Alice Borden was just an average, happy New York girl living an average, happy life when the sudden illness of her mother changed the whole course of her existence. At the suggestion of the family doctor, Alice took her mother south to St. Petersburg...
Nurse Anne Osgood of Surgery 1, Buttrick Hospital was horribly startled one afternoon when the chief surgeon collapsed at his desk. Despite his threats to break her professionally if she breathed a word about the incident, Anne told all--and came alm...
Store detective Elizabeth Parker was a fan of television crime writer and producer Robert Foye. She marveled that a layman could write so knowledgeably of professional criminals. However, she stopped marveling when she caught him stealing from a disp...
Can Art and Ideals Destroy Love? Eileen Macauley had what most girls dream of -- a handsome, wealthy manufacturer, Dan Hyland, in love with her and a job at the Duffie Memorial Foundation of Fine Arts. Her job brought her into daily contact with t...
Only four miserly years from forty, all Casey Jinks has to show for her thirty-six years is a non-messy divorce, three boys, a flea-ridden mongrel and an amputee cat. Add an overdraft, a rusty Toyota past its 'sell by' date and no love life worth men...
Nurse Gerry Staley encourages the attentions of the young man who offers emotional security while denying her feelings for the doctor who employs her. ...
As a lady detective, Beverly Crane was persistent and skillful enough to establish the guilt of a suspected embezzler and turn him over to the police; as a result of the reputation she acquired by this, she was assigned to an Indiana manufacturing co...
When pretty Dorothy Malloy left Buttrick Hospital to become wealthy Andrew Bossart's private nurse, her orderly world changed overnight. Young and handsome, Andrew Bossart was recovering from an accidental gunshot wound. His reputation as a danger...
She followed her heart -- even though it meant facing danger. The scream of tortured tires, an echoing crash, an overturned automobile… Within crowded seconds, the overindulged scion of the prominent Hauser family lay on the brink of death. ...
“You may as well know what everyone else knows,” the associate nurse told Anne. “JULIA STOPE IS OUT TO GET YOUR JOB AND YOUR MAN!” Lovely young Anne Burr thought she had achieved everything when she was appointed supervising nurse of Ward ...
Gerry Staley, R.N. loved the sleek elegance of the society doctor’s office but her conscience told her there was more to nursing than caring for the imagined ills of the rich. Then, when diamond-in-the-rough Tom Covert demanded an answer and sel...
Love on a Houseboat It was the scandal of the season when world famous actress Andrea Lawrence stalked out of a Broadway hit to go home to THE QUIET CORNER. Home, where sister Barbara would share her houseboat, her hospitality -- and Hugh. Andr...
ALL OR NOTHING Successful businessman Stan Livermore delivered his ultimatum to Nurse Jane Kemp: either she abandon her career to become a full-time wife, or they must forget each other. But as a desperately needed nurse, Jane wanted to be a pe...
Bess Hartley was eager to help under-privileged youngsters with tennis even though she could no longer compete professionally. When Bess took teenager Karen Skewes under her wing, she never dreamed that the scheming girl would be so consumed with amb...
It was the scandal of the season when world-famous actress Andrea Lawrence stalked out of a Broadway hit to go home again. Home to her sister, Barbara, who would share everything with her - from her warm hospitality to handsome Hugh Robards. But the ...
Gwen Cunningham was proud of the position she held with the Tomlinson radio station. For while the station was small, it had standards of public service; it stood for good music, unblased presentation of the news, and honest advertising. Therefore th...
When Betty Rice of the Redwood Valley Star launched her campaign to protect the bluejay, native to the valley, from thoughtless hunters, she expected some opposition -- but hardly a "war." There were the usual cancellations and anonymous phon...
Bess Hartley was eager to help under-privileged youngsters with tennis even though she could no longer compete professionally. When Bess took teenager Karen Skewes under her wing, she never dreamed that the scheming girl would be so consumed with amb...
Cecilia was good at her work with the Mounted Police. But when she was transferred away from the life and the man she loved, she thought her happy life was over. If only Cecelia Mary Noonan had been born a boy instead of a girl, she would have bee...