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Jane Rossiter
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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: 7 titles
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Summer Season
- 1962
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Was she ready to give up a safe job and a steady boyfriend for a lifelong career on stage? What Would the Future Bring? Betty Kent had the dream, the talent, the will for hard work--her ten weeks at the East Bay Playhouse just had to be gloriou...
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Backstage Nurse
- Jan-1963
- / Romantic Suspense
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Her role was behind the scenes --- until the curtain went up on her triangle romance. Nurse Shirley accompanies an elderly actor, a brave and likable man, who has been battling cancer on a tour for the play in which he has the starring role. Alon...
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Beth Comes Home
- 1964
- / Gothic
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First Ron and now Dennis...what was the matter with her, Beth wondered? What made her fall in love with a man, and then send him awaY/ Love Remembered... Beth Hale hated to leave Boston and the handsome Dennis Mullaney with who she had fallen i...
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Summer Star
- 1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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When struggling young actress Gale Strong joined the cast of the Playhouse, she thought she would be spending all her free time with her fiancé Eric Lane. But it didn't work out that way, Eric had little time for Gale. He was too busy advancing ...
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To Know and to Love
- Jan-1966
- / Romantic Suspense
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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...
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Love Is a Riddle
- Jan-1967
- / Romantic Suspense
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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......
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