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Eileen Norah Owbridge was born on 8 September 1903, she lived in Preston, Sussex, England, and passed away on 4 February 1994. Under the pseudonym Jane Arbor she wrote over 55 romance novel for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985. She started writing doctor-nurse romances, and many have been reedited with diferent titles, that included the words "nurse", "doctor" or "surgeon". Later, she focused her writing in foreign settings like the continental Europe, the Caribbean, Morocco...
"A woman driver, of course!" had been Dr. Richard Guyse's impatient inward comment as he braked and swerved to avoid a collision with the open car door of the unknown but attractive young girl. He wondered briefly who she was and then pro...
She felt she belonged here. Joanna knew better than to indulge her feelings when she was nursing, but at Carrieghmere this Irish family and its problems had involved her from the very beginning. "It's like a place I've been homesick for all my life,"...
When Nurse Sarah Sanstead inherited an old house in the country and decided to turn it into a convalescent home for children, she did not guess the complications which would ensue. Her new neighbour, the surgeon Oliver Mansbury, wanted the house as...
When Nurse Joanna Merivale went to Ireland to nurse Roger Carnehill, it was at first just another job to her. But in that job her first thought was to give of her best -- something that looked like being impossible in the household full of emotiona...
A chance encounter, but it brought aventure and romance of a lifetime.......
When Lyn Atholl's fiance abruptly broke their engagement only a month before the day fixed for their wedding, she felt that the shock had disrupted her whole life. She could not bear the thought of resuming her dearly-loved profession of nursing -- s...
Adam blamed her for Steven's illness. More than anything it mattered to Kathryn that Adam Brand should judge her fairly. How could he condemn her for refusing to marry his best friend and move to Africa? After all, she didn't love Steven. ...
Work had been her cure for sorrow Ursula Craig had not always meant to be a nurse; once she had hoped to be a loving wife to Denis. But Denis had died, and Ursula had buried her broken heart in work. When Dr. Matthew Lingard, the hospital's new sur...
Work had been her cure for sorrow Ursula Craig had not always meant to be a nurse; once she had hoped to be a loving wife to Denis. But Denis had died, and Ursula had buried her broken heart in work. When Dr. Matthew Lingard, the hospital's ne...
Gillian Harlowe, staff nurse at St. Ranulph's Hospital, had told herself over and over again that it was sheer folly for her to fall in love with that distinguished surgeon, Adrian Pilgrim, whose interest in her was obviously confined to approval of ...
Whatever he wanted, Muir usually got. Even before she knew who he was, Jess Mawney learned that Muir Forester was unusually strong willed. Now she was practically living on the doorstep of this man, a man she might reasonably have hoped never to see ...
Whatever he wanted, Muir usually got. Even before she knew who he was, Jess Mawney learned that Muir Forester was unusually strong willed. Now she was practically living on the doorstep of this man, a man she might reasonably have hoped never to see ...
Bridget had enough problems. An attractive but unconventional -- and, it seemed, quarrelsome -- tenant; a sister in love with the wrong man; the responsibility of someone else's children; and more besides. How she coped with these difficulties is tol...
District nursing gave Tessa a new start -- but that didn't take away her disappointment over losing Doctor Girling at her old hospital. Then Dr. Neil Callender, with his constant help in crises, made her realize that the best of life was still to...
One short letter changed her life! After the death of her parents; Vivien was shocked to receive a formally worded note from the grandmother she had never known while her parents lived. It seemed that with their deaths the family quarrel was forgo...
At twenty-eight, Rachel had for a long time taken it for granted that she was destined to remain single. She had made a quiet life for herself, living with her family and helping to run their lovely country home, and she was reasonably content. But a...
One by one her dreams faded away Emma Redfern had arrived in Tangier full of hope -- but now she was alone, abandoned by Guy, the man she had traveled so far to marry! Or could it be that fate had merely used her, lured her to Tangier for the s...
Liz had not wanted to go to Tasghala. Her father's summons to join him at his desert posting was a punishment to Liz, indicating his disapproval of her London life-style. Then she realized the loneliness his life's work had forced upon him an...
A fortune-teller had once told Glanna that she had a great gift for loving, but what was the use of having a loving heart, thought Glanna sadly, when she had no one to love? Here she was, at the tender age of seventeen, consigned to the guardianship ...
You could hardly have a more uninspiring name than hers, Mary Smith thought gloomily. And when you are burdened, into the bargain, with a decidedly unglamorous appearance and a quiet, mouselike personality, you might just as well give up trying -- at...
Did love always bring only sorrow and pain? After the death of her fiancé, a racing driver, in an accident, Sue Nightingale found herself the target of hurtful criticism and gossip. It was whispered that, by jilting him and sending him broken-hea...
Caroline Neville doubted the wisdom of her Aunt Clio's request for her to go without delay to the South of France and keep an eye on her cousin Betsy, on holiday there. But Aunt Clio was convinced that her daughter had fallen into the clutches of...
After the break-up of her romance with Greg Ryder, Nurse Martha Shore decided that the best thing to do was to get away from it all. Which she did with a vengeance when she accepted Doctor Jude Tarleton's offer of a post at his tiny hospital east...
Duty brought her home; would love keep her? It was a great sacrifice for Kate Ruthven to give up her job in London and return to her Irish lakeside home to care for an ailing father -- so it was particularly unfair when Basil, whom she had hoped t...
When Rose arranged to look after her aunt's small shop in a village in the South of France, she found it was necessary to get the permission of the seigneur Monsieur Saint-Guy before she could even trade -- and he sounded like a belted earl. It w...
It was so awkward -- and infuriating! It was no easy task for a young man to take over as head of an old school like Clere, but some of Daniel Wyatt's methods were a little too much for Verity to take...especially when her own father had been ...
When Laurel volunteered to look after a friend's boarding kennels for the summer she expected to be kept busy -- but what made the whole thing really difficult was the obstructive attitude of the landlord, Clive March, and his still more unpleasant g...
In ancient times, one of the twelve labours of Hercules was to go to 'Golden Apple Island', the garden of Hesperides -- better known to us today as the Canary Islands -- and bring back a "golden apple", or orange . In our own day, so ...
Loraine had always been deeply interested in, and worked hard for, the family glass business, Lairge Chrystal, and it was a shock when, on her stepfather's death, she learned that it had been left, not to her, but to an unknown nephew, Ross Frere...
It was through young Michele that Alix first met the wealthy Parigi family -- but it was with his dominating older brother Leone that she was to have the stormiest relationship! ************************************** Mills & Boon Perhaps if Al...
When Craig Carolan, grudgingly, gave Adair the job of governess to his young ward in Tunisia, he warned her "If you've a head full of starry-eyed notions about the romance' of the desert, you need disillusioning on that..." But Adair was not the sort...
For various reasons, Nicola was having to masquerade as the sister of Kurt Thesige. It was a worrying situation, as, quite apart from the ever-present danger that her deception would be discovered, she soon realized that her feelings for him were far...
Virginia had never expected to inherit the prosperous wine business in The Rhineland -- but the manager, Ingram Ashe, refused to believe that her motives were anything but mercenary. She could only hope that in time she could make him change his mi...
Rosalie Donne, social hostess at the hotel at Hassi Ai'n, had not behaved very well as far as her boss, Randal Quest, was concerned. She had been very far from up to her work, she had eventually eloped with Randal's brother -- and she had don...
"We seek the unattainable" was Raoul Leduc's family motto -- but it might more aptly have been Maryan's. For she was the one who was seeking in vain for the land which her father had always felt belonged to him, but in fact was R...
In any other circumstances Honor would have been thrilled to be going to the lovely Pacific island of Grand'terre. But it was the family home of Piers Sabre, who had just cruelly jilted her and whom she only wanted to forget. How ironic that the fi...
She mustn't let her love override reason. Ruth had lived in and loved Rome for several years, so when she was offered a job which involved teaching a bright young teenager like Cicely to know and love it too, she didn’t think it seemed parti...
The last request that Maria Dane's mother had made was that she should travel to Corsica to meet the aunt she had never seen. There she met her aunt and was enchanted with the island. Maria had often wondered why her mother had never spoken of th...
Alice's best friend who worked as Warden of a children's home in Morocco had not got on well with the landlord. "Whether this is because he is a woman-hater or just anti-social, your guess is as good as mine," she wrote to warn Alice ...
Jonnet was not particularly looking forward to her visit to Amsterdam in the middle of winter, even if it did mean a reunion with her brother and the chance to heal the family quarrel when she met her aunt Grethe. To find out that everyone apparen...
When her engagement to Bruno Cavour fell through, Clare was offered a job by the attractive Italian, Tarquin Roscuro. Thoughts of Bruno soon faded when she fell in love with Tarquin -- but alas, he seemed no more interested in marrying her than Br...
Donna went out to a small Caribbean island to check up on her uncle Wilmot's banana plantation, which wasn't doing as well as it should. Her uncle blamed the situation on his enemy and neighbor, Elyot Vance. Vance was certainly a forceful cha...
There is a charming superstition in the little wine-growing town of St. Emilion -- if an unmarried girl drops two pins into the fountain and the pins form a cross, she will be married within the year. But it seemed the magic of the patron saint was n...
Cesare Vidal's attitude left Dinah silently fuming. He'd shifted responsibility for the twins to her shoulders and apparently had no interest in them -- even though they were his cousins. Maybe she should have been flattered, but she would...
Hope Redmond anticipated few problems when she traveled to the West Indian Island of Madenina to take over the job her spoilt cousin Tina had failed so dismally. But when she encountered her new employer, the domineering Craig Napier, she realized...
Karl was a challenge she couldn't ignore! Reluctantly, Juliet prepared to leave Silbersee, and the Bavarian wood-carving school that had been her second home. Then Karl Adler came storming into the place and Juliet changed her mind. In Karl...
It had seemed the perfect job for her And Cleo had thanked the kind fate that had brought her to this glamorous holiday resort on sunny Corsica. But she soon discovered that there was a thorn among the flowers. The thorn was Luc Vidame, handsom...
"I will marry the first man who asks!" Sara made her reckless statement in a moment of hurt and pique after being jilted by Cliff Iden. And for better or worse, the man listening asked her. Rede Forrest had said her desire to "show&...
A dream of love or a nightmare of revenge? Una Keith's sudden marriage to Greek artist Zante Diomed seemed like a dream come true... until she learned she was merely a pawn. Una's testimony had caused Zante's young cousin to be conv...
Tara knew she was being used Dracon Leloupblanc had tricked Tara into an engagement, hoping his infatuated cousin would lose hope of Tara and return to his fiancee. And if that failed, Dracon intended to marry Tara! Normally the prospect of mar...
Bad memories were best left buried The luxurious Caribbean cruise was a onetime extravagance -- supposed to help Lauren forget the past and build a new life. Instead it brought her face to face with the unhappiest part of that past -- Dale Rans...
Vicente was master of a lost art... Tania obeyed her father's last request: she contacted the Venetian glassmakers, the Massimos. And Benno Massimo whisked her away from an empty life in England, bringing her to the family villa -- as his fian...
Had their love died with their marriage? Fern had refused to tramp the outposts of the world with her roving oil executive husband, Grant Wilder. So they separated. She hadn't seen him in almost three years -- until her father tricked her...
Revenge was a dangerous game! Until an intriguing ad led her to financial wizard Cabot Steele, Danielle had despaired of ever avenging her aunt's death. Steele had devastated her family, and he would be made to pay! Danielle had been hired ...
Could she explain the child that never was -- Rowan's husband Leone Cortese, before he was killed, told his aristocratic Italian family that she had given birth to a baby boy. An heir to the vast Cortese estate. Only it wasn't true. An...
Wedding day. Wedding night ... Yesterday she had been Tamar Rosse; today she was Tamar d'Urbain ... What had she done? Standing at the window to their hotel suite, Tamar answered herself. She had gone to Juste d'Urbain, her landlord, and ...