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William Edward Daniel Ross was born on November 16, 1912 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, son of Laura (Brooks) and William Edward Ross. In 1930, while he studied, he began his career as the manager of an acting company with which he also acted. Very early in his professional life, he was awarded the Dominion Drama Festival Prize for Playwriting. During the Second World War, he served with British Entertainment Services.
He married Charlotte McCormack, who died in 1959, and remarried in 1960, with the nurse Marilyn Ann Clark. He began writing short-stories in 1950s, and novels after his second marriage. Her wife was the first reader of his works. He wrote popular romances and gothic fiction as W. E. D. Ross and Dan Ross and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Jane Rossiter, Leslie Ames, Ellen Randolph, Ann Gilmer, Rose Williams, Rose Dana, Clarissa Ross, Marilyn Ross, Jan Daniels, Charlotte McCormack, Ruth Dorset, Miriam Leslie, Amber Ross, Dana Ross, Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Diana Randall, and Marilyn Carter. He started writing erotic novels as Olin Ross, and Western novels as Dan Roberts and Tex Steele. He died on November 1, 1995 in his native Saint John, at 82, survived by his wife.
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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The Fog and the Stars
- 1963
- / Gothic
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Steve Ryder had come back to Saint John to work for a law firm handling the affairs of S. C. North, a wealthy and shrewd business man with interests in that part of Canada. He is stern and unbending in his relations with his employees. Five years bef...
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Kate Wilder, R.N.
- Jan-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Nurse Kate Wilder returned to the small coastal town in Maine, she expected coolness -- but not open hostility. If handsome Carter Havelock, Jr. hadn't stopped her, she would have left immediately. But then young Doctor Stanley helped her fa...
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Surgeon's Nurse
- Jan-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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A doctor's secret scandal - and a nurse's faith in the man she loved. Working with Dr. Clay Burke was a supreme challenge for any nurse -- but for lovely young Jill Rowley, the job meant much more. She was head over heels in love with the ...
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Nurse Cran... Emergency
- Jan-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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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...
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Traveling With Sara
- Jan-1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 ...
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Lisa Ray, Copy Girl
- 1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Lisa meets her cantankerous stepfather for lunch at a New York restaurant and hears his angry tirade against the bustling, loveless metropolis as compared to her home town, Mount Joy, Pennsylvania--where love and security await her--she is unmov...
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Nurse in the Tropics
- Jan-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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A handsome doctor, a guilty secret and a violent threat seemed to conspire against Nurse Alice's new-found happiness... When her fiance married her best friend, Nurse Alice Connors was heartbroken. To escape the painful memories, she accepted ...
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A Castle for the Nurse
- Jan-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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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 -- ...
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Nurse on Call
- Jan-1968
- / Contemporary Romance
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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...
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Girl in Love
- Jan-1968
- / Contemporary Romance
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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...
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Private Nurse
- Jan-1969
- / General Fiction
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Susan Boyd comes to Springvale to work in the hospital where her talented surgeon father had been so well known before his death, but hospital politics, small-town gossip, and an emergency operation converge to help her find love and the truth about ...
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Celebrity Nurse
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Are celebrities really like you and me under their trappings of glamour, wealth, and chauffered [sic] limousines? Red-haired Cathy Lewis, a skilled and devoted young private-duty nurse, was about to find out. She had accepted a position with New York...
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A Nurse's Love Story
- Jan-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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As soon as word came from Dr. Russell Grover that a scrub-nurse position was available at Pentland General, Rose Lannen immediately left her nursing duties in New York and flew up to Pentland, Maine. It seemed odd that Rose would give up a big-city h...
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Skyscraper Nurse
- Jan-1976
- / Contemporary Romance
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Young blonde Iris Grant had often gazed at the gleam of steel and glass across the park from her apartment, but she never dreamed that she would someday work in the Morris Building. She was quite satisfied with her job as head nurse at Huntsf...
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Nurse at Breakwater Hotel
- Mar-1982
- / Contemporary Romance
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The Breakwater Hotel on Maine’s beautiful seashore had a splendid reputation. But June Rusk got an unpleasant feeling the day she arrived and met Ernest Brinkley, the nervous hotel manager. There was something not quite honest about the man, and so...