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Arlene Hale
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Born and raised in Iowa, Mary Arlene Hale attended a one-room country school for eight years until her family moved to the small town of New London, Iowa, six miles from her birthplace. There she graduated from high school and began working, spending her evenings and weekends writing poetry, short stories, and eventually novels. Arlen Hale had been on a full-time basis since 1954.
Multi-Author Series List
Wildfire Romance
24 - Lisa (1981)42 - The Impossible Love (1982)
Book List in Order: 100 titles
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Nurse Conner Comes Home
- 1964
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Sue Conner never thought of competing with her sister Marsha. Marsha was the family beauty who led an exciting life, never lacking for a date. Sue was the serious and sensible type -- dedicated to her demanding job as a nurse and resigned to the fact...
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Private Duty for Nurse Scott
- 1965
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When Stella Bennett had a stroke, Nicole Scott, R.H., rushed to nurse her old friend back to health. So absorbed did Nicole become in her patient, that she began to forget her problems with Mark, her fiance. To complicate matters, Nicole found hersel...
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Nurse Jean's Strange Case
- 1970
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Webb House, a somber old mansion near Shadow Lake, was a house of secrets. To Nurse Jean Reese, the occupants were strange characters indeed -- each with a secret life -- a private, closely hidden world not to be shared. In Jean’s life, too,...
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Executive Nurse
- Jul-1971
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Enid Lawrence took the job of nurse at the Dalton Manufacturing Company because she had promised a dying patient to correct Dalton's unsafe working conditions. Soon she was in close contact with the man most responsible, Morris Mitchell, a handso...
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A Time for Us
- 1972
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Meet Corliss Mitchell who defied her father to passionately love a man he despised. Reese Sheridan who wanted Corliss and success but couldn't have both. Drew Fielding, the attractive family attorney who stood ready whenever Corliss needed him to off...
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Be My Love
- Jan-1975
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Fate seemed to have smashed all young Leslie Jordan's dreams. Her father's illness had forced her to move to the Colorado Rockies, leaving behind her plans for college and for marriage to her childhood sweetheart. But once Leslie arrived a...
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Wait for Love
- Sep-1975
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Marcia Jordan was taking the biggest gamble of her young life when she opened a catering business of her own. Not only was she scared of being "boss" for the first time, but she had a large loan hanging over her pretty head, and a ruthless pr...
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In Love's Own Fashion
- Jan-1976
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A talented designer must choose between love and a career. Evonne was beautiful, talented --- and trying hard to make it in the world of fashion. She was also very much in love with Mark Kelly --- a handsome, rich young man with big-business ideas...
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The Stormy Sea of Love
- Mar-1976
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She thought that she had found her heart's desire until someone new stepped into her life... Paradise was being the highly popular social director of a successful resort hotel, having the kind of good looks that turned any man’s head, and being...
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A Happy Ending
- Aug-1976
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Young Diane DeMarco was going to make her own way in the world. Not all the DeMarco family money could make her sell out her dream of proving her own worth. No fortune-hunting man was going to turn her head from her goal. Diane gave romance a back se...
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When Dreams Come True
- 1977
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It seemed a dream come true when young Rochelle Rogers took a post as private nurse to an ailing millionaire on his fabulous estate. Raised in a background of poverty, Rochelle had longed for an atmosphere of wealth and comfort. But in the luxurious ...
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Legacy of Love
- Mar-1977
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When lovely Anita Avery flew to beautiful Seven Keys to claim her legacy, she didn't expect to find love. She didn't even know the true extent of her inheritance. Handsome lawyer Phil Conover asked her to stay while he investigated, and even ...
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Nurse in Residence
- Jun-1977
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Lovely April Douglas grew up haunted by the disappearance of her father. What kind of man was he? Why had he left his wife and infant daughter? Had he really perished at sea, his body never found? That ghost of the past now came to trouble April a...
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Lover's Reunion
- Sep-1977
- / Contemporary Romance
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Beautiful Barbara Martin was off on a holiday that might lead to marriage or the end of a romance... Lovers' reunion that was what the beautiful chalet in the Colorado mountains meant to lovely young Barbara Martin. She could hardly wait t...
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The Hungry Heart
- Dec-1977
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One shattering night turned Lisa Larsen's life from a song of love into heartbreaking blues. Without warning, handsome Ross Hunter told Lisa that theirs had only been a "fun romance" and now it was over. Long ago, Lisa had seen her father abandon ...
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Love's Sweet Surrender
- Nov-1980
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She came to Bella Grande to heal a broken heart and rebuild a shattered career. But Angela Wales, photographer, could not escape, not even on this isolated island in the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly Michael Field, an old flame who had waited long enough,...
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In the Name of Love
- Oct-1981
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In the Name of Love Dangerous currents eddied about Graystone. But it wasn't until artist Lori Mitchell settled into her friend's seaside Maine estate that the mysterious intruder, Shawn Hodson, first appeared. Graystone was his for th...
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The Impossible Love
- 1982
- / Contemporary Romance
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Jenny and Pam. Sisters. Pam is gorgeous. Jenny is “interesting looking.” Pam is popular. Jenny has two close friends. Pam has one boyfriend after another. Jenny is sure no boy but faithful Thad will ever look twice at her. Until Mark comes to tow...
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Nurse Shelley Decides
- Jan-1996
- / Contemporary Romance
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Shelley left a rewarding career -- rewarding in all respects except financial -- in a big-city hospital to nurse a private patient. Scorned by her former associates, she became even more miserable when she had to deal with: her patient's daughter set...
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Camp Nurse
A nurse, Nora Fleming knew, was never supposed to become emotionally involved with her patients. But she hadn't counted on vital, handsome Willie, one of the counselors at the boys' camp where she had taken a position as head nurse. One day, ...
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Chicago Nurse
Was this love in disguise -- or a threat to her future? When Nurse Delora Lambert boarded the train for Chicago, she left behind everything she knew and loved. Behind her was the unwanted sympathy of friends who told her it would only be a matter of ...
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Community Nurse
When Leah Larkin, R.N., left the large city where she had worked as an office nurse, she felt that she was following her lucky star. For the handsome Cal Havelin, a visitor to her city, had stolen her heart and taken it back with him to his home town...
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Crossroads for Nurse Cathy
Nurse Cathy Corey was causing her beloved Dr. Bob Clinton considerable apprehension. For Cathy was on the verge of giving up nursing. Surely, Bob thought, she couldn't desert the profession which had been her whole life! But Cathy made her own cho...
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Disaster Area Nurse
The thunder roared and crashed about them -- but Nurse Lynn Lawrence felt that the wildness of the storm was rivaled by the frantic racing of her own thoughts. She cast a glance at her fiance, Greg. Beside him huddled helplessly was the pretty Dawn E...
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The Disobedient Nurse
Nurse Gwen Lansing was torn by indecision about the two men in her life. There was Bill, her childhood sweetheart. And there was the incredibly handsome Dr. Craig Marlowe. Then something happened that nearly ruined things for Gwen. Her compassion...
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Doctor's Daughter
But would she make a good wife for a daughter. Evonne Roth was a pretty young nurse with a long-cherished dream. She had patiently waited for Dr. Chris Cannon's return from medical school, and now the handsome young doctor had finally come ho...
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Dr. Barry's Nurse
Betty Roberts, R.N., was upset. Old Dr. Barry, her highly respected employer, was going to retire -- and had planned on turning over his practice to his physician-son, Mike. But that wasn't all. The old doctor was bound and determined to see ...
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Dude Ranch Nurse
New setting, New Love? Jan Gordon came to Deer River, with its dude ranches deep in the Rockies, in order to thrust aside all the unpleasant memories of the past and rediscover herself. But Jan found that as a nurse and as a woman, she couldn't turn...
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Emergency Call
The call came early one morning. Nurse Margo Preston had known one day it would…the half-expected emergency that would take her back home, back to a past she had tried to avoid, miles away from the new life which might have let her forget. Her s...
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Emergency for Nurse Selena
With the flame of unrequited love for Dr. Evan Newton still burning in her heart, Nurse Selena Smith fled from Doctors’ Hospital. Miraculously she landed a new job at the plush Crest View Nursing Home. There she hoped to find peace and prove to eve...
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The Fires of Passion
When her young son needs medical treatment she can not afford, Jan Brown decides to accept Marsh Canfield's very businesslike marriage proposal, hoping that somehow she might kindle a flame in his heart to match her own....
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Frightened Nurse
When Nurse Gwen Powell arrived at Tampa airport she caught sight of Dr. Reece Ramsey, who'd hired her for her new post. He left his car, smiling warmly, hands outstretched in greeting. A wild, sudden thought leaped into Gwen's mind: some day she was ...
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Gateway to Love
Love Was In The Cards When beautiful Cathy Chandlier flew to Las Vegas for a well-earned vacation. For charming Paul Woodfield was at the airport ready to spirit her away on a whirlwind tour of the town. And Paul was out to wine and dine Cathy ti...
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Glimpse of Paradise
Young Heather Robinson, grieved by her mother's sudden death and disillusioned by her father's mysterious abandonment of the family, takes on all family responsibilities and her father's obscure and tangled past....
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Goodbye to Yesterday
When crusty old millionaire Henry Dillard gave ten thousand rare books to the Hendricks Public Library, he commanded assistant librarian Heather Stevens to catalog them. Dillard had another job for Heather as well: find a letter lost among the books....
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Home to the Valley
Vietnam War widow Nicole returns to the valley of her childhood with her young son Todd but how can she forget his father even with three other ardent choices -- the man who's always loved her, a lawyer from the nearby city, and the Reverend Aldwin....
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House on Crow's Nest Island
Quandary Ann Clark, R.N., hoped private duty nursing would put an end to her after hours problems -- an unsuitable suitor vs. lonely hours in her empty apartment. She wanted only to have something to occupy her time. Could she also find someone at...
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Island of Mystery
Alison travels to beautiful Windswept Island to research a biography of deceased composer Thordsen, who lived and worked in what is now Greenwood Inn -- where Alison boards. By day Alison researches the composer and is courted by three young men; at ...
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Journey for a Nurse
Travel ticket to romance. Roberta Sterling, R.N., looked forward to her new job with mixed feelings. As the private nurse of the wealthy, aged Clayton Prescott, she would travel to California. When she arrived there she became involved -- almost ...
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Lake Resort Nurse
Lovely Reba Rollins, R.N., couldn't remember when she'd been so happy, so contented and pleased with life. Not only did she have an exciting job at the nearby lake resort -- but there was the promise of a love-filled future with her beloved S...
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Leave It to Nurse Kathy
Nurse Kathy Dugan arranged the surgical instruments neatly for the next operation. If only her life could be as easily put in the same shining order! Thoughts of her recently broken engagement to the wealthy Dr. Jerry Whitfield still brought an ac...
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Mountain Nurse
Had her sweetheart sent a substitute? Nurse Gwen Douglas loved the small mountain village where she worked alongside of her brother -- the only doctor in this isolated community. The only shadow in her life was the empty cabin a hundred yards away...
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New Nurse at Crest View
Nurse Selena Smith held back the tears as she handed in her resignation to Doctors’ Hospital. There was an opening at Crest View Hospital, and the change might help her forget her broken romance with Dr. Evan Newton. Selena’s new job at Crest Vie...
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Nothing But A Stranger
This is the summer that Holly Wescott: Begins planning for college in the fall Stops going steady with Bernie Mitchell Meets Tony Phillips And then uncovers a secret that threatens to shatter her life! ...
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A Nurse's New Love
Was this love in disguise -- or a threat to her future? When Nurse Delora Lambert boarded the train for Chicago, she left behind everything she knew and loved. Behind her was the unwanted sympathy of friends who told her it would only be a matter of ...
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Nurse from the Shadows
Nurse Adena York had been in love with Dr. Dave Bradfield for a long time. But every time the subject of marriage came up, Dave found some excuse to put it off. Adena became alternately depressed and exasperated. Why couldn’t Dave see that they wer...
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Nurse Jan's Troubled Loves
Jan Berkley is having problems with her personal life. Willie Brooks, her longtime boyfriend, keeps asking her to marry him, but it is handsome Dr. Steve Mitchell she dreams about. When a former colleague of Steve's, Dr. Boyd Henderson, comes to C...
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Nurse Julia's Tangled Loves
Nurse Julia Mason, pretty assistant to the aging Dr. Sam Henderson, found herself strongly attracted to Dr. Eric Dennings, Dr. Henderson's new assistant. But there was another in Julia's life: Clay Rambow, local forest ranger. Still, Julia fo...
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Nurse Lora's Love
When Nurse Lora McKay ‘s sister Gina went to Denver, Lora hoped that perhaps now, finally, handsome Dr. Paul Kemp would be interested in her. But it was not to be. Paul would always be more attracted to the dynamic Gina. To hide her disappointme...
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Nurse Marcie's Island
Heart adrift on a sea of romance. Returning home to Barr Island to practice nursing, Marcie Roberts, R.N., dreamed happily of the sunny, lazy island, the joy of being with Pop again, and the pleasure of working as old Dr. John’s office nurse. ...
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Nurse Nicole's Decision
When Stella Bennett had a stroke, Nicole Scott, R.H., rushed to nurse her old friend back to health. So absorbed did Nicole become in her patient, that she began to forget her problems with Mark, her fiance. To complicate matters, Nicole found hersel...
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Nurse on Leave
Was she headed for a heartbreak holiday? Lovely Paulette Castle, R.N., tossed her red hair defiantly. She wasn’t the first young woman to be jilted, nor would she be the last. Now she was vacationing with her best friend at a resort-hotel in the...
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Nurse on the Beach
Meg Ryan, nurse at Whitefield Memorial, was pleased with life. She had her looks, her health -- and a long series of dates with the handsome Dr. Lee Corey. But Meg's happiness was short-lived for one day she found out about Lee's interest ...
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Nurse on the Run
Davina Martin, R.N., had come to the small town of Arrow River to get away from a man she knew was no good for her, a playboy plain and simple! Now she had found a lovely cabin by the river, a good job in the local doctor's office, and Dr. Robert...
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Nurse Sue's Romance
It never occurred to Sue Conner, R.N., that she could compete with her sister Marsha. Marsha was the family beauty who led an exciting life and never lacked for a date. Sue was the serious and sensible type -- dedicated to her demanding job as a nurs...
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The Nurse from Mulberry Square
Lovely Camille Mitchell, Dr. Brewer's loyal nurse, was plunged in gloom. Her beloved doctor -- at the insurance company where both worked -- was rumored to be replaced. The new "assistant" was Dr. Devere Lydell. Tall, good-looking, Dr...
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The Nurse's Strange Romance
Meredith Michaels, R.N., had three loves in her life: nursing, and two young doctors. Dark-haired, intense Ryan Quinn she had loved since they first began training together. Steve Baxter, big, blond, full of the joy of life, had been the perfect bala...
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One More Bridge to Cross
Sara was strongly attracted to handsome bachelor,Tom Barclay, whose tall, tanned body and burning eyes were all but irresistible. But could she completely trust him, bound up as he was in the mystery of Windermere? ...
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The Other Side of the World
Ann Barker learns upon her uncle's death that he has left her with some land and possibly some diamonds. In no time at all she works up community interest in securing a new clinic to be fund-raised by a ball, and at the end she thinks twice about the...
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Promise of Tomorrow
In Arlene Hale's Promise of Tomorrow, you will meet Wynne Russell, who returned to Feather Island only to be tormented by her past. Eric Channon, who had once loved Wynne and now wanted her back again. IIsa Hethershaw, flighty young wife of the m...
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The Runaway Heart
Meet Larissa Chandler, a passionate fugitive from a past too terrible to think about. Shawn Marlow, the big, strapping cowboy who seems to be the one man capable of undoing the damage to Larissa's trampled soul -- until he learns the unsavory truth. ...
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School Nurse
The terrible secret she harbored seemed far, far away to Glenda Lloyd, R.N., now that she was school nurse at Brentwood Academy for Girls. But the Academy soon began to present problems of its own, not the least of which was the handsome art teacher,...
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The Season of Love
Meet Larina Goodwin, young and pretty, a runaway from a love affair too painful to recall. Sutton Ward, a mysterious, solitary, extremely handsome young man. Lee Tyler, ambitious and attractive theatrical director from New York. Nollie Oliver, fast-t...
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Stay With Me, Love
Struggling at 22 to keep her resort ranch solvent, Tracy Radcliffe found her life complicated by loves of which most young women could only yearningly dream. From his own ranch, handsome and wealthy Lon Morgan offered Tracy horses and whatever els...
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Symptoms of Love
Life never had seemed more exciting to Nurse Meredith Michaels than when she decided to team up with her two favorite doctors in private office practice. Being in love with dark-haired Dr. Ryan Quinn did not destroy the warmth of her friendship for D...
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University Nurse
Sara Arnold, Heights University’s dedicated resident nurse, had lost her heart to a handsome young professor, Noel Tyler. But Noel, too, had a strong sense of dedication, for many was the time he had a student -- female as well as male -- vi...
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Walk Softly, Doctor
Dr. Lynne Vicars felt the tears come to her eyes as she bent over the form of her dying father. His voice was weak. "There is a man,' he gasped. 'A man I should have warned you about many years ago.' Then his voice was still as death ...
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When Love Returns
WHEN LOVE RETURNS it's bound to bring problems with it. In quiet little Grover Hill, Jill Adams and ambitious Loel Richards were in love and had already found their dream house; but suddenly Loel left and Jill turned to business to forget. Then Loel ...
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Where the Heart Is
Sondra had come home to the small town that held so many memories but Lewiston didn't seem like home anymore. The house she grew up in had been torn down to make way for a highway. Her parents were gone. And Cleve Ridgeway -- the man she had loved so...
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The Winds of Summer
Fleur Lansing was happy in her job as a sociology teacher at Mitchell University. Vivacious, self-assured, she was a young woman to whom success came easily and for whom life, despites its occasional setbacks and disappointments, was glowing with pro...
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A Nurse for Sand Castle
When her doctor fiance was killed while serving in Vietnam, lovely nurse Leah West wanted only to forget. Gratefully she accepted an assignment to care for a child seriously injured in an auto accident, for it meant going to live in an isolated mansi...
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Private Hospital
Lovely, vibrant Lesley Allen, R.N., had always enjoyed her work at Seton Memorial Hospital -- that is, until young Eric Seton took over. Almost unwillingly she was attracted to the startlingly handsome doctor -- yet every time they met, they would en...
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Orphanage Nurse
Young, attractive Christine Morgan became a nurse with one end in view -- to work at Maple Crest, where she had been raised as an orphan after her parents’ tragic death. There were delightful youngsters in need of loving care at Maple Crest. There ...
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Holiday to Fear
When lovely Eve Hathaway boarded a plane for sun-drenched White Beach Island, she was seeking refuge from all cares and complications of the heart. But that hope swiftly faded at the isolated resort. Waiting for her was charming half-Irish, half-L...
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The New Nurses
Lynn Lawrence and Bobbi Wagner vowed to forget Chicago and devote themselves entirely to their nursing careers. Lynn was white, Bobbi black and Quiet Fairview General Hospital seemed an “island of contentment” until… Dr. Paul Hamilton appear...
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Special Duty
When Dr. Taylor assigned her to special duty, lovely auburn-haired Margo McKim felt a sense of pride -- and also relief. Perhaps if she poured all her energy into her work, there would be no time left to brood over a love that was lost...but not forg...
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Dark Flames
Public relations was lovely Tracy Brandell’s profession, but private relationships began to take first place in her life when the young career girl took the job of handling publicity for an elegant new supper club, the Uptown. The club owner, su...
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The Secret Longing
Pretty Katharine Juno should have been the happiest of young women. As resident nurse at a luxury hotel in a western mountain resort, she combined her chosen career with the active outdoor life she adored. As a bonus, the handsome hotel manager, Stev...
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The Shining Mountain
When spirited Willa Quentin's father dies, she vows to hold on to the Double Q ranch -- determined somehow to earn the money she needs to meet the next mortgage payment. All the men in the valley smugly warn her that running a ranch was too m...
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The Reunion
Beautiful Diane Gray had been inconsolable ever since the mysterious death of her college sweetheart, Johnny Stanton. Now, as she drove to an exclusive ski resort for a reunion with old friends of hers and Johnny’s, she felt the unhealed wounds of ...
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The Reluctant Heart
Pretty young Heather Markin was ripe for rebellion when she graduated from high school. Orphaned as a child, Heather had been raised by her well-meaning but overprotective uncle. Now she was eager to break free to meet the challenges of life and love...
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Tender Harvest
Johanna Marsh knew it was simply crazy -- to give up a glamorous modeling career and return to her small home town. But Johanna had always followed her heart, not her head, and now that the family farm she loved was threatened, Johanna vowed to save ...
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Midnight Nightmare
Close ties bound lovely Jan Kellogg to her sister Gail, The two were identical twins, and in some strange way knew each other's feelings without a word being spoken. Now Jan sensed guilt and fear tormenting her sister, and she had to find the reason ...
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The Divided Heart
Young and pretty Meredith York deeply loved children, and her new job at the posh Rainbow Acres Day Care Center seemed ideal. But all too soon, Meredith realized that this place of sunlit beauty was no haven from adult perplexities and perils. Meredi...
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Dangerous Yesterdays
A stolen Stradivarius violin, worth a king's ransom, shattered the harmony of Deborah Sherwood's life. Suddenly the young high school music teacher could trust no one as she hunted the thief. Could he be Terry Hoyt, the good-looking disc j...
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Perilous Weekend
When pretty Laura Gordon and her best friend Tish Winston were invited to Max Bradfield's fabulous Wildwood estate, the prospects for the weekend seemed bright. Not only was the occasion a happy one -- the wedding of Max's young niece -- but ...
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Dr. Myra Comes Home
With an office off Park Avenue, a partnership with two established male doctors, Myra Fielding, heart specialist, felt that she had arrived as a doctor. Then Doctor Sam, who had staked her to medical school, came to New York and laid his case before ...
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Share Your Heart
Pretty young Barbara Brent was dedicated to teaching -- too much so for her own good, according to her handsome fellow high school teacher, Kermit Quincy. Kermit wanted her to open her heart to romance, instead of focusing all her emotions on her stu...
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Stranger on the Beach
Lynn Haines wanted to get away from it all. From her wealthy fiance and his maddening possessiveness. From her parents, who treated her painting as a childish hobby. From the ceaseless round of parties that kept her from her work. From the ceaseless ...
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The Lady Is a Nurse
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...
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The Reluctant Stranger
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...
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The Girl From Sherman Oaks
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...