A gypsy had told Charlotte a number of curious things concerning her future -- and certainly they all seemed to fit the situation in which she found herself at Thurlanger House....
When Carolyn Burne lost her fiance 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 interesting job as private secretary to the ...
When Guy was killed, Sue's happy life became meaningless and empty. Then Jeremy Reston, the hospital's Senior Surgical Officer, caused thoughts of romance to creep unbidden into her mind again. Was it just be-cause he reminded her of Guy? And what...
Rosamond knew she would never forget the pain of an unhappy romantic episode as long as she went on working in the hospital where it had all happened. In different surroundings and with a new routine, she was sure she would be too occupied to brood. ...
'You ought to stop feeling sorry for yourself! - That's pediatrician Simon Harraday's advice to Nurse Vicky Jardine. But how can she, when all her life she's lived in the shadow of her beautiful sister Marina, who's so brilliant, so successful? Goade...
Having flown four thousand miles to the remote and arid state in Central Africa where she is to work as a midwife, Kate Raven feels quite satisfied that she has left her family problems wee and truly behind her. So imagine her displeasure when she st...
Student Nurse Cherry Langton thought of herself as ordinary looking and as a junior she had the constant feeling that a nurse's place was in the wrong. Cherry knew that the extraordinarily attractive new eye consultant, Mr Ashley Treneager, had any ...
“She really is appallingly pain, poor girl, isn’t she? One wonders why she doesn’t do something about herself!” That devastating remark by Dr. James MacNeil had sent poor Ruth scurrying away from St. Joseph’s Hospital. But now, a year later...
Since it was through Dr. Justin Baroni's actions that Vivien had lost her job, it seemed only fair that he should find her another, nursing his small nephew through glandular fever; and traveling to Malta, all expenses paid, to do it! But it was disc...
This innovative multicultural reader gathers together diaries, histories, autobiographies, short stories, and excerpts from novels to bring the many facets of the American experience to life, from sixteenth-century explorations to this century's ongo...