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Margaret O'Neill
Margaret was determined to be a writer. This career had to be put on hold for many years whilst she earned a living doing her next most favorite thing—nursing. To some small extent she was able to fulfill her desire to write by producing hospital magazines, but she longed to get down to the real thing.
Margaret married at 26, had two children, and so that she could stay at home with them and care for her invalid mother, she bought a large country house and opened it as a private nursing home. With her husband's help, she continued to run the home for many years until she retired. It was when she retired that she realized she could at last concentrate on writing.
Margaret continues to write in her fascinating hundred-year-old house in Sussex. "The house that Jack built," she calls it. It has great character, with beamed ceilings and alcoved fireplaces and unexpected nooks and crannies. Her desk and computer fit into a wide window area facing south that looks out over a large, wild garden that in spring is full of daffodils, snowdrops, crocuses, and flowering shrubs.
Multi-Author Series List
Love on Call
No Longer a Stranger (Jan-1995)Book List in Order: 25 titles
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Cottage Hospital
- Aug-1991
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Too much seemed to be happening at once! Standing in for Matron was a challenge, but Sister Clare Browning also had to learn to work with a new MO. Dr. Roland Hunter had gone down with a heart attack, ad his son Tom, home from India, was stepping in ...
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Question of Honour
- Dec-1991
- / Contemporary Romance
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Dr Gregory Hurst, medical director of Princes Park Hospital, had argued strongly against another senior-level administrative nursing post being created, and consequently made life hard for Erica Lang when she began her new job. Erica was honest enoug...
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Doctor on Skye
- Mar-1992
- / Contemporary Romance
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Professor James MacDonald, an eniment plastic surgeon, had been injured by a bomb blast during a guerilla attack in Sri Lanka. Temporarily blinded, he went home to Skye to recuperate. Not suffering fools gladly, he was not happy about accepting the a...
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In Safe Hands
- Nov-1992
- / Contemporary Romance
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It wasn’t easy for Practice Nurse Amy Kincaid, holding down a full-time job at the local Health Center, as well as guiding her sister Belinda through college and mothering eight-year-old Jenny. Life didn’t get any easier with the arrival of the n...
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Seeds of Love
- Feb-1993
- / Contemporary Romance
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Ex-nurse Toni King left medicine after a trauma, taking refuge in the country quietly running her grandfather's gardening business. A chance meeting with the locum Dr Rupert Devenish started the healing process, and gradually the scars of the past fa...
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Christmas Is Forever
- Dec-1993
- / Contemporary Romance
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Staff Nurse Poppy Pope had a special affinity with children, and being given the chance to fill in at the popular pediatrics unit at Princes Park Hospital was like a dream come true. Her immediate boss would be the new senior registrar, Dr. Nicholas ...
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Never Past Loving
- Jan-1994
- / Contemporary Romance
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Dr Gregory Hurst, medical director of Princes Park Hospital, had argued strongly against another senior-level administrative nursing post being created, and consequently made life hard for Erica Lang when she began her new job. Erica was honest enoug...
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Long Hot Summer
- Feb-1994
- / Contemporary Romance
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Staff Nurse Babs Becker-Brown knew she was going to love being part of the bright young team running the new rehabilitation unit at Princes Park Hospital. From a professional viewpoint she found the unit’s innovative approach tremendously exciting....
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Take a Deep Breath
- Mar-1994
- / Contemporary Romance
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‘I want to get to know the real you. Not the efficient Sister Manning, but the delicious, desirable Julia!’ Princes Park Hospital’s accident and emergency consultant, Luke Steel, was a charmer par excellence. And to managing sister Julia Manni...
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No Longer a Stranger
- Jan-1995
- / Contemporary Romance
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Four years ago, nurse Chloe Lucas had considered herself happily married. Then her live had fallen apart. Chloe had rebuilt it, alone, throwing herself into her career, becoming senior nurse and manager of Chidhurst Health Centre. However, when hands...
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Downland Clinic
- Oct-1995
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sister Daisy Marchment was delighted with her new post at Featherstone Hall Clinic, populary known as the Downland Clinic, until she found the new medical officer was Dr. Adam Torrance, best friend of her late husband. Daisy had left Matthew when the...
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Generous Heart
- Dec-1995
- / Contemporary Romance
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Imogen Moore knew she was taking a risk, giving up her nursing career to look after Aunt Sophie in her illness, but her godmother had always been so good to her, how could Imogen refuse to help? She hadn’t anticipated having to cope with Sophie’s...
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More Than Skin-deep
- Nov-1996
- / Contemporary Romance
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Looking beyond the surface Nurse Phoebe Palmer found her new job in a Sussex convalescent home the perfect way to escape a disastrous relationship, only to find herself falling head over heels in love with her charismatic boss, Dr Josh Richmond. She...
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A Cautious Loving
- Jun-1997
- / Contemporary Romance
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Was Thomas overreacting to the beautiful Miranda? Dr. Thomas Brodie was astonished to see that Miranda Gibbs was applying for the position as nurse manager at his Combe Minister practice. She was beautiful, intelligent and diligent at her job â€" so...
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Double Trouble
- Mar-1998
- / Contemporary Romance
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She had to stop behaving like an ostrich! Since the break-up of her marriage Sister Kate Brown had devoted herself to work and bringing up her twins. The arrival of the new medical director, Dr. James Bruce, greatly disturbed then even tenor of her ...
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The Practice Wife
- Nov-1998
- / Contemporary Romance
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A new life… Maddy’s friends had told her that she must be mad to leave London to work in St. Kellier, a small Cornish town. Maddy had had her doubts too until she saw the place, it was beautiful, and Maddy felt instantly ‘at home’. A new love...
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The Patient Man
- Jan-1999
- / Contemporary Romance
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Friends, neighbors … and lovers? Harry Paradine, consultant to St. Luke’s A and E, had remained a bachelor despite the best efforts of his friends to find a wife for him. He as a patient man, sure the right woman would come along â€" but when sh...
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Family Concern
- Dec-1999
- / Contemporary Romance
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For Gemma Fellows and her six-year-old daughter, Daisy, the cottage in the country left to them by a great-aunt is a godsend. It’s a new start after then debacle of her marriage, and when the local practice needs a nurse it seems Gemma will fit rig...
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Nurse Friday
- Jun-2000
- / Contemporary Romance
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Starting work for Dr. Oliver Pendragon was a great relief for Jessica Friday after the traumas of the past eighteen months. What she didn’t expect was to feel a more than passing interest in Oliver himself! An interest it was clear he returned. But...
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Guardian Heart
- Nov-2000
- / Contemporary Romance
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Is he being fair...? Holly Brown has just begun to date Ben Harvey, in what they call a happy friendship, when he vanishes on compassionate leave. Returning to work, he's no longer the happy-go-lucky man she knew -- he's now guardian to his small or...
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Wrapped in Tinsel
- Dec-2000
- / Contemporary Romance
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Christmas is a time for giving … second chances It was ten years since Nan Winters had seen Callum Mackinstosh, and their parting hadn’t been pleasant. Now he was back in her life, dropping out a helicopter in snowbound Cornwall, dressed in red ...
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Gentle Touch
- Mar-2001
- / Contemporary Romance
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The doctor’s dilemma… When Jeremy Grant is asked to try and persuade the new A&E sister to let him treat a small facial scar Jeremy feels sure he can win her over. Until he meets her… As a teenager he’d once admired Veronica Lord; as a man ...
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A Nurse to Trust
- Oct-2001
- / Contemporary Romance
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The doctor's nurse When nurse Clare Summers takes a new job as a nurse, she knows it will be a challenge, but she doesn't realize that Dr. Dan Davis will add to it so much. There is an immediate chemistry between them, and an immediate tension. ...
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Doctor in Need
- Apr-2002
- / Contemporary Romance
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The newcomer… Nurse Fiona McFie was damned is she was going to let Dr. Tom Cameron walk over her, not after she’d managed Drummock’s medical needs for so long. And the uneasy attraction that simmered between them made Fiona want to fight him e...