To get a man really out of your system there's nothing like having an affair with someone else", Nick Brandis advised Vanessa when she told him of her broken engagement -- and she got t...
"I expected you to be a child." It was a brutal shock to Alexandra when after waiting five years to return to Malaysia she arrived to find that her father had been killed. Her situation wasn't helped by the fact that he'd left her...
He claimed to be a swagman, and he certainly looked like one -- but Mattie had not known him long before she realized that her feelings towards him were rather deeper than mere curiosity. But just what kind of man had she chosen to fall in love with?...
Rex Standford needed someone to help nurse his invalid mother, and when he learned that Dunoon Alexander was between jobs he offered her the post forthwith. Rex hadn't consulted his brother Jeff on the subject - but Jeff, as it turned out, had plenty...
Nurse Fiona Smith was determined to go on looking after her young nephew when he went to Australia to join his father, even though that gentleman had stipulated "no females!" So she pretended to be the new cook instead. Hoping that everything...
Shipwrecked on the remote Brazilian island of Janeleza, Morvenna found herself pitched into the situation that for one month -- until the next steamer came along -- she must accept the authority of the island's autocratic overlord, Roque de Bra...
Lucia didn't like and didn't trust her sister's boyfriend Nicholas Curzon from the first moment she met him -- and it was with much misgiving that she agreed to accompany the pair of them on a holiday to Greece. But as her distrust of Nicholas incre...
Annabel Lee had been brought up in an orphanage, but had always longed to be able to trace her father, and at last she decided to follow the few slender clues she had to her real identity. They led her to the most beautiful place in the world - where...
"Miss Page," Brent Mallory warned Vanessa when she applied for a job with him, "I don't think much of women in business. They're too prone to distraction, too often resentful of any kind of authority . . ." Vanessa was inde...
When Rachel Devon was left orphaned on a lonely Caribbean island, an inexperienced nineteen-year-old, she was rescued by Niall Herrick, captain of the yacht "Silver Dolphin." Niall thought he could solve her problems by taking her to Bermuda ...
~~~ first published 1968 by Mills & Boon Judith was determined to write up the fascinating ruined city of Bou Kairrouan, in Morocco, for her magazine. It was a pity that Martin Dahl, who could have been such a help, was so curiously hostile! H...
Laurie Weldon knew that Ryan Holt, the tough safari master, was dead set against taking women big-game hunting, but she got the better of him -- much to his annoyance -- by being accepted in the safari of a wealthy American which Ryan was leading. Sh...
"Piotr must have a mother". -- Carolyn Clarke, already devoted to the little half-Polish boy, found it impossible to resist the plea from a dying man. And so she became a stepmother, married a few hours before his death to a man she scarcely ...
She was going back to a memory... Two years ago Ailsa Mackay's plans had been vague. A job somewhere...the stimulus of work to obliterate all thoughts of Gavin Chisholm. Now her mother had fallen ill. The family needed her, so she was retur...
Fight as she might against her feelings for Rafael Rodriguez, Lorna had to admit them in the end. But the two of them were separated by barriers of nationality, language, and two completely different backgrounds. Lorna was in the position of havin...
~~~ originally published in 1962 Joanna had found that being the daughter of a world-famous celebrity can bring its problems; and when things got too much for her she decided to get away for a while. So she took a job as summer help on a Canadian ...
~~~ first published 1958 by Mills & Boon Pat Connington told herself it didn't matter what Pierre Larouche thought of her. It was odd, then, that his very presence made her more ill at ease than she had ever been in her whole life. Working for...
~~~ first published in 1963 by Mills & Boon From a lonely, windswept island in the Hebrides to a luxurious villa in the Mediterranean. For Kate Kelsey this meant the prospect of a life of luxury. But what about Jamie? Hero: Adam Maxwell Hero...
When Jane was put temporarily in charge of Rossiter Ward, the doctors thought she was too young and she set out to prove them wrong! Overnight Jane Scott's life changed dramatically. Yesterday she's been a staff nurse without worry, ambition ...
"In many respects the desert is like a woman. Anything might crop up in the desert, as in a relationship with a woman But a man can enjoy the desert without getting involved emotionally." Duane Hunter's words made it quite plain to Roslyn...
~~~ first published 1968 by Mills & Boon Most of us would jump at the chance to live on one of the beautiful islands of the South Pacific--but when her stepfather was offered a job there, Kate was not at all happy about the prospect. Was she r...
Doctor Ross Arncliff had warned Tessa very strongly that her friendship with Mike Shaw would bring her nothing but trouble. She understood better when she realized that it was Mike's brother who had caused the death of Dr. Arncliff's wife -- ...
Ann felt responsible for the fact that shy, plain Rosalie Banks had been badly hurt by Paul Mallison -- and she was determined to get her own back on him. She never stopped to think she might be playing with fire. Hero: Paul Mallison Heroine: Ann...
~~~ first published 1963 by Mills & Boon Emma Howard was summoned to France to visit the grandmother she had never seen. There she met Charles Rideau, and their story is told against the exciting backdrop of the Camargue, with its annual gatherin...
At their first meeting, Julian accused Sylvia of being a common little adventuress. He soon realized his mistake, and tried to make amends. But it was too late. The damage was done, and Sylvia's pride bitterly hurt. Would he ever be able to make her ...
~~~ first published in 1951 by Mills & Boon Adam Chantry no longer particularly desired a wife, but he needed a mistress for his home and a companion for his child. Miranda was young and alone in the world, and she wanted a home and protection, so...
~~~ 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...
~~~ first published 1968 by Mills & Boon Melanie had considered Wroxford Priory her home, until the arrival of the new heir. It soon became obvious that Sir Luke knew nothing about her being the ward of his late uncle, and it wasn't long befor...
When her play folded, Gail went down to Devon to stay with her brother, and to try to forget the actor who had been occupying most of her thoughts. Soon another man was on her mind--but in a very different way. Hero: Mark Rawdon Heroine: Gail Bra...
Robbie was the only family Hope possessed. Wherever her brother went she followed. Now, arriving in Venice in time to see him leaving on the Paris train with a woman, Hope realized she'd been keeping him from a life of his own. Well, she was in V...
~~~ first published 1968 by Mills & Boon It was a far cry from taking up the dress-designing career she had planned; to going back to Scotland to help out when her father's hotel ran into difficulties -- but Fenella would not have hesitated ha...
Tessa was looking forward to a holiday in Italy with her mother, but everything seemed to come crashing down about her ears when she learned that the plans were off, and instead she was to stay for six months with her father's old friend Nicholas...
Pat had been planning to spend her last summer before beginning her teaching career working in Italy, and she was bitterly disappointed when the arrangements had to be cancelled at the last minute, and she had to take another job, as companion to the...
They were an ill-assorted pair -- Stella Percy, cool, aloof lady of leisure, with every quality needed to live a life of luxurious elegance except money; and Matthew Armstrong, bluff, honest Yorkshire, who believed in calling a spade a spade, but had...
~~~ first published in 1957 by Mills & Boon Charles spoke aloud the vows which would make Linda his wife. But tragedy brooded over the quiet, flower-decked church. A tragedy he could not share with her. As Charles Blakeney spoke the vows that w...
Loraine had always been deeply interested in, and worked hard for, the family glass business, Lairge Chrystal, and it was a shock when, on her stepfather's death, she learned that it had been left, not to her, but to an unknown nephew, Ross Frere...
Lucia was immensely proud and flattered to be appointed manageress of Sydney's newest, most luxurious hotel -- but she wasn't nearly so happy about the numerous emotional problems that came with the job!...
~~~ first published 1968 by Mills & Boon The lovely Bay of Moonlight, in southern Portugal, was the perfect setting for romance. But Sarah was only too conscious that she could have feelings for no other man while Philip Saratola was around -- fee...
~~~ first published November 1968 by Mills & Boon Trudy resented Clive Rankin when he bought her old family home, but she could not resist his invitation to go back there as governess to his young niece. Then it began to look as if Trudy would be ...
~~~ first published 1957 by Mills & Boon The Doctor who saved Valerie's school-girl life and limbs was charming and gay. Seven years later, fame had turned him into an unapproachable, dignified surgeon. Despite Dr. Axel Anton's change...
Piers Garron took his unexpected inheritence of Normanhurst estate very seriously. He gave up his life in South Africa and returned to England, to take up the position of village squire which the old house had brought him. He would settle down, he de...
~~~ first published 1968 by Mills & Boon Of the two Landseer brothers, it was the younger, weaker one, Danny, who had all of Sue's sympathy - but it was his older brother Rolf who had far and away the more devastating effect on her! Hero:...
~~~ first publication 1951 Sara Mervyn was a rising young ballet star. The ballet with its hard work and discipline, its triumphs and disappointments, absorbed her whole life, leaving no time for love or marriage -- or so she thought. And so th...
Junior Surgical Officer required for small West African bush hospital, ninety miles from the nearest township with plagues, wild life and atrocious climate thrown in. Sylvia Phillips, a newly qualified surgeon applied for the job and got it, but was ...
Sanchia had willingly taken responsibility for the orphaned Rowland children--but that was before she realized that their uncle Tom Bartlett, in his turn, had apparently decided to take responsibility for her! And MILLS AND BOON back cover...........
Rosalind loved her stepbrother Rowland so much that, when he had indicated that she was wasting her time, she had left home. Now, after four years, she was back. Her feelings hadn't changed--but neither, it seemed, had Rowland's . . ....
Everyone on the tropical island of Ladrana thought that Laurel Shannon and Stephen Barrington should make a match of it -- everyone, that is, except Laurel -- and Stephen. Hero: Stephen Barrington Heroine: Laurel Shannon...
Kathie Somers had gone out to the Caribbean to inspect her inheritance - but did not reveal her true identity as she wanted to be loved for herself. But she was to find that her innocent deception was to have an opposite effect from that which she in...
On the very eve of Daryl's big chance in the world of singing, a professional visit she paid to a surgeon was fraught with great consequences. For Daryl it meant the end of singing for a year; for the widower Doctor Luke, it meant -- in the person...
~~~ first published 1956 Glamorous Rio De Janeiro, "The Wonderful City," is the sort of place where life is inevitably lived on a dramatic plane. And it provides an apt setting for this story of an impulsive marriage, its early difficultie...
~~~ original hardcover published by Mills & Boon 1954 Things were not going too well for Lesley Norton and her father on their tobacco farm in Africa, but they were saved at the last moment by the discovery of mineral deposits on their land. But t...
Stacey's summer season in Sorrento, working for Sunflair, would have been idyllic but for Mark Lawford, who kept an eye on the affairs there of Sunflair -- and also, it seemed, on Stacey's own private affairs. He really was insufferable, Stac...
Hazel arrived in Montreal at her Aunt Lucy’s invitation to find herself, unexpectedly, the heiress to a large fortune and a considerable amount of property. She soon acquired three new men in her life as well Paul Forsyth, her solicitor, domineerin...
Matilda was very young and defiant, and more than a little mixed-up emotionally. But she was not entirely devoid of sense - and when she got herself engaged to Justin Justice, whom she did not love and who she had no reason to suppose cared about her...
Lisa Farrel was at her wits' end, wondering how she could possibly raise the money to get her beloved brother out of serious trouble, when Brad Norton appeared on the scene, like an answer to a prayer. Within a few days of their meeting, he ha...
Venice was marvelous -- but somehow Diana's holiday there wasn't working out as planned. Torn between the resentment of her jealous Aunt Vera and her hopeless love for the aristocratic Mark del Moreno, Diana decided she would be better off at...
Eden loved Lafe, but Gale wanted him The two sisters were aptly named. Gale was wild, turbulent and demanding; Eden was the quiet one, gentle and kind. Gale found the money, power and luxury she wanted when she met wealthy, handsome and magneti...
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 published 1957 by Mills & Boon Wishes do not always come true Rose's handsome guardian, Sir Laurence Melville, was jilted at the altar. In love with him herself, Rose silently cheered, but then Sir Laurence immediately left Englan...
Although Faye Meryon was as English as they come, she had spent much of her life in Portugal; she had been educated there - and she was delighted, after an absence of years, to meet again her old school friend Estella Silveira, and to be invited to ...
~~~ first published in 1968 by Mills & Boon In his old age, the eccentric Nicholas Kendrick advertised for distant relatives with the intention of inviting them to spend prolonged periods at his home, Falcon's Keep. When Ginny answered the ...
Linda met Phillip Cooper-Lang in rather dramatic circumstances. They had existed for each other in a special kind of way. She had never expected to see him again -- but she was wrong. Only this time, he was accompanied by the glamorous Diane Delt...
An out-of-work actress, Samantha was not at all looking forward to a summer spent looking after her sister's unruly children; but she would have coped a lot better had it not been for the disapproving presence of Doctor Mark Elliott!...
~~~~ originally published Mills & Boon 1962 When Pat Fenley boarded the liner "Walhara" to take a young patient to Ceylon, she didn't expect to find that the patient would be in grave danger. Nor did she expect to find her unpleasant s...
Virginia Fergusson's love life was becoming more than a little chaotic-- so much so that she suddenly decided to run away, to a new city and a new life of her own. And that was before she met Nicholas Muir!...
The Savidges of Dragon Bay were as wild and savage as their name, bitter and totally unable to love. But Kara Stephanos did not realize this until after she had married Lucan Savidge.... Pryde sat in a wheelchair, yet he made it look like a thron...
No, Ann confided to her godmother, there was not the slightest possibility that she would fall in love with her new employer, Michael Falcon, the head of St. Cyprian’s Preparatory School. He was inconsiderate, unreasonable, dogmatic; he was also en...
Zoe and Diana, doing the Australian's traditional "Grand Tour" of Europe, had both fallen in love with Spain -- but Diana had fallen in love with Miguel as well, and when the time came to move on to London, Zoe had to go alone, leaving Di...
Grace felt that she could never forgive Ellis Ridley for his involvement in her beloved Douglas's death, but circumstances threw them into each other's company. She found that Ellis closely resembled Douglas, and soon painful emotions were aw...
Trudy was sure she could cope with the housekeeping job at Elsmore Station, but it was perfectly obvious that Scott Ballantyne -- surveying her silver-lacquered fingernails, her high-heeled shoes -- thought she couldn't! ...
Now that she had got over the death of her fiancee Alec, Veronica had come back to her Scottish home to pick up the threads again. But Alec's mother had always wanted her as a daughter-in-law, and Alec did have a younger brother. Hero: Alvaro ...
An absorbing romance with the magical background of West Africa. Flowers, spicy smells, a black ceiling painted with stars, blue mists in the forest, the thick, warm mysterious river and bright parakeets shrieking among the trees. To all this Tessa f...
Piers Garron took his unexpected inheritence of Normanhurst estate very seriously. He gave up his life in South Africa and returned to England, to take up the position of village squire which the old house had brought him. He would settle down, he de...
"I'll never dream again," vowed Sara when her first young romance faded. "Awakening is too painful." But mightn't she change her mind when she went to work for Mark Hepworth, far more disillusioned and embittered than herself? She could not deny ...
When Lyn Atholl's fiance abruptly broke their engagement only a month before the day fixed for their wedding, she felt that the shock had disrupted her whole life. She could not bear the thought of resuming her dearly-loved profession of nursing -- s...
Her heart chose to ignore her mind. The Burney household always bustled, what with a doctor father, three daughters, an aunt and one rather large dog. But life had never seemed hectic or confusing -- until Daniel Elliot came to town. Rachel, the elde...
Temple Lane had gone out to the Java Seas to marry her fiance, but all her plans fell through when she found someone else had taken her place. In her desperate endeavours to get away from the situation, she met the Dutchman Ryk van Helden -and prompt...
It was two years since Laurence de Windt had hurt and humiliated Debbie, and now she was home again she was still determined to avoid him. But as his small orphaned nephew needed her so much, wasn't this going to be rather difficult?...
~~~ first published 1962 by Mills & Boon Nick Was A Hard Man To Resist... Her mother's dying wish had been for Charlotte to finish her voice training, but now her newly discovered father wanted her to join him on Nicholas D'Avernon'...
---- first published in 1953 If I should meet thee, after long years, how should I greet thee? With silence and tears... It would be with silence and tears, Nurse Jane Calvert knew, that she greeted Stuart Hemmingway when he came as surgeon to...
What would be the emotions of a young girl reared in an orphanage who suddenly inherits a fortune? Amanda, for seventeen years the inmate of an institution, finds herself an heiress with cousins whose existence she never suspected. This is the story ...
After Jan Kelly had roamed the world photo-graphing its most exciting spots, she felt that she could cope with just about any situation. Then she met the forceful Nick Redfern, and the two of them were marooned on a tiny, deserted Pacific island. ...
Nicholas was a lot older than Penny, and before he asked her to marry him he had decided it would be a good idea if they separated for a year or two, to give Penny a chance to spread her wings before settling down. But was it such a good idea after a...
~~~ originally published in 1965 M&B When Carolyn Burne lost her fiancé to her beautiful younger sister Clare, she felt she had to get away from the scene of her unhappiness. It turned out to be a sensible move. She was lucky enough to get an i...
It was through young Michele that Alix first met the wealthy Parigi family -- but it was with his dominating older brother Leone that she was to have the stormiest relationship! ************************************** Mills & Boon Perhaps if Al...
It was a far cry from London to Crags' Height Barbara Mansfield found, when she came to work as companion to Miss Berresford, the mistress of the remote house in the Welsh mountains. But soon she found herself forgetting the past in the presence ...
It had been a dreadful shock to Caroline when her sister disappeared, leaving her baby with Caroline, but she vowed to herself she would do the best she could for the infant. So when the baby's uncle, Domenico Vicari, appeared, with an offer t...
Jan was just an ordinary girl, neither ravishingly pretty nor interestingly plain; she was also rather shy. So, when she captured a very distinguished and attractive husband, her family couldn't help wondering whether the marriage would be a succ...
When Elian's father sent him to the Isle of Man to buy the site for another of the Jolly Jack Jones Holiday Camps, he soon found himself involved in a lot more than business details. He was far more intersted in the curious family at Glencummal Farm ...
It was a far cry from an exclusive Finishing School to life with her father on a Game Reserve, and the Game Warden Grant Tyler, for one, was convinced that Julia would never manage the change. But Julia was determined to prove him wrong....
Their first meeting was accidental and very brief, but Lee could not forget him, and she hoped that somehow they would meet again. When that time came, it was totally unexpected, and even more hopeless than before, for now, Lee must pretend to be an...
After a series of unhappy setbacks, Peta found herself trying to cope, singlehandedly, with a stud farm in Tasmania -- the "Apple Isle". Her neighbour, Nat Trentham, could have been such a help -- if only he hadn't been so infuriating!...
Rachel was pleased to accept her sister's invitation to stay at the palatial chateau in Auvergne where she and her husband lived. But Rachel soon found the "holiday" turning into a battle of wits between herself and the aristocratic Berte...
Why do some women always manage to fall for a man who they know from the start can never be any good to them? Julie Kennedy, like most girls, had hero-worshipped the famous television singer Manuel Cortez from afar, but it had never entered her he...
"The ship is due to sail, " Ruiz said softly. Quite involuntarily, Leigh leaned her head back against his shoulder and his arm tightened around her, while they both watched the distance from the dock imperceptibly broadening, like a chasm ...
Nicola was looking forward to marrying violinist Brian when he came back from his tour of Canada. However Brian became ill and died suddenly. Months later Nicola had the opportunity to meet Brian's boss Julian a world famous conductor. Nicola fin...
Marika Vaughan was a little ashamed of feeling so happy. But for the first time in her life she had not been outshone by her glittering sisters. She, Marika, was the one who would go to Greece, the land of ancient gods and eternal summer if she a...
All the way out to Gillgong Station Kerry heard nothing but the praises of Tad Brewster -- 'good cove', 'decent feller', 'best boss this side of the North Pole'... But that wasn't at all the impression she got when she eve...
One short letter changed her life! After the death of her parents; Vivien was shocked to receive a formally worded note from the grandmother she had never known while her parents lived. It seemed that with their deaths the family quarrel was forgo...
Somewhere under all the planning and preparations Alison cherished a faint hope that her business-arrangement marriage with, Julian would turn into the kind of relationship she'd always dreamed of. But now, Rosalie was free again and Julian no...
If you wanted to become a doctor, as Priss Clandon knew from experience, the thing to do was to pass specified examinations. But what did you do if you wanted to become somebody's wife and the somebody didn't seem interested?...
~~~ first published 1964 by Mills & Boon Would her visit end in a lifetime stay? Lois Tarrant, a model for an exclusive London designer, flew to Madrid to deliver a trousseau to a wealthy Spanish bride, and intended returning to London the foll...
Everyone who knew Libby Mason hoped that she and Ian Blaney would make a match of it, and they were all quick to point out how misguided she would be to entertain any romantic ideas about the "outsider" Adam Roscoe. But wasn't it just pos...
Night Sister Williams was horrified when she found that a patient had left her a fortune; the more so because that patient's only son, Doctor Ivor Berwyn, would, she knew, have used the money to help found valuable clinic. The legal complexities were...
~~~ first published 1961 by Mills & Boon Henry Revoir was "Seigneur" of an island in the Indian Ocean. It was a place of fabulous beauty, but his position there was by no means an enviable one; for in spite of his generosity and his attem...
Muriel had to find a rich husband. It was as simple as that -- though Muriel hadn't thought much about it until her family situation made it necessary. So she chose Andrew Burke as the lucky man and zeroed in on her target. But Muriel soon ...
Kristy had traveled all the way out to Australia to meet her father, and it was bad enough to learn, on her arrival, that he had had a serious accident, without having her life taken over, it seemed, by the domineering Simon Hailes! Hero: Simon ...
Gina was having a hard enough struggle to make her way in the difficult world of show jumping, without having that insufferable Nick Scott interfering. Would these two strong-willed people ever manage to compromise? ...
~~~ first publication 1962 by Mills & Boon Holidaying in romantic Luxembourg after her engagement had been broken, Elizabeth soon cheered up when she met Gervase St. Vire -- and fell in love with him. But more than one person disapproved of her as...
The twelve young graduate nurses were waiting eagerly to hear what glamorous jobs were to be allotted to them under the Farflung Nursing Association of the Pacific Health Organisation. Would it be specialling a Rajay in Hyderabad, nursing on some dre...
Fiona loved her old Aunt Barbara, and loved looking after her. She loved Nick Shaw too - but Nick's lovely sister-in-law Lorraine was seeing to it that nothing came of that!...
Which man was for Tawny? Martin, with his roots deep in the past, or Johnny, who was ahead of tomorrow? In a tiny Cornish fishing village, she was to find her answer. ...
~~~ first published in 1954 by Mills & Boon When Lou and Nadine and Daphne went to spend six months on Nadine's farm in Mlemba, they intended to be self-sufficient. But the nearest farm was a bachelor set-up, and when men and women are nei...