
The itinerary of the magnificent ocean liner SS Regina read New York, Florida, the West Indies, South America. A trip of a lifetime for the passengers but not for personnel - especially in sick bay. To recover from a broken engagement, Nurse Lesley O...
~~~ first published 1966 by Mills & Boon ~ original title "Till the Tide Turns" ~~~ released in 1967 by Harlequin Romance as "Team Doctor" 'Even in these enlightened days of women's lib, the appointment of a woman doctor a...
~~~ first published 1962 by Mills & Boon When Staff Nurses Philippa Day and Brenda Lewis took a flat together, Brenda saw it as an opportunity to get to know the R.S.O., Hugh Rossing, better - but Hugh unfortunately only had eyes for Philippa. The...
'Pretty, blonde Jenny Hartley is so excited by the challenge of nursing in the remote Shetland Island - serving the medical needs of the tough oil men working on the offshore rig - that at first she is unaware of the romantic interest shown in her by...
Newly qualified nurse Judith Lidgate liked the idea of helping her father with his country practice. Her pleasure at being home became even stronger when she met his attractive partner Doctor Renton. Their present nurse, Heather Black was not quite...
'Little did the beautiful Tina Roberts suspect on arrival in Africa during the rainy season that within a month she would be married. Strangely, it was a marriage in name only to the dynamic and fascinating Dr. Mount. And what about their former part...
Dr. Diana Freeman arrives in Hong Kong to take up a post busy enough to help her to forget a broken romance with Clive Field, the theatrical designer. It does not seem that this will take long when she meets her new and demanding boss, Dr. Jonathan K...
~~~ first published 1958 by Mills & Boon ~ original title "If Love You Hold" To look at, Lennie was the two-feet-firmly-on-the-ground type. But her head was mostly in the clouds; so much so that she didn't always know what was happenin...
When Nurse Kate Linnell is sent on a quiet nursing job to recuperate from grief, she never guesses how eventful her life will be. The idyllic New Zealand home of her patient, Dolly Ward, seems like the perfect spot to get over the shock of her husban...
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 ...
When Nurse Sharon Lacey is asked to fill a vacancy at her hospital’s annex by the sea, she accepts, little suspecting that her car’s collision with that of Dr Neil Sandeman will be only the first of many encounters, not all of them as unpleasant....
~~~ first published 1962 by Mills & Boon Armed with the belief that an operating room should be a place of harmony and teamwork, Madeline Keys worked hard to this end. But with the inexplicable enmity of the surgery nurse and her own hopeless love...
'En route to a nursing post in a British Military Hospital in West Germany, Sophie Allendale literally falls at the feet of a tall, dark and handsome Army Medical Officer, Captain Robert Austin. Queen Alexandra's Nurse Sophie does not realize...
~~~ first published 1960 by Mills & Boon Catherine Manton was angry and hurt. She was also beautiful and efficient and her operating theatre was perfectly run. Why then, did the new RSO declare that he couldn't work with her -- even if it mean...
Ever since childhood Katy and Clare Reid had known exactly what they wanted out of life. Katy wanted to run a great hospital and Clare wanted a life of luxurious ease. They nursed together in a small Scottish hospital, but it was soon obvious that th...
Jan Fleming can hardly believe her luck when she is offered the job of nurse in a medical unit attached to a film company going on location to India. Things start to go wrong almost immediately when Jan’s good looks lead the press photographers to...
Trudy Forrest is reluctant to leave Midthorpe General Hospital, where her heart belongs to handsome Dr. Derek Larridine, to nurse her stepmother living on the glamorous Atlantic island of Tenerife. She soon finds the tropical paradise has its compens...
Even on the sunny holiday island of Majorca people are sometimes taken ill or have accidents; and it was for this reason that American millionairess Carole Van Moren had founded a hospital - that, and the fact that she was very interested in Luke Hal...
Nurse Tracey Lynne’s romance was over, but until she joined Robert Spencer-Thwait’s desert expedition she thought the scars would never heal. Then she found that it took all her strength simply to survive, let alone gain the respect of the fiery ...
~~~ first published 1963 by Mills & Boon ~ original title "That Nice Nurse Nevin" Chosen to act as duty nurse at the annual local Horse Show, Denise Nevin dreads the occasion. For she has to contend with seeing her beautiful childhood home...
Jill Wainwright leaves Melbourne temporarily for a special nursing assignment in the outback hospital at Flynn's Creek. On the train journey she meets Keith Jamieson, a handsome widower farmer with a small daughter, but little does Jill imagine how i...
One man loved her, and one man didn't. Linden Templar would have given anything to be safely in love with Peter, Peter who loved her and whose family was as warm as her own. But she had foolishly fallen in love with Randal Craig, dominating, weal...
Forced to resign from her nursing post at Queen Elizabeth Maternity Hospital because of her alleged association with a married man, Tammy leaves in disgrace. The only job available is in a holiday camp owned by friends of her mother. The scandal in h...
Sister Peters was delighted to be chosen, under the new exchange scheme, as the British representative to work in an Amsterdam hospital. It proved to be an interesting new life in more ways than one, and she found that emotional problems could be ju...
The night of the Christmas dance at St. Peter's is the most romantic date in the hospital's calendar. It is an ideal time for meeting new loves. making up withhold loves, settling scores. And for the har-working staff who have to stay on duty, like t...
After a plane crash in the tropical rain forest of Northern Australia, it was the task of air hostess Peg MacPhee and Dr. Bill Ransome to deliver the only other surviving passenger of a baby. The shared experience forged a link between Peg and Bill w...
When Gina gives up her promising nursing career, it is for a very good reason - to find out the truth about her beloved brother Jon's suicide. Suspicion makes her seek out Doctor Nicholas Wain, who is apparently involved, and she finds him more d...
Maxwell Perring was a surgeon with a special distinction about him; "star quality" it might have been called in another profession. Nurse Alma Miles admired his work, but had never thought about him as a man. All her thinking of that sort was...
'I'm your conscience,' Craig Warren tells Sister Laurel Dickinson. Laurel hates the sight of him - he is convinced that because of her love for his handsome doctor brother Kevin, she is trying to wreck his marriage. Yet when Kevin tells her he love...
Staff nurse Sharon Lindsay's crusading zeal lands her into trouble at St Mary's Hospital - and her sudden departure for a nursing post in the Arctic seems too much of a coincidience. Though she longs to prove her worth, Sharon is bewildered b...
When Nurse Toni Hammond travels halfway round the world to escape the pain of a broken love affair, she does not dream that a new heartbreak awaits her in Australia, the heartbreak of loving Doctor Grant Thompson. His unfriendliness and obvious conte...
Five years ago, Jocelyn had been a student nurse and hopelessly infatuated with Doctor Richard Sheridan. Now a fully-fledged QARANC Sister, and engaged to Surgeon Captain Hugh Montrose, she believes she can dismiss the memory of her former love. ...
On the surface, Margaret Tyler was a model, efficient nurse, dedicated to her job. But was that the real Margaret Tyler? And could it be that her intense dislike of Doctor Martin Rowe arose from the fact that he made her remember that she was a woman...
Sister Nicole Page may be forgiven for thinking that her life is running on oiled wheels. A splendid promotion ailed to the attention of the eligible Dr. Richard Gray, should have made her the happiest girl in the hospital. Why then, should she feel ...
Doctor Sarah Reagan was conscious of the fact that, tucked away in a small Derbyshire village as they were, it was essential that she and her fellow G.P., Michael Quinn, should get on -- yet she was aware that he had some kind of built-in prejudice a...
It seems too good to be true when Chloe Saunders finds herself swept off to New York as the private nurse of millionairess Sarah G. Lewin. A life of luxury, all the sights of the city - and a handsome cousin to escort her! But Chloe soon discovers pl...
Alex had always been fascinated by Australia and went out there from England to get a job as a nurse. There she met the autocratic boss of a logging camp, Grant Mitchell, who told her, "There's no padding around in this job, Miss Leighton...
When sisters Lydia and Janice Vane invited Giles Palmer to join their group practice Lydia was worried that he could prove dangerously attractive, but he was a good surgeon and would help to build up the practice the young women had taken over from t...
Sarah had worked with Hugo van Elven for a long time, and she was astounded when he suddenly proposed to her. Sarah Dunn and Hugo van Elven were married for the wrong reasons. Even if it was just a marriage of convenience. They were both recove...
When Helen Macleod is promoted to become Sister of Musgrave Ward at Lowhampton General, it helps to convince her that she has been right - she does not need a man to enjoy life. Her love is given to her family, her friends and her job. Why, then, sho...
~~~~ 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...
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...
When Alison Palmer joins the Premature Unit at St. Catherine’s she expects, and finds, plenty of opposition from the older staff towards a Sister who is both young and beautiful. But she is not prepared for the cynical hostility of the hospital hea...
---- first published in 1954 Janet Ferrier and Martin Everett had known each other years ago, before she qualified as a nurse and he as a doctor. Their friendship was just a faint, dream-like memory in her mind, certainly not a force powerful enou...
Nurse Lisa Mitchell does not approve of the new surgical registrar Adrian Fairfield but when is cast opposite her in the hospital drama groups latest production she begins to see him in a different light. Hero: Adrian Fairfield Heroine: Lisa Mitc...
~~~ first published 1964 by Mills & Boon ~ original title "The Voice of My Love" ~~ reissued by Harlequin May 1965 as "Doctor Vannard's Patients" Following a terrible accident, Philip Ancliffe becomes blind. Without illusions ...
'The Big White Chief' is his staff's nick-name for Doctor Eliot Gregson, Chief Administrator of Tai Winds Hospital, only a ferry-boat ride from the color and bustle of Hong Kong. His efficiency has turned the tiny island into a haven of peace - the p...
Nurse Theo Barnes had every reason to believe that her beloved Jeremy was on a plane posted missing in a West Indies hurricane, and so she leaps at the chance of a nursing job that will take her there to look for him. It is an impulse that she regret...
When Anna went back to the Princess Beatrice Hospital, more than ghosts from the past awaited her. Robe Delaney, the man who had broken her heart, had returned to haunt her- but was he the man who had sent her red roses? And if he hadn’t, who had?...
~~~ first published 1964 by Mills & Boon as 'Doctor David Advises' It is never pleasant to be jilted, and when Nurse Clare Butler’s fiance tells her brutally that he has never really loved her, she hides her heartache by taking a new job...
Pretty and popular Nurse Stephanie Mason was so good at her job that she is employed by the exclusive Bellamy Agency, and her latest assignment seems all that she could wish for. A job in a small community hospital in some of Australia's most beautif...
Hilary Talgarth sometimes wonders why she continues in her job as receptionist and secretary to the demanding Doctor Blake Kinross his abrasive ways shatter the peace of Tarnmere, her Lakeland Village home! It’s only when an old flame of Blake’s...
Claire Melville seems to have everything a girl could want �" a happy home, loving parents - and steady, faithful Martin. It takes all her determination to achieve her ambition to trains as a nurse at the Princess Beatrice Hospital, and when she do...
Abigail was a true 'Saturday's child'; she worked very hard for her living. And it looked as if she could expect to go on earning her own living, for no one seemed to be in any great hurry to marry her -- least of all Dominic van Wijke...
Nursing her invalid father forces Staff Nurse Coral Gilbey to divert her promising career at St. Cuthbert’s Hospital to temporary agency nursing. The strain of divided loyalties is just beginning to tell when she encounters Grant Miller -- not ...
~~~ first published 1966 by Mills & Boon When Dr. Sara Martindale moved from Yorkshire to Norfolk to assist her Uncle John in his country practice, she was beset with more than her share of problems while settling down to her new life. Dr. Jim Cro...
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 ...
Virginia's unhappy personal life drives her away from the gracious setting of Bath the wild Yorkshire moors... seeking a fulfilment that her art tutor's possessive love can never give her. A peaceful holiday at her aunt's cottage is interrupted by a ...
Being jilted by Dr. Adrian White leaves Storm Grayson without the heart to continue her nursing career. Then she is unexpectedly called to Western Canada to nurse her grandmother, who is recovering from a stroke. Storm flies off at once -- only to en...
Emma Hastings knew that she was an excellent Theatre Sister, and as such was admired and appreciated by the devastating Dutch surgeon Justin Teylingen. But liking and appreciation are not love, and there were' plenty of girls around with far m...
It is a new experience for staff nurse Jill Thompson to feel unsure of herself, so it comes as a nasty shock when she hears that Dr Guy Ferring, the head of St Mildred's Casualty Department, is demanding her transfer - well away from him! She resolve...
~~~ originally published in 1957 "The Rustle of Bamboo" ~~~ published October 1961 "White Doctor" Here is a hospital story with a difference, for it is set on a Burmese island where one white doctor and two nurses, with a native s...
The native drums throbbed in a sensuous, rhythmic chant, lulling Carol Baxter. She had come to Peru to work as a public-health nurse-and to escape the very memory of love. But here, on the banks of the mighty Amazon River, she worked side by side wit...
'I want all your trust and all your faith in me, and as I can't have either of those things I'm going away!’ When Nurse Sheelagh Landers discovers that her future as the wife of Doctor Michael Kelman is less important to him than his career, she is...
When the eminent surgeon, Sir Carlton Hunter, tells Sandie that love is the prize of gold, she doesn't believe him. She is too determined to win the gold medal awarded to St. Edmund's Hospital's best student nurse to care about losing he...
previously released as ----- The Path of the Moonfish Christie Cummings' maiden voyage as a hostess on board the liner Pallas Athene promises to be too good to be true. A cruise to North Africa, in the company of handsome, wealthy Count Paul...
Impulsive, eager to do well, but somehow frequently running into trouble, this is Kate Wilding when she starts her nursing career at Northleigh Hospital. One of her gaffes is to welcome the lofty consultant surgeon with shrieks of joy, for is he not ...
Mary Jane might have inherited a house and a comfortable income, but after all, she was twenty-two, a competent staff nurse, and she certainly had no need for a guardian -- especially the high-handed Fabian van der Blocq. But what could she do ab...
Sister Claire Tyndall is in charge of the entire Orthopedic Unit at Moorland’s Hospital, in the Fell Country. Her success as a nurse is undoubted -- but as a woman? Isn’t she, at the age of twenty-five, in danger of waking up to find that life ha...
Doctor Sally Preston's relationship with her new chief, Darien Marchmont, had got off to a decidedly sticky start. So, she was less than pleased to discover that their first assignment together was to be a two-man medical survey in the heart of t...
Rembrandt’s The Night Watch is one of the world’s great paintings, but after Adam and Jessica met in front of it, they had eyes for nothing but each other! It was love at first sight in the delightful city of Amsterdam. The fact that they were bo...
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...
From the moment she hears his contemptuous voice giving her orders and ruining the atmosphere of a hospital Christmas, Staff Nurse Margot Prince is prepared to dislike Dr. Paul Laker of St. Gentian’s. Not only does he insult her abilities as a nurs...
Joanna has been let down in love, and so has Simon Rivers - yet until the night he asks her to marry him, she has never thought of him as anything but her boss, an autocratic but efficient consultant at St Paul's Hospital. His 'rational' ...
When Leane Forrest loses confidence in her ability as a nurse, the offer of a job looking after Romaine Hart seems like the perfect solution; especially when it entails spending three months in Switzerland? At her interview, Doctor Adam Blake makes i...
Sister Charity Dawson loved her job but there was one problem. Like the other humble members of St. Simon's nursing staff, she had to put up with the arrogant Dr. Everard van Tijlen. When Charity apparently discovered that the distinguished docto...
Staff Nurse Jessica Brook has known and loved the brilliant young doctor for six years - ever since she started nursing at Hartlake Hospital. As well as being ambitious and dedicated, all the nurses agree that Clive Mortimer is an attractive devil. ...
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...
The death of a patient requires Laura to leave the hospital where she works. Thus it is found to have Thornsea in the service of Dr. Jon Warwick inscrible. The acceptance of this post also earned him the hostility of his colleagues. But Laura is not ...
When Nurse Lisa Hilton arrives at the Territorial Army camp and has to face Major Mike Curzon for the first time, she wishes she was tall, bony and very, very plain. My God! He says softly, on seeing her silver-blonde curls and baby-blue eyes. You're...
~~~ 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...
One terrible evening, Nurse Joanne Marshall hears that her medical student boyfriend, David Logan, is being wheeled into her ward - and is very ill indeed after a serious coach crash. Joanne tries and tries to nurse him back to health. But as the day...
Was Eliza kidding herself that she might stand a chance with the professor? Sister Eliza Proudfoot took a job at the special clinic run by Professor Christian van Duyl. She found him a somewhat intimidating character -- large in build and large in...
There were tears in her eyes when Nurse Carole Wilson said goodbye to Geoff, and to Australia. Did she really love him? And had she finally forgotten Stephen Carey, the Englishman who had left her for another woman all those months before? When s...
Straight after nursing school in Winnipeg, Nurse Janice Colby starts her first job at Nootak, only a hundred miles from the North Pole! She won’t feel too isolated, though, as her brother, Constable Raymond Colby of the Royal Canadian Mounted Poli...
The only reason Megan Lacey takes the job of Speech Therapist at Kingscroft Cottage Hospital is to avenge her cousin Caroline whose heart had been broken some months before, in the very same village, by a callous young local doctor. Determined to see...
Ruth Challis has become a ward sister at Hartlake Hospital exceptionally young. Dedicated to nursing, a good reason to guard her heart, she keeps every man at a safe distance, particularly the handsome consultant, Oliver Manning, whose reputation doe...
~~ originally published in 1968 Ever since she can remember, Staff Nurse Erica Ryall has worshipped the Senior Medical Registrar, Sandy Legrady, at Reidmouth Hospital in New Zealand’s beautiful South Island. Just as Sandy begins to take serio...
She though she could never forgive him... Six years ago, apprentice nurse Jan Fielding was wildly in love with Chris Garrett, newly qualified doctor. Until Chris as caught up in a mountain rescue accident involving her father and the results change...
Nurse Jill Sinclair is involved in a frightening car accident in which her pianist brother's left hand is damaged and the passenger in the other car receives appalling spinal injuries. The other driver happens to be Baron von Reimer, one of the world...
“The Princess Beatrice Hospital is one of the finest in London, in England and possibly, in the world. It is a privilege to train here.” So Nurse Jennifer Turner was told on the first day of an exciting new part of her life. But after the terrib...
Staff Nurse Coral Summers has a new job, on a Caribbean island! Yet on her very first day, one unlucky encounter puts it all in jeopardy. Compelled to take the blame for beautiful Sister Hart's carelessness, Coral falls foul of the arrogant surgeo...
As a reward for qualifying as an S.R.N., Nurse Tessa Maitland's parents pay for her to fly all the way to Santa Fe where her married sister lives. As well as having a wonderful holiday, the idea is that Tessa can keep a watchful eye on her sister, wh...
Serena had given up her job and gone to Holland in order -- as she thought -- to marry Laurens van Amstel who had proposed to her after a whirl-wind romance. So it was mortifying, to say the least, that soon after she arrived she began to realize ...
To exchange the bustling friendliness of a hospital for a quiet job in the country is a difficult decision for Nurse Emma Reade. But a lifelong family friend, Verity Conway, needs private nursing and Emma will combine the job with helping out in the ...
After a year’s parting, physiotherapist Deborah Wyndham is at last on her way out to Nigeria to join her fiancé John. But when they do finally meet, that special something seems to have gone out of their relationship. Is it a case of ‘out ...
Pip applied for the job of secretary to the famous surgeon simply because she desperately needed accommodation - and a flat was offered with the job. So when her autocratic employer proposes marriage she is astounded, particularly as her looks had al...
Rhona was disappointed, though not heartbroken, when her romance with Chris Wilson came to nothing. After all, she reasoned, if she had really loved him she would have given up her nursing career as he asked and gone out to South America with him. Al...
"But you don't even know me," she whispered hoarsely. "I will," he replied, silencing her protests with a kiss that left her trembling. He had to be mad, barging into her life, making his proposal so bluntly that it stunned her. ...
With three months to spare before her midwifery course, Nurse Caroline Hurst takes a private post. She likes nursing her patient, Fay Warner, who lives at beautiful Wycholme Manor, but is horrified when Fay’s cousin, Dr. Scott Sutcliffe, Wycholme�...
Who was the bride to be? Sister Maggy MacFergus was tall, and she discovered that most men found this off-putting. When Dr. Paul Doelsma offered Maggy a nursing job in Holland, she took it. There was something special about Dr. Doelsma, and it was...
Patti Parkin knew that nursing was all she really wanted. She had no intention of falling in love again - she had suffered more than enough pain and she had come to Hartlake Hospital to forget. She certainly had no time at all for Ivor Maynard, known...
Nurse Rennie Phillips grabs the opportunity of sailing round the world on the yacht Spindrift as nanny to the Carmichael family, the ideal way to cure a broken heart. But an emergency call at the South Sea island of Tavalei shatters her new-found ca...
When Kate had to give up her exacting nursing Sister's job because of ill-health, she felt she was very lucky to get a post as Matron in a private nursing home. But then she fell hopelessly in love with the Director, Simon, who was not free to ma...
From the moment pupil-midwife Sally Ashford encounters Matthew Tregonna, senior registrar at the Princess Beatrice Hospital, sparks fly. She thinks him supercilious and arrogant, and Matthew seems to delight in teasing her. Sally rapidly loses her no...
Her mother’s decision to remarry means that Nurse Melanie Lister has to leave home and find a flat. Having found a suitable one to share with two other nurses, she is disturbed to discover that Andrew Forbes, a house surgeon at the same hospital, a...
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...
DEAR NELL... Brooke Kirkland's understanding and compassion made her the perfect choice for handling the popular advice column "Tell Nell." Unfortunately, in her personal life, Brooke couldn't see half so clearly. Her glamorous stepsi...
Dreaming is Daisy Palmer’s besetting sin, and she knows she must resist the temptation to dream about handsome Dr. Gavin Fletcher. Too many of her fellow student nurses have already made the mistake of responding to the invitation to his roving eye...
Sue Gifford's new job as physiotherapist at a clinic for disabled children seems to clash too often with her boyfriend Keith's needs. Only recently has Sue been able to reveal her true feelings for Keith, who had been engaged to her glamorous cousin ...
It was when Nurse Harriet's Dutch friend Sieske invited Harriet home that Harriet caught up with a dream from her past -- the man she had always imagined herself marrying. But alas, she was not the only girl to have this dream where this particul...
Dr. Jason Benedict, consultant at the Princess Beatrice Hospital, is known as the Flame of Ireland because of his red-gold hair and fiery temper. He has a reputation for charming every nurse he meets, but it’s common knowledge that he has no time ...
Problems abound at St. Peter’s Hospital, especially for senior Nursing Officer Maggie Johnson. Seemingly outgoing and capable, she finds herself hard-pressed to cope with both the new �" and �" handsome �" hospital secretary, Graham Dixon as wel...
When Nurse Kate Norwich arrived in Australia to marry her fiance Trevor, she found him suffering from amnesia, and the wedding temporarily off, so she took a job as assistant to Doctor Rick Howleigh of the Flying Doctor Service to tide her over. But...
When consultant gynaecologist Eliot Kennedy comes to Westport General the staff find themselves under a new and autocratic rule. Sister Rachel Swift resolves not to allow the bad-tempered, overbearing Mr Kennedy to upset her patients, her staff or he...
Sara Lloyd was a brilliant doctor, but an unfortunate mishap had badly jolted her confidence and made her feel that her career was ruined. She felt she had to get away from everything, and try for the time being to forget she had ever been a doctor. ...
When Ward Sister Zena Foster falls in love with one of her patients, a wealthy young Arab businessman, she decides to work in a hospital in Kuwait for a years before deciding whether to accept his marriage proposal. Zena finds that Sami is wealthy b...
The budding relationship between young nurse Kate Murry and senior houseman Todd Morgan seems doomed to be blighted by misunderstanding. Todd is shattered when he picks up a note that Kate has dropped and read the words: Dearest. Kate…take pity on...
Nurse Georgina Rodman had met Professor Julius van den Berg Eyffert and his children when they were brought as casualties into her hospital, and the Professor arranged with Matron to have her "on loan" for a time to help with their convalesce...
Rosalind Mason, recently appointed theatre sister at the ENT block of the Princess Beatrice hospital, is determined to start her new job on the right footing. So it is unfortunate that on her first day she should clash so dramatically with Peregrine ...
While out riding, Sister Lara Groves rescues a man who has been badly injured in a fall from his horse. When he turns out to be Dr Peter Hartnell, the new consultant at the hospital where she works, Lara seizes every opportunity to see him. Then he i...
"He's tall and worried looking" And that exactly described Michael Lloyd, the hospital's newest doctor. Elizabeth made the neighborly gesture of helping him to get the vacant apartment next door to her own. It was then she notic...
When Sister Bridie Stewart leaves her Aberdeen home to join the London Head Office of Pan-European Oil as a company nurse her career enters a challenging new phase - much to her boyfriend Neil's disapproval. His fears seemed justified when Bridie is ...
Paula Garland is shattered after she fails her SRN because of a traumatic experience in her final year, so when she is given a second chance to sit her exams she resolves to put her past behind her. To her dismay she is transferred to a small country...
But she loved the man -- not the image Nursing a Grand Prix racing driver was really no different from nursing other private patients -- except when the driver was devastatingly handsome and the nurse was tender-hearted. But Linda knew her love...
“Not very efficient as a nurse, but as a woman I believe you will be satisfactory.” With these words the Hungarian surgeon Max Barrington confirms Staff Nurse Rosalyn Hayward’s opinion of him as a thoroughly hateful man. So when she is left a ...
To recover from the tensions and problems of her stressful job in Sydney, Nurse Sarah Pendlebury goes to the idyllic Ile Thérèse clinic on the Pacific island of New Caledonia. There, to her delight, she is selected as Receptionist Nurse. But tw...
When Arabella was involved in a road crash in Holland, it seemed providential that the first person to arrive on the scene should be Doctor Gideon van der Vorst. But as she came more and more involved with the doctor, she began to wonder if provid...
Young Sister Bryony Clemence and the new surgical registrar Grant Stirling rub each other up the wrong way whenever they meet - and they seem fated to meet often. Buy why, Bryony asks herself must she always fight with Grant when her inclinations are...
Sister Clare Summers accompanies the badly injured Gray Masterson to his home in France believing herself to be in love with him. So why, all of a sudden, should her mind be filled with niggling doubts �" her ability to cope for instance if the wors...
Sister Margaret Hay holds no brief at all for the darkly handsome and gifted surgeon Julian Freyton and has good reason to believe the feeling is mutual. So why on earth does she agree to go with him to Spain, to nurse his delightful small patient, F...
When Sister Rosemary Clare starts work as theater sister at the Birchwood Private Hospital she finds herself thrust unwillingly into the role of the proverbial new broom. In her battle to raise the standards of efficiency in the slackly-run theater s...
When Dr Sara Linford accepts a job in Gavin Morland's practice, she assures him there will be no personal complications. From the start Gavin makes it clear that he is a confirmed bachelor and she herself is dedicated to her career and has no desire ...
Ever since the new surgeon, Mark Castle, had there had been trouble for Staff Nurse Fiona. Glamorous , spiteful, house surgeon, Aurora Kane, did nothing to ease matters. Staff Nurse Fiona Graham is disappointed when Mark Castle is appointed new Su...
Nurse Olivia Paine, looking after her neurotic actress cousin in the South of France, is delighted when Dr. Morgan Beauclerc shows a special interest in her temperamental patient. The admiration of an attractive man is by far the best tonic for the l...
‘Spoiled rich brats are just not in my line,’ Dr. Marc Gerard tells Carla Younger, only daughter of one of Hong Kong’s richest men, at their first encounter. For Carla, the handsome doctor’s words strike uncomfortably close to the bone. How c...
It is a dream come true for Staff Nurse Meryl Summers when Dr Duncan Heyer tells her that he loves her. But as the green-eyed god of jealousy rears an ugly head the dream turns to nightmare. How was Meryl to know that jealousy had broken the only oth...
Sophy's relationship with the attractive Dutch surgeon Maximillan Oosterwelde was of the blow-hot-blow-cold variety -- but one thing was certain: in her heart, Sophy did not want any "blow cold" at all! Hero: Dr./Doctor Maximillan Oost...
Casualty Sister Dawn Campion is strangely reluctant to volunteer for the newly-formed Isle of Wight air-ambulance service. The dynamic Dr. Miles Stratton is in charge of setting up the service and after their disastrous first encounter Dawn has deter...
A six-month nursing contract in West Africa will give Kate Matthews just the time she needs to remove any doubts she has about her engagement to David, her childhood sweetheart. At first she is blissfully happy to be back in Ikawa where she spent th...
When Doctor Celia Derwent's brother and sister-in-law were killed she was glad to make a home for their orphaned daughter Fiona. Dr Celia Derwent didn't have time for men in her life. By day she worked full time in a clinic, by night she was ...
Nurse Phyllida Sims helplessly accident-prone since she began work on the ward at Hartlake Hospital, is known to her friends as a walking disaster area. So when she attracts the attention of dangerously handsome Dr Ross Harman the outcome seems inev...
"You? My new assistant? What sort of joke is this?" To Dr. Elyn Scott, it was no joke at all -- it was a cruel twist of fate. She had applied to the Khalifa Clinic in Egypt partly because of her ex-fiance's accusation that ambition had...
~~~ first published 1960 by Mills & Boon as "Doctor to the Isles of Nowhere" -- also released as "Doctor to the Isles" by Harlequin After three years on the beautiful Isles of Nowhere in the Indian Ocean, Dr. Helen French feels co...
Jill Bartlett, nurse on board the Greek cruise ship the Hellene, is well aware of the dangers of shipboard romances. But when she falls in love with Dr David Harcourt it is all too easy to ignore the warning signs. Surely her relationship with the h...
Sister Catherine Grainger knows that the Bellington District General Hospital is lucky to obtain the services of their new consultant in General Medicine, Johnie Kirkland. Only after his appointment does it become clear that they will have to dispen...
Mary Lou was a petite, attractive third-year nurse. She had loved Dr. Ewan Carloe since she first saw him in Fenner’s Hospital -- and Ewan loved her too. But now, when at last events gave them the opportunity to enjoy the happiness they longed for,...
When Nurse Emma Hilton becomes engaged to the famous actor Justin Falmer, she is resigned to giving up her nursing career. But she cannot entirely repress her doubt. Is she wasting her talents? Does she have a vocation in life that she is failing? An...
To Amanda Whalton the operating theatre is a secure haven where, however hard and exhausting the surgery might be, she is confidently relaxed. Elsewhere is different ... Love, for instance, has so far eluded her, until her ex-colleague Simon Ashby re...
Victoria was a pretty girl -- unless her three far prettier sisters were around as competition. And Alexander van Schuylen was clearly as impressed by her sister's beauty as any other man would be. So Victoria had better not take his atten...
The staff at St. Jude's agree that Mr. Blake Wendover is a wonderful man as well as a skilled surgeon. So when his eyes are damaged in an encounter with a patient in Casualty they are on tenterhooks lest he should lose his sight forever. Nurse Nuala ...
Sarah Barford gets the job as nurse on board the Arctic bound exploration trawler Ice Venture much against the wishes of the expedition leader Dr. Kurt Rothwell who wanted a male nurse. She assures him that she is well used to dealing with men in hos...
“Avoid throwing yourself at a man’s head �" it’s always a mistake”. From the moment the Residential Surgical Officer at St. Christopher’s utters these words, Nurse Tiffany Kane knows what it means to loathe and despise someone w...
"Don't warn me off the grass again!" Laurence Venables soon made it clear that Penelope needn't think he would take advantage of their working relationship. He was in love with his fiancee, and not at all interested in a mere nurse! P...
'Laurel, the Unflappable, they call me,' Staff Nurse Laurel Swann tells Bruce Tyson at their first encounter in the Accident and Emergency Department of the Riverdale Hospital. But soon she is forced to admit that there is a undercurrent of p...
It could have been very confusing to have two members of the staff at the Eye Clinic with the same name--John Harding; one a doctor, the other a surgeon. But Nurse Emma Brown at least had no difficulty in choosing between them. Hero: John Hardin...
Melody Cameron takes on a private nursing assignment near the beautiful Austrian city of Salzburg with little expectation of finding happiness after her tragic past in England. Then she meets Dr Dieter von Rheinhof, whose understanding does so much t...
Sister Hana Dean had left her post at a London teaching hospital because of an unhappy love affair. But when she clashes with surgeon Jake Carlyon at the Bridgestead Cottage Hospital, she refuses to contemplate returning to London. She has allo...
Mark Barlow coolly informed Nurse Gillian Grant that he never fell in love with nurses - they were more dangerous than female patients. The nerve of the man, suggesting that she was trying to attract his attention with a pretence of hostility! She is...
He needed her as a nurse, not a woman Benedict van Manfeld was one of the surliest, most unfriendly men Cassandra had ever met. But when she learned he was a brilliant Dutch surgeon who had severely damaged his sight in an accident, her attitude c...
Claire Brown’s vital work as sister on a renal unit has helped her to forget Dr David Duncan, the man she had loved five years earlier. Suddenly David reappears from the past -- a changed man. And when he becomes her patient, Claire is thrown int...
‘Every surgeon has is idiosyncrasies … some like a special suture material, some like special swabs. I need you. I hope that something will make you change your mind and stay in Venice,’ Dr. Pietro Bassano tells Nurse Theresa Callan. So it woul...
‘Stop antagonising Dr Alexandre,’ Student Nurse Anna Curtis is told. But is it Anna’s fault that her mere presence has such an adverse effect on the usually good-humoured senior surgical registrar? As for the effect that the attractive doctor h...
~~~ 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...
When Katy Lang failed her finals, the thought of continuing nursing at St Anne's was out of the question. Rescue was at hand when Resident Pediatrician Sean MacInnon offered her the opportunity to nurse one of his young asthmatic patients. But after ...
“I know exactly what the man must be like �" old, pompous, ugly and hidebound.” With these words Dr. Carla Scott is definitely tempting fate, for her new bos at the Boronia Women’s Hospital, senior obstetrician Lincoln Falconer, is none of th...
Young intern Sheila Devaney finds more than enough drama to be had each night in Casualty, without the added excitement of finding that her senior house surgeon Mark Leighton is the man she almost married five years earlier.... Neither has marrie...
Working on a vaccine to prevent malaria, Dr Maren Harvey is looking forward to a field trip into the highlands of Papua New Guinea, until she arrives and meets her guide, Dr Nicholas Calder. Though the antagonism between them is undeniable, Maren ref...
Nurse Claire Baxter jumps at the opportunity of spending a year in Paris looking after five year old Philipe who has a weak heart. But her patient's uncle, the brilliant heart surgeon Andre Dubois, is less than welcoming. And Claire is dismayed to fi...
QUITE BY CHANCE... Eleanor remembered the forceful Dutchman Fulk van Hensum from her childhood, and how she had disliked him. Now Eleanor was grown-up and a qualified nurse, and suddenly Fulk, an eminent consultant, was back in her life. He clear...
Bermuda sounds like paradise, and Staff Nurse Cora Jordan means to take full advantage of living and working in such a climate. But Dr. Darryl Delaney has other ideas about Cora’s suitability for the job . . . It was unfortunate that on her fir...
Kym Rutherford returns to nurse as St Alphage's after seven years absence to find that the old hospital had been replaced by a gleaming modern building. But nothing can demolish her memories as she finds when she meets up again with consultant Physic...
“I’ve heard the doctor in charge is a tyrant…” Nurse Bryony Sellers remarks to a handsome stranger who gives her a lift from the station to her new home. But soon after starting work at the Highfields Nursing Home in Cornwall she finds herse...
When Judith Henry arrives on the Hebridean isle of Skora to work as theatre nurse at the Jefferson Clinic, her antagonism is aroused by surgeon Brad Hamilton who warns her harshly that he is 'demanding, bloody-minded and a devil to work with.'...
Nicola Page would love to get the post as Staff Nurse at the Meadowlands Rehabilitation Center, but then she finds out that Simon Grey will be on the interviewing panel. Four years should have been long enough to get over her crush on an older, marri...
Emma Benedict is ambitious to be a really good nurse, a modern-day Florence Nightingale, but somehow all her efforts result in chaos. Being warned by Sister Meredith that she is a disruptive influence on the ward and if things don’t improve she wil...
Jean Muir's job as house surgeon in the Trauma Unit at Westhampton Royal was quite gruelling enough, even without the overbearing ways of her difficult new Chief, Alex Mackenzie -- and his disagreeable girl-friend Pauline was just the last stra...
Love on the rebound is definitely not for Nurse Orana Bowe. She had come to work at the Australian ski resort of Twin Valleys to escape from a broken heart, so she is determined not to fall for the first man she meets just because he resembles Dr. Ja...
Cherry Mills takes the job as Senior Staff Nurse on the Gynae ward at St. Monica’s so that she can be near Scott Nicholson. She had known him in London and now -- foolishly perhaps -- hopes to revive the feeling there had once been between them. Bu...
When the attractive Waldo van de Graaf rescued Olympia from a life of comparative drudgery and offered to marry her, it was to be a match of convenience. Olympia wanted to escape from her domineering aunt and Waldo needed someone to run his home and ...
Surgeon Commander Alexander Carlton Roscoe RN does absolutely nothing for her pulse or her blood pressure, Sister Kitty Martin insists. Yet why does the very thought of the dynamic surgeon, who is also a wounded war hero, make her heart beat faster? ...
Mr. James Jarvis, orthopaedic consultant at the Frantfield and District, is reputed to leave a trail of cast-off crutches, mended bones and broken hearts behind him. But Nurse Hester Stanton vows, he will not get away with ruining her sister's li...
Jane Pilgrim's appointment to Northingham Infirmary was her first as a full-fledged doctor. It was unfortunate that Doctor Potts who had hired her died before she could start. His successor, Doctor Richard Graves, was a dangerously attractive man...