Valentine — Multiple Authors

Family duty had torn Kezia Page from the man she adored. Could she ever forget him -- even for a new and happier love? If only Kezia Page could have gone to Jamaica with Gordo Wright as they'd planned! Instead, the tall, beautiful Kezia had be...

Intrigue in surgery. Head nurse Lena Mitchell could be proud of her staff, except for one member -- a sister who was robbing her of happiness... Lena's life changed when her younger sister Jan came to work for her at Middleboro General. Jan wa...

The price of love. Pretty Cecily Brown knew that life was passing her by. Although she knew that she was too young to be so discouraged, it seemed that she was locked in her secretary's chair, watching others have all the fun...while she was forc...

After accompanying a patient from Chicago to the astronauts' center in Houston, Nurse Elsa Hoyt was persuaded to sign on at Port Haven Hospital and to stay in the Southwest. Then she discovered that the chief of staff was the stepfather who had b...

Haunted Bride... Eunice Porter hadn't heard the sinister legend of the brides of Hendon House when she agreed to marry Peter Hendon. Not that it would have changed her mind. It was to be a marriage in name only -- a marriage of convenience. F...

Liberate woman.. The great god Dr. Tony Jansen had spoken. You did things his way - or forget it. Well, Mimi Kramer told herself, if that was the way he wanted it, he was going to be disappointed. She hadn't given up a promising career in ballet,...

Was it to be the handsome extrovert or the “unlovable” loner? She could not choose...until her heart taught her its lesson... Robin Fairchild had waited years to become a reporter, she couldn’t give up her new career, not even for Bill Corco...

Young Kathie Vincent, assistant nurse in the hospital of Noonday, arrived to find the place very different from her imaginings. Noonday Lake, in the outposts of Canada, yet near a great airbase, was a melting pot of humanity. Here, in the small h...

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

Kathy Hogan was top assistant to the brilliant surgeon, Gregory Martin. He respected her professionally -- but could he love her as a woman? St. Paul's Hospital Nurse Kathy Hogan was an operating room nurse at large, modern St. Paul's. She...

The same day Laura Brown found two strangers hiding on a deserted island in the middle of Talisman Lake, she found her sister Jenny hiding in her lakeside cabin. Blond, achingly-beautiful Jenny who had moved out three years ago, chasing excitement an...

She had to choose between an old love and a new. Occasionally sad, more often humorous, here is the high-spirited story of Sara, a young nurse working in a busy Paris hospital. She had gone abroad to forget her past unhappiness, a broken engagement b...

Indecision… Someone once described Paula Dane’s blond, gray-eyed prettiness as “wholesome.” She didn’t like that but had to admit it was probably true. She was sensible, too, engaged to Fred Gaynor, an ambitious young real estate agent ...

"Hold on to your pipe, Dad. Today I met the man I'm going to marry." That was Susan Blair's greeting to her father, whom she hadn't seen in months. But while Susan plotted how to get Dr. Neil Wesley to take her more seriously -- a...

• 1968
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Change of Fortune Jenny Lacy and her brother Jeff never worried about money. Why should they? They owned a gold mine in Alaska. Then the telegram came -- MANDATORY YOU RETURN. FINANCES IN CHAOS -- and they learned the mine was turning out more deb...

Masquerade... When she changed her name and took a job in San Francisco to get away from fortune hunters, Lane Kincaid never dreamed she might meet and fall in love with a man who would hesitate to marry her because she was rich. But Ken Everett, ...

Could the brilliant surgeon she loved love her? Gran had said it herself: "Life isn't going to be easy for you, Natalie. You feel things too deeply. You're liable to be hurt, my dear." Then Gran died, and Natalie was alone...alone wit...

The inspiring story of a dedicated woman doctor who falls in love with the "wrong" man... CHINATOWN NURSE Her fiance, Henry Clifford, a rising young lawyer, couldn't understand why Dr. Mary Spencer chose to live in Chinatown. He...

When Diane Larson moved into the lavish apartment of her mother's wealthy friend, she was awed by her new life. Diane was used to working as a salesgirl and living on her modest salary. A whole new circle of friends awaited Diane, a new stepsister, a...

Maybe her kid brother was right, maybe April Bonner was a jinx. From her first day on the hospital staff as a full-fledged nurse, things began to happen. A mob rioted outside. A knife-waving fanatic invaded Emergency and seized April as a hostage. A ...

Troubled awakening... It was a shock to wake up not knowing who she was or where she was. It was an even greater shock to learn that the identity she was trying so desperately to rediscover was not her own. She was not Gloria Hallett, and this was...

Had Patsy found a new and exciting career for herself only to lose the boy she was engaged to? A fascinating tale of how a seventeen-year old reaches the threshold of maturity through her first job as a production secretary. Act I, Scene I... W...

Thousands of miles away from home, in the ruins of an ancient civilization, she found something much more precious than gold. Past and Present… If the hardships of traveling as a secretary with an archeological expedition in Peru were greater...

Trace pulled off her surgical cap and shook out her hair. "The chief nurse wants me? I wonder what for?" "There is one sure way to find out," the older nurse said dryly. "Better wear a sweater. The wind was straight off the bay wh...

It took the pain of a broken engagement to teach her what love should really be... Time of Decision... Mel Adams can't believe it when her fiance Van Osborn lets his family talk him into breaking off their engagement, so he can marry the he...

She was trying to decide about her future as a doctor...when she suddenly had to decide about her future as a woman. Time of Decision… All through her medical training, Carlinda “Lindy” Haynes had been so sure what she wanted to be: a neu...

Curtain Call... Kathy's head whirled. She had a chance at a career in the theater! She had been offered the part of Joan in Mel Goldwater's Civic Theater production of Joan of Lorraine. It was a part every actress wanted to play...and why ...

Time of Change… Beautiful Katie Anne Dugan never dreamed that one day the ivy quiet of Gainesbury University library would be disrupted by a glamorous film star, a famous screen writer, and equally famous director…or that she herself would be ...

Her little shop was a big success but did it really matter...when the man she loved was marrying someone else? Love in Bloom... Turning her old playhouse into a flower shop was an inspiration, Wanda Montgomery felt. And with her parents in Euro...

Would the dedicated doctor Ellen loved see the danger she was in...before it was too late? Ellen Stuart took the assignment in the little hospital in Caballo partly to see part of the world her father had known and loved...and partly to get away ...

She found a career with the fashion House of Ninon and the right man to love...if he would let her. Troubled times. Stacey Harrison has two good reasons for feeling nervous about coming home; her new job with the House of Ninon, one of San Fra...

Portrait Of Beauty... Photographer Glen Marden had never seen anyone as lovely as the young Amish girl tending the market booth. There was nothing glamorous about her, a white cap covered her braided blond hair and her blue dress reached her ankle...

Love and Duty… Two nurses had quit the job at Doc Brady’s Appalachian clinic the year before, quit in what Hope’s supervisor back at Community Hospital described as “anger, disgust, and plain sorrow. “Hope didn’t understand…then. She...

Carol Baird came home to Happy Valley to try and forget that the man she love was engaged to someone else. And it didn't look as if forgetting Larry would be as hard as she thought. To keep her mind on other things, there was her temporarty secre...

What was the matter with her, Laurie Taylor wondered. She had always looked forward to summers at Wind Island with the family, why not this summer? Why this discontent...this restless feeling? Laurie would have been astonished if anyone had put her p...

For Kay Fleming, nursing was a second career choice: she always wanted to be a doctor. And perhaps because it was second choice she was determined to be good at it. So when the man she loved, rugged young college football coach Duke Malone, was offer...

Like everything else before the movie people came to town, Rosemary took Josh for granted -- until she learned she would lose him. Lights, Camera, Action... To 18-year-old Rosemary Bancroft, a movie production company "invading" her New...

Curiosity brought beautiful redheaded model Frances Kerr to Charlton House in the San Fernando Valley. After all, it would have been her house if Richard Charlton hadn't jilted her to marry a millionairess. But Richard had jilted her, so it was e...

End of a Dream? For Christine "Christy" Merrill, life couldn't be more wonderful. She had her job as an orthopedic nurse at City General, and she had Paul... Paul Edfield whom she'd known and loved all her life. And one day soon, s...

Something sinister threatened the Coleman Circus and there was nothing Barrie Masters could do to help save it -- or was there? Nurse Barrie Masters signed up with the big Coleman Indoor Circus in her home town of Petrol, Oklahoma, because she wan...

Could making a success of her little shop ever make up for her broken heart? Give and Take... The last thing Linda Moore expected -- or wanted -- as a college graduation present from her Aunt Hattie was a rundown gift shop that was Midvale'...

Matchmaker... Stanley Stayton, head of the Stayton Advertising Agency, was trying to make up his mind whether to fire Molly Hubbard -- the best copywriter on the West Coast -- or marry her. Molly was interested in Stayton as a marriage prospect to...

Social worker, Claire Stanley knew and believed in the power of love, but as a woman she had yet to learn how blind love can sometimes be. Girl with “Soul”… Claire Stanley was the youngest and loveliest member of the Department of Social ...

She didn't believe little Pat Newlands was insane, she did believe someone was trying to drive the child mad . . . but could she prove it in time. Voice from the past… “Is that you, Laurel? How are you, darling?” When Nurse Laurel Wi...

The work she loved would only by a means an end and the man she loved would never be hers until she could escape the past... Diane Carson, in her ruby-red linen sheath, fitted beautifully into the decor of Madame Fredericks' New Orleans Beauty...

• 1967
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TURNING POINT... To Polly Wallace it seemed her life was over...at 19. Polly longed to go back to the art academy where she had been studying ceramics, but she was needed at home to help her semi-invalid mother. Bitterly disappointed, picturing he...

She kept telling herself she was there to heal sick animals, not fall in love, but she liked Dr. Val, liked Dr. Matt...which of them did she like best? A Beginning... For Gail Wilson, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, everything was n...

The "right man" for Susan had always been Ken... Until she met Steve and learned she still had some growing up to do. Confusion... "Save this one for me," Ken Martin, the handsome young college student working at the Creighton&#...

Wynne Bryant took the job at Twin Hills to be near her father, the club's golf pro, when she would have preferred the drama of a big city hospital. But Wynne soon discovers that "peaceful" Twin Hills has plenty of excitement of its own. F...

The Other Woman Nurse Gail was used to being called to the rescue by young Dr. Richard Charron, whom she’d known since childhood. The “emergency” was always the same: how to squash is Aunt Vanessa’s latest attempt to marry him off. But thi...

She had fallen in love once -- and lost. She wouldn't be fool enough to let that happen again. A Lesson for the Teacher As she bicycles down the street of her home town, Celia Meade wonders why, now that she has her teaching certificate, she n...

was it true that Julie couldn't care about anyone else the way she had once cared about Pat Reilly...or was she only afraid to. Past and Present... Julie Bliss was 16 when she fell in love with Pat Reilly, a boy from "the wrong side of th...

Lucky Lady... It's only coincidence that the first person Chris Richards runs into the night her fiancee, Bill Evans, breaks off their four-year engagement is her boss, Grant Harrison. But it changes her whole life. When Grant asks her what s...

The girl Between June Marshall has come halfway around the world from Australia to England -- with secretarial stopovers in Hollywood and New York -- for a reunion with her childhood sweetheart Tommy Watson. Tommy has just gotten his big break in ...

Had Vickie found love...true love...or only a glittering short-lived imitation of the real thing? Country Interlude A stranger at home since her father's remarriage, Gabrielle Wickersham was glad to accept her Aunt Nelda's invitation to...

Reluctant Heiress The last thing Maleah Morgan wants is "Mirror-Mirror," the beauty salon she inherits from her Aunt Mary. But under the terms of the will, Maleah has to keep it for six months -- and run it herself. This mean leaving her ...

Larry was only "pretending" -- he never expected Gail to take him seriously. And now that she knew the truth, could she ever believe in love again? Nothing in Gail Harrison's experience has prepared her for handsome, rich, sophisticated L...

How much would she sacrifice to help the man she loved? Even Faye didn’t know -- until she promised to marry someone else… Contest of Wills... One week a year, during its Ozarks Folk Festival, Midwell Springs becomes a 19th Century town aga...

Working in the New York office of Inn Towers, Inc, was fun for Carol. She liked Mr. Ferro, the big boss, and she liked her immediate superior, attractive Thelma Mount, who was Mr. Ferro's executive secretary. She even liked pert Evie, the blonde swit...

A hairpin turn on a tortuous mountain road in Mexico, a troop of burros, and a wrecked car combine to leave lovely, blond photographer-journalist Sandy Scott stranded -- miles from any sign of civilization. As she begins the long trek south to Mexico...

It didn’t matter she was destined to plan the happiest day of a girl’s life for other brides, but never for herself, until she met Whit Tolliver. Troubled Bride... Busy building a career as a wedding consultant Gwen Wright put aside any ide...

• 1959
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Les Hall wanted the perfect wife, and that was what Caro was grooming herself to be...when Dan O'Connor came along, looking for a woman to cherish. A Matter of Choice... From the moment she sees the modern glass "fishbowl" clinging ...

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD... The Girlpower Agency for Office Temporaries wasn't enthusiastic about the job at the small public relations firm of Cruikshank, Inc., but Pat Fravel felt anything would be better than sitting around brooding about how Co...

Dale had been in love with Alan Williams for years, but she didn’t begin to know him…not really…until Tilda Smith came back to town… Time for Reflection… Six years ago, Dale Madison and Alan Williams had planned their wedding for righ...

A Matter of Identity. Anne Ricco, the receptionist from optometry across the way, burst in. "I've been trying to get over here for ten minutes... how did you make out with your patient?" Joan smiled ruefully. "Very well, but I for...

• 1966
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The enemy within... Her first day at Clinton General, pretty Mary Winters made up her mind to become the best nurse that Miss Hendricks, superintendent of the school of nursing, ever took on an introductory tour of the hospital. Bright, dedicated...

What is lovely, intelligent Elaine Dougherty doing at the Fairlee estate disguised as a homely, not-too-bright maid? For that matter, what is handsome rising young attorney Harland Hammon doing there posing as a chauffeur? Ellie, daughter of private ...

Had she finally met a man who didn't see her as a trophy to be won, a man to whom she was much more than a gorgeous blonde -- only to lose him? Pixie Odburn returned to the old family home, commonly called Old House, to be reunited with the gr...

Anne Hendlay, owner of the Indian Arts Shoppe in Santa Fe, had two pressing problems. One: encouraging struggling young local artists by exhibiting their work side by side with Indian handicrafts, without offending regular customers who might find th...

It is a stage career that Kate really wanted above all else--above husband, home, and children--then why couldn't she get Pete out of her mind? Fateful Meeting... "Stagestruck!" was the way Kate Brown's Aunt Diana always put i...

A girl at sea... More than anything, 19 year-old Laura Kramer wanted to see the world -- and what better way than to join the Navy? But leaving the golden wheat fields of Kansas and the comfort of her family proved harder than Laura imagined it w...

Faith had been so sure -- so very sure -- she loved Roger…until Mart Ferguson held her in his arms. Golden Girl... Wealthy Gareth Sinclair has built a "golden wall" around his daughter Faith to protect her from harsh reality...but it is begin...

Melita Arnold had inherited the Bell Town News from her father, but her uncle was running the paper for her until she was experienced enough to take over. So Melita couldn't understand why Uncle Rufe hired a new rewrite man without talking to her...

"There'll never be anyone but you for me, Kate," Rade told her the night he declared his love. And she believed him--until she read the letter from Rome... End of a Dream... Kate Mason has everything--beauty, a successful career in ...

Spunky Barrie Foster, R.N., was ready to defy the whole town of Delta to help save an old friend -- even if it meant losing a man she had come to love. Now that her mother had passed away, the last thing Barrie Foster wanted was to go back to Delt...

SCENARIO... When their play closed In Boston, Clare Lister and Eddie Gibbon found themselves out of work... again. For Clare and Eddie, it was an old story, part of every young actor's and actress's struggle for stardom... along with such ...

• 1952
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Why should a beautiful April morning make Mary feel like running away? And from what? Herself? Roger? Or the stranger who asked her to look into her heart... Voice of Experience Mary Parker was grateful to the family that had taken her out of a...

• 1962
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She could trust her talent to bring her success some day, but how much would it be worth without the man who loved her? The lesson. Eve Parish has one ambition: to be a dress designer. And what better place to begin than at the top -- at Madame Raymo...

Beatrice Goddard had a job, sheriff’s deputy, and a problem: the man she loved was doing his best to get her fired. Lady With A Badge... As the prettiest, most soft-hearted deputy sheriff in Big Mountain, Beatrice Goddard was naturally sympa...

Collision Course Unless the newspaper photograph lied, good-looking young Dr. Jay Martin was the man for Suzy Sanders. The High Valley paper ran the photo when Jay's stepfather, Dr. Warrick, died, along with an explanation of why Jay had been...

Lisa had never questioned the depth of Lane's feeling for her -- or hers for him. Why should she...when she didn't really know what true love was? Home Sweet Home... A little selfish, more than a little spoiled, Lisa Hallford wanted to b...

Aloha Matilda… “Practical” was the way people saw Matilda Mathews. It made her giggle as she stood on the deck of the sleek ocean liner: what could be less practical than taking her savings and using them for a trip to Hawaii? But it would t...

Unfinished Melody… Orphaned Alice Turner didn’t want to go and live with her uncle, New York music critic, Phillip any more than he wanted her to come and live with him. But he was her guardian now that her mother was dead and after all, it wo...

Journey's End... It was a long way from Arizona to her father's house in Mississippi, and Faith Bannister made the trip reluctantly. Her father was ill and her stepmother had sent for her...Faith wondered what her stepmother was like...an...

Philadelphia Story... Sitting in the bus, on her way to Philadelphia, Emily Stevens was still smoldering over what her parents had done to her and Ken. How could they separate them just because they thought Emily shouldn't go steady. And how c...

How long could Deborah remain a fugitive on an island that time forgot, denying her true identity and the profession she had trained so hard for? A premonition come true... Deborah McGarthy was uneasy about the cruise, but old Mr. Engleman ins...

Social Worker Helen Wilder's philosophy was simple: some decisions are made with the head, some with the heart. But what happens when the heart is divided? It took persistence and determination to find jobs for her handicapped clients and some...

Granada Court was a Spanish-style haven surrounded by Florida orange groves. It had been built by Karen Justin's father. But since his death a motel syndicate had a way of sending "anonymous" observers to check on properties with sagging ...

Six days in Los Angeles and Gretchen Owen is still out of work and almost out of funds. Confusion over a lunch check brings J.L.E. Helwig to her rescue-a dashing gentleman who, to young Gretchen, looks like an Austrian nobleman. Helwig, however, is a...

For Nan, The Marches was the home she had never had--something to be treasured, fought for. She hadn't yet learned that love can't be bound by four walls. Archeologist Corinne Douglas had offered Nan Hamilton a secretarial job, and the pre...

When Betty Rice of the Redwood Valley Star launched her campaign to protect the bluejay, native to the valley, from thoughtless hunters, she expected some opposition -- but hardly a "war." There were the usual cancellations and anonymous phon...

Bill had meant so much to her--there could never be anyone like him. But there had to be an end to grieving someday, somehow, with someone...someone like Joe? Mourning's End .. When her fiance was killed in a plane crash, three days before...

The candidate... Every morning at 8:10 the tall, handsome redheaded young man entered the ancient elevator in the State's Capitol building and every morning Pam Pomeroy eyed him through thick dark lashes, wondering who he was. It might have been ...

Brooke had made a career of comforting others. Now her own world was coming apart and betrayed by those she had loved most, who could she turn to? Dear Nell... Brooke Kirkland's understanding and compassion made her the perfect choice for h...

Red-haired, blue-eyed Nurse Lyle Mackey was a warmhearted girl who liked taking care of the twenty wealthy and elderly women who were the guests at Harewood House. They, in turn, were fond of her -- until, unexpectedly, she became involved in the mys...

Ivy had everything a girl could want, an exciting job and a wonderful man who loved her. Yet how much were they worth, if they cost her sister’s happiness? Sister Act . . . Though identical twins, Ivy and Iris Alexander are as different in ...

HEARTACHE... A broken romance brought Enid Sherman home from New York -- home to Sherman Oaks with its gently-rolling hills, its horses, its white-pillared mansion echoing the Old South. Here there would be nothing to remind her of advertising ma...

Second Meeting When Janean Sharon was 17 she thought she was in love with Michael Drennan -- enough in love to elope. But a flat tire stranded the runaways on a mountain in the middle of a storm and Jan had time to change her mind. How much the attr...

Prescription for Fear… Running short of money while traveling in Europe, Ruth Blakely goes to work at a hospital in Aberdeen, Scotland. The spunky blonde American nurse is on duty the night Rob Duncan is brought in, badly hurt in a car crash -- ...

Searching Heart For Julie Lachlan, “home” meant a painting of snow topped Mt. Hood which her Oregon born mother had carried with her wherever Julie’s dad’s job as an oil company geologist had taken them. Now her parents were dead, killed i...

Beautiful, talented Gail Scott was one of Hollywood's biggest box office attractions. At 23, the girl with the heart-shaped face had starred in three very successful movies and had another in the planning stage. So her announcement that she was &...

Reluctant Voyager Standing on the deck of the Yukon riverboat, staring at the fast-receding shoreline, pretty Kathy Arnold couldn’t have felt more miserable. Once the idea of going into the Alaskan wilderness to keep house for her brother, Peter...

Homecoming. . . Gray-eyed Sara Winslow was not a great beauty but she made the most of what she had -- and what she had above all was brains. As a young girl, growing up in Riverbend, Michigan, she had been ambitious, determined to make a success o...

Problem for the teacher. Ava Dean thought the town of Dorsett behaved very badly when, without warning, it fired its superintendent of school, a man who'd put in may years of dedicated work. She said so in an angry letter to the local paper -- a ...

Inez "mothered" Andy from the day they met, taught him to lean on her, and now that she needed someone to lean on...was it strange that it should be another man? A Matter of Priority... It was second nature for Inez Darwell to think fir...

As a nurse on duty in the VIP lounge of Trans-Continental Airlines, Clare Andrews' lot was to stay on terra firma, but to minister to passengers from all over the world. Some were temperamental, some agreeable; some hypochondriacs and some really...

Nurse on Call When Mary Wain joined Nationwide, longed for romance seemed just on her horizon. Here she was, a small-town girl, now nurse to the top talent of TV! But even more excitement awaited Mary. Someone was passing on the networks secret...

It wasn't the first time Jerry had postponed their wedding for "business reasons." It was the first time in nine years of loving him that Carol asked herself if she still wanted to marry him. "Homes of Tomorrow for Brides of Today...

Still weak from a bout with pneumonia and weighed down by medical bills, Ann Dawson -- accompanied by her kid sister, Terry -- arrived in Point Hope hoping to make a go of the tiny store a miserly aunt had unexpectedly willed to Ann. But the sisters ...

When Gilyan's fiance ran off with someone else, her world fell apart. But was it heartbreak or only hurt pride that kept her from picking up the pieces with somebody new... As usual, when covering a wedding for the women's page of the San ...

Nobody seeing Janey McGrath could imagine her needing the services of a beauty farm. She was stunning -- tawny hair, big brown eyes, and a lovely figure that had won her the top modeling job at Elaine's...but maybe not for long. Elaine liked her ...

It was an impossible proposition, Catherine told herself. She could never marry a man she hardly knew for the sake of a "lost" treasure! But her heart told her: "Wait..." Later, Catherine Vickers wondered many times why she hadn...

Lakeville was a pretty town…without a heart. Could it be “reformed” before it wrecked Sue Thompson’s life by driving away the man she loved? Eye of the Beholder Driving into Lakeville for a long-overdue visit with her favorite aunt, Sue...

Gordon Forrester need someone like life-loving Dulcie to help him find happiness again, and she thought being needed would be enough...until she met his brother Andy. A Heart Divided When the supervisor of the steno pool at Butler-Bayliss Enter...

• 1960
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For years, Merle thought she was in love with Lynn Dallas. That was before she met Jerry and learned that a woman who truly loved would give up her man to prove it... Boomerang... It began with a publicity campaign re-porter Merle Troy helped ...

She could cope with the broken fences and bad-tempered cows she'd inherited along with her ranch, but could she manage the two stubborn men who loved her without breaking someone's heart...perhaps her own? Not every girl inherits a cattle ...

Bill was dear and safe and kind, but Sterling was then handsome Prince Charming a "plain" girl like Stacy always dreamed about and never hoped to meet... Enchanted Heart... Old Mrs. Gower would never have rented the room to Stacy Lowell...

Who was behind the smear campaign at Brentwood Hospital? What did they know about the secret in Dr. Leinster's past -- a secret so disturbing he couldn't even confide in the nurse he loved. 'Helen and I sat down for a moment, and she was very underst...

The cowboy and the ladies. The Twin Diamond Health Resort Ranch for Women in New Mexico is an oasis for weary, wealthy ladies looking to recover their zest for living. Not the least of the ranch's many assets is its pretty blond director of activ...

• 1962
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Dinah and Ledford came from two different worlds, worlds she told him could never be bridged. But he suspected another reason for her rejection -- another man, Rick Marston... A Match for Dinah...? That winter season in Palm Beach began like ...

A disaster at sea left Julie Weston an orphan at 18 with a young brother and sister to look after. Fortunately, money wasn't a problem -- Julie's father, artist Conrad Weston, had made sure of that. But, there were other problems. Aunt Harrie...

Beautiful Rebel... When her father invites her to join him on a trip to Merle's inlet, South Carolina, for a visit with the two elderly aunts who raised him, Eileen Anderson is an enthusiastic -- until she remembers that Dick Cranston, the goo...

Was Mary McLendon too much like the “Cherokee Rose”…a beautiful blossom so surrounded by thorns no man -- no even one as determined as David Carmichael -- could get close to her? Off-Camera Drama The maze of control panels, camera booms ...

Generation gap. Because of her love for the grandparents who had given her a home after her parents had died, Geraldine Greene had always wanted to specialize in geriatrics. But she soon learned that elderly patients were reluctant to put their t...

The wound on Cass' face would heal, but what about the wound in her heart? Would it deny her true happiness forever...? Scarred... A newcomer to San Francisco, Cass Everett already loved everything about the city and, she suspected, was mor...

Ballad of the D Bar 40 When her uncle let Marietta Dunbar take over the D Bar 40, it was on condition that she make a financial go of it. Unfortunately, the dude ranch was long on scenery and horses but short on guest, and Marietta knew why: not eno...

A New Career... Dorothy Barton walked out on a successful television career in New York City to buy an old inn on Maryland's eastern shore, where she had grown up. The move caught her fans, her friends, and her co-workers by surprise. And thou...

The secret her mother had kept from her so long wasn't half as important to Fran as the one she learned for herself when she met Austin: that to truly love, a woman must live her own life. Country Girl... For a girl who had always lived in ...

The Test… On her 21st birthday, musical entertainer, Lindy Lawrence decides -- over the objections of her domineering show business mother--to visit her cousin Fran and her husband and children on their farm in the south of France. En route, Lin...

Had Peggy met Hugh too late? Had she spent too much time dreaming of the past to accept the love the present offered her? Invitation... Peggy McKnight had never seen the ghost of Annetke Van Tyl, but she believed in her -- just as she believed...

Marcia Winston was trying to forget the pain of her first love. But was new love the same as true love. Marcia Winston was born in Chicago, grew to adulthood there...and knew her first love there. And when that first love went sour, Marcia knew t...

Matchmaker... This time, Mary Thorne felt, her Aunt Harriet had gone too far. It was one thing to decide it was time for Mary to marry; it was another to pick the prospective groom! Harriet's choice was wealthy, good-looking, globe-trotting youn...

Felicia had always dreamed of being a successful dress designer. But after she met Paul, she had another dream: to design the most beautiful wedding gown in fashion history...her own. Wheel of Fortune... Petite Felicia Burke was a beginning dre...

Eleanor loved Frank Canfield. She didn’t believe she could ever love anyone else -- until that moonlit night under Miss Why’s ancient maple tree when she saw him at last for what he really was… The Boarder… Miss Why had committed hersel...

Pretty "postmistress" Adrienne Akars had left herself get as drab as her life, but she didn't care -- until four good-looking strangers came to town and the one who mattered treated her like a piece of post office furniture... Adrienne...

Political upset. Ann Brady's four year's experience as confidential secretary to the mayor of Clayton City had taught the 23-year-old redhead many things -- above all, how to get ahead regardless of who or what got in her way. The votes had h...

• 1968
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Playboy Bachelor Stuart Keith, president of the Keith Printing Company, was the most eligible bachelor in town. Ann Dalton worked as his private secretary--and had been in love with him from almost the very first moment she was introduced to him. ...

She was known as Nurse Sanders at the Club where only the super rich and most famous people were allowed to become members. How could she get Captain Joseph Mackenzie to realize that she could never be one of them? They were the glamorous super-ri...

Showdown for Love Her broken engagement to ambitious young actor Clint Fleming was still painfully recent when the school year ended, leaving high school teacher Jackie Morrow with nothing to look forward to but a routine summer job and too much tim...

Road to Love... "Highwaymen," was Amanda Winsted's disapproving label for the men brought in to work on the new road through the -- until then -- quiet little Vermont town to Burrbridge, and it took all the power of persuasion Babs Montg...

Jan Parker’s well-meaning Uncle Luke had made her family rich . . . and greedy and jealous. But for Jan he luckily saved something much more precious: young Doctor John Harrow and the gift of love. . . Poor Cinderella . . . Another girl mi...

New Man in Town… Was it love, or habit, or fear of being left and “old maid” that caused Stella Hastings to date Don Hunt for four years without any real promises of marriage? She told herself it was love…but that was before Paul Christie...

How much did she owe to the living, how much to the dead? There was only one possible answer for Vicky, not only as a nurse but as the daughter of Dr. Sam Blair... Emergency call. Vicky Blair, R.N. knew her mother would never ask her to give u...

Had Juliann's best friend, Melissa Lawson, committed suicide...or was there some more sinister explanation of her death? And what would the answer mean to Juliann's happiness to her love for Karm Fuller...? Open Verdict… Melissa Lawso...

For Roberta Royale, working for the Drake Steamship Company had been a dream come true. And now she stood by helplessly, seeing it destroyed, knowing she might save it . . . but at the cost of her own personal happiness. Drake SS . . . For a ...

Clara didn't believe in ghosts, but she did believe in evil. And there was evil in Wycliffe House. Yet Clara stayed--expecting the man she loved to be there when she needed him. But had she put her trust in the right man? Girl In The Middle. ...

Something was wrong a Blithe House - Hester had sensed it all along. Could she escape whatever hid in the menacing shadows, or had she waited too long.? Nightmare. The Spanish moss, trailing from the trees was so many ghostly, clutching arms ...

After the death of her father in Korea, Margo Hale and her mother, Tonia, lived with Margo's Aunt Elinor -- and when Tonia gave up her fight for life without the man she loved, Margo looked upon her aunt as her sole relative. Dimly, she knew that...

A Mind Made Up... When publicist Jeanne Burke agrees to chaperon movie queen Sharon Lindsey's little girl on a visit to her grandfather in Florida, it isn't out of friendship for spoiled and selfish Sharon, but out of love for four-year-ol...

A Bride Comes Home... Blair Granson is used to being passed over in favor of her older sister, Lisa. Still, when her mother reneges on a promised trip to Mexico, Blair is hurt and disappointed--she has been looking forward to studying art there. ...

• 1965
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Challenge... Were the campus gossips right? Had Sara Grant lived too long in the sheltered academic atmosphere of Barnes College, making a home for her widowed father, to manage on her own now that Professor Grant was dead? There was only one way ...

Cousin Harriet was dead, murdered, and Jonne was one of the many suspects. But clearing herself didn't matter half as much as convincing herself that the man she loved wasn't the murderer. Death of an Heiress... To know Harriet Ussher ...

Leone came to Ashbrook House as a happy young bride, but stayed as a prisoner of her own heart...knowing she would never be free to go until the old mansion was rid of its evil... Welcome Home... The huge blood-red brick mansion, its tall corne...

What should a girl do, Lucy Garret asked herself, when one of the two men in her life moved too fast and the other moved far too slow...? New Girl in Town... Shy, self-effacing Lucy Garrett might have stayed in the background forever if circums...

Katie Jones was just one of hundreds of eager young Washington secretaries when ex-Senator Jonas Caldwell picked her as "Girl Friday" for his protege Michael Koury. If the people voted the way Mike's supporters wanted them to, the handsome young war ...

Laura Henderson had been dead for years and her descendant, Ann Henderson, didn't believe in ghosts. But how could she explain the feeling that Laura was trying to reach her, warn her, trying desperately before it was too late? Night Visitor.....

There was something about Paul Warley that made Lori want to protect him...even after his stepmother disappeared, even after she began to wonder if he might not be a murderer... A Lady Vanishes... A bowl of half-peeled apples in the middle of t...

“Poor little rich girl,” Gloria Graylock married the man Carol Benson had hoped to marry. Now someone was determined to destroy the blonde heiress, and only Carol had a chance to save her… Girl on the Run… Jilted by the man she loved, C...

What sinister shadow from the past had followed young Dr. Wade into remote Labrador? And was it going to destroy him now, because Nurse Nancy had fallen in love with him...? Blackmail in the Wilderness... For Nurse Nancy Gilchrist, a year's...

Reluctant Heiress… If Lorna Palmer hadn’t been so in love with Bruce Hedrick she might have been thrilled to hear that she had inherited an orange grove. But under the eccentric terms of her Aunt Margaret’s will, Lorna must live on the prope...

Burnt Child... Kathy Gilhousen had always had a genius for self-deception, At six she had convinced herself that her father could not possibly love her because he wasn't really her father -- as she'd discovered by cruel accident -- but her...

• 1963
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Twice someone had tried to kill her, but Gisella could not leave Castle Wiederbeck as long as the man she adored was blind to the disaster that threatened him--blinded by love for another woman... Haunted House... To live in a castle while stud...

Physical therapist Ellen Anders knew just what to do to help mend a patient's crushed leg or fractured arm, but what could she prescribe for her own shattered heart...? Friends and Sweethearts.... There was hardly a nurse at Hilltop Hospita...

Marry in Haste… Meg Brook’s romance and marriage had been such a whirlwind affair that she didn’t have time to learn much about her husband’s family…or, for that matter, much about her husband, Don and the “top secret” work he did wh...

A woman lay dead in a Hong Kong hotel and now Evelyn knew that the thing that had stalked her across the Pacific would stop at nothing -- not even murder -- and that she could not escape it anymore than she could escape from herself… Troubled V...

• 1952
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Hazel was the one member of the family everyone else could count on in an emergency and did. A girl as levelheaded as she was beautiful…a girl with a secret wish: to find someone to take care of her! Girl on the Move... "Daughter," Ha...

Azimuths, alidades, anemometers -- the words were "Greek" to Carlie Alcott, the new fire lookout at Sundown Mountain Tower. The tower, though, was the perfect place to get away from it all -- "all," in Carlie's case, meaning Micha...

Something evil had invaded tranquil Anamark Island -- an evil that had already taken one life. Now it was reaching out again...could it be stopped before it destroyed everything Paula Bancroft loved? Journey to terror... Paula Bancroft love th...

She had fled to Mexico and the Camara de Cima looking for a refuge. Instead, Kathy Williams, RN, found a new danger...and a new love, but one she knew she had no right to claim. Redheaded With a Past... Running from a malicious scandal that h...

Child of Misfortune… Left unexpectedly disinherited, Laura Maxwell must find a job, and takes one with the eccentric Carrick family -- famed Egyptologists -- as a companion to 8-year-old Megan Carrick. Soon after Laura joins the household, old M...

For 18 years the east wing had kept its secret, but now Mona Dee, Arabella's daughter, had come home, as beautiful as her long-lost mother...and perhaps as doomed! An Heiress Returns... As Mona Dee drove into the grounds of Vespers, the be...

Night Walk… They body lay sprawled in the sand at the foot of the veranda stairs of the Mirarosa Beach Manor, stiffening fingers clutching a handkerchief with the initials “M M,” -- her initials, Monica Merrill thought, dazed, but not her ha...

Behind the gaiety and glitter of life at Saratoga Spring, Felicia Delmar sensed something dark, something threatening, something that could not risk exposure--and so she must be destroyed... Sun and Shadow... Saratoga Springs was as exciting as...

• 1971
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A Lesson for the Teacher... Pretty home economics teacher Diana Gilmore is one of those picked by Wainsboro High School to help with a project for its "special" students-the mentally retarded youngsters who are only "faint echoes" ...

St. Catherine’s Hospital was located in Seaside, California, not far from San Francisco, but its main attraction for dark-haired, blue-eyed Ava Kendall was that there she could continue to surf -- a thrilling sport that she had learned to love when...

What web of deception was strangling the roots of Cypresswood? Nicole Bradfern believed she owed it to the father she had never really known to expose it...but was it worth her life? A Family Reunion... Nicole Bradfern hardly remembered the fath...

Already juggling two daily columns and a weekly food page for the Bay Record, Marcia Dunbar blew her redheaded top when she was handed the "Aunt Samantha" lovelorn column too. "Kid, stuff," she raged, and stormed out of the office to ...

Liz Sewell didn't want to believe one of her friends on Swan's Neck was a murderer. Much easier to blame the stranger in their midst, Stuart Duff...except that no stranger could have known them all so dangerously well... The Hunted… T...

It would take more than a fortune-teller to solve Nurse Sue Whittier's dilemma: Should she tell her dying former sweetheart the truth, or should she leave him in peace and let his scheming wife and brother rob him...? Clouded Future... When...

Madeline came to Roswell House unaware of the legacy of murder and injustice that tormented those who live there. And when she learned the truth, it was too late to leave... House With A Past... It was prophetic that Madeline Hunter arrived at...

The Shoring twins, Robin and Bob, had the reputation of doing anything for a lark. In fact, the high-spirited two somewhat scandalized the sedate Jonathan Witt, who was the executor of their parents' will. Mr. Witt held out the two as an example ...

The Play's the Thing... Stella Allward didn't have much faith in Courtney Burr's new play "Girl in Love," since all his others had been flops. But touring with the show in summer theater would be good expereince, even if it n...

Everyone believed Jim Blayne guilty of his wife Dorothea’s murder -- everyone except his former sweetheart. But did Sally have the right to ask Race Danvers, who loved her, to help her save the man she had never stopped loving…? When the invi...

When Donna Mitchell left City Hospital for private nursing, she didn't expect her first job to take her halfway around the world to Istanbul. But there she was, accompanying her employer-patient -- a wealthy importer named Eastman -- on a busines...

Freda knew there would be no happiness for her and Owen Rollins as long as he remained haunted by his fiancée's suicide. No future together until he could find the courage to let go of the past... Small-Town Scandal... Freda Warick had c...

Companion to Danger… The stormy night 20-year-old Denise Varnet arrived at the de Brissac mansion, the family cat squeaked by with what the housekeeper swore was the last of its nine lives. Later, looking back at the incident, Denise saw it as a...

The Haunted... For some reason, Cynthia Rutledge was reluctant to enter Redfern House that first day. It seemed to her the place was waiting...waiting with the ominous stillness of a cat before it pounces, crouched in the red ferns from which it got ...

• 1960
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Ladies in Distress... Redheaded Cynthia "Cricket" Keenan, an elementary school teacher, had been eagerly looking forward to a restful summer vacation with her sister, Carmen, and her grandmother. Gramarie's cottage in Lakeville, which ...

What better chance to make a man fall in love with her than on a cruise? Busy scheming how to attract Jeff Hale, deliberately chasing him, Kate McGowan never stopped to consider what might happen when she caught him... Cruising Heart... Redhead...

RETURN TO THE PAST... It was only chance that Melissa Belleau saw William Harrington's ad for a governess for his two motherless children, and an amazing coincidence that he was the latest owner of Belleau House, the "steamboat Gothic"...

As an illustrator of children's books in a large publishing firm, Betty Archer had a job which she liked and was perfectly happy. In fact, it was actually a relief each morning to reach the sanctuary of the office and to escape the old brownstone...

An anonymous warning to get out of town or else was Dolores Saunders’ “welcome” to Brookville, a warning the pretty nurse ignored, until a wild ride down the mountain convinced her someone really was determined to kill her. Target Of Hate.....

The last boarder to leave exclusive Hilltop had departed for "greener pastures," Blair Adams, the newest resident, was told. A quaint expression that amused her...until she began to suspect that the lady had been murdered! The Lady and ...

There was so much to be done in the Afghanistan village of Darreh-i-Angurha, so much Alice Warner, R.N., tried to do...only to be asked to leave by the people she wanted so much to serve! The Valley Of Grapes . . . A hair-raising ride over twi...

Kathryn's parents have qualms about her driving all the way from Chicago to New Mexico alone, but Kathryn has no fears at all --- no fears... Kate McDowell's dude ranch vacation wasn't exactly what she'd planned. For instance, she ...

The dean of her college had recommended this summer position to Gena Adams, but he had not told her that she would be responsible for more than her young charge’s art lessons. As it turned out, ten-year-old Claudine Worthington’s very life depend...

Susan Hasbrouck was bright and beautiful and Doctor Hank Lacrosse was half in love with her already. But why, did the girl like to sit around in the moonlight -- talking about deadly pictures? New Girls in Town... Word of the arrival of wealthy...

For Lovers Only… If a girl caller her sweetheart’s name into the well at Three Echoes Inn and it came echoing back three times, her love was true. But if his name returned only once or twice, he did not love her…and if there was no answering...

Although she had been born to Amer­ican parents, Denise had been raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, and on her return to the United States felt a stranger in a strange land. So it was with some trepidation that she made her way to The Captain'...

Gail Sherman had been promised everything that her Aunt Harriet’s money and position could buy. All the lovely R.N. had to do in exchange was give up her home, her career, and the young doctor who loved her… Time of Decision... Everyone who...