Stella Hantleys promising career as a dancer had been shattered five years earlier by a friends cruel selfishness. But Stella had put regret behind her and changed careers. Now, in India as a nurse-companion to Miss Jellings, Stella felt that shed fo...
She was sure she'd never attract a man. No one, Catherine was convinced, would be interested in the quiet mouselike creature that she saw herself as. So she took herself off to become a foster mother in a children's home. Andrew Playdle, howe...
"Your opinion means nothing to me!" Sheila had chosen the cottage in Bishop's Merrow for the peace and calm essential to her brother's recovery after an air crash. So it was a shock to find that the house next door was being turned into a home for ...
Can one bury the past? Put it behind one forever? Nurse Stella Hantley, traveling in India as secretary-nurse to kind Miss Jellings, would have answered “Yes” to that question. She found it hard to believe that she had ever danced on the stag...
"By the way, Miss Burmayne, your knight-errant is a doctor -- and a bit of a woman-hater, I'm afraid, for all his knightly behavior. When I went to look at the table-lists in the dining-saloon just now, I actually heard him asking the Chief Steward i...
That foggy London morning, when someone tried to snatch her handbag, was to have far-reaching consequences for Nurse Maura O'Shea, sending her winging across the seas to a new life in the sunny West Indies. It was indeed a far cry from the renowne...
That foggy London morning, when someone tried to snatch her handbag, was to have far-reaching consequences for Nurse Maura O'Shea, sending her winging across the seas to a new life in the sunny West Indies. It was indeed a far cry from the renowne...
Bryony went to work in the glamorous surroundings of the West Indies -- but still found herself with the age-old problem of how to discourage the man who didn't interest her, and how to attract the one who did!...
At their first meeting, Julian accused Sylvia of being a common little adventuress. He soon realized his mistake, and tried to make amends. But it was too late. The damage was done, and Sylvia's pride bitterly hurt. Would he ever be able to make her ...
It was two years since Laurence de Windt had hurt and humiliated Debbie, and now she was home again she was still determined to avoid him. But as his small orphaned nephew needed her so much, wasn't this going to be rather difficult?...
Life after their parents' death had been none too happy for Irene and her nine year old sister, with a grudging aunt and uncle making it quite clear that the girls were nothing but a burden to them - so when their grandmother invited them to go a...
Val Fleury -- Vale of Flowers -- in the West Indies Island of Santa Rita was an idyllic home for Penny Foster. Its bliss was marred for Penny, however, when she learned that her stepsister Gloria was descending on the island. It was not only that...
Diana Morton had gone to Cyprus to escape. Her life with Ralph had ended tragically and with bitterness, and it was hard to believe she could ever be interested in a man again. But soon she was to become involved with more than one man -- with George...