Fall in the old town of Saint Augustine, Florida, was hot, and it felt even warmer to young Victoria Allen, a young Canadian actress-nurse who had been recruited from her native Toronto to star in a historical play entitled The Hate Necklace. Based o...
All her life Vicki Kane had been ignored by her eccentric, reclusive grandmother. The stubborn matriarch had never wanted to see her granddaughter, not even once. So the lovely young girl was shocked to learn that upon her death the wealthy old woman...
Cody Curlette was only staying in Wyoming a short time. She would help her brother and sister-in-law get the newest branch of the family retail store chain under way in Eagleton. Then she would return home to Philadelphia. And it was silly for Cody t...
Sesame Hunter, a bright young college student was attracted to dynamic Lew Cadman the night she met him at a square dance. Then, in the days that followed, she lost her heart to him. Yet from the start Sesame knew Lew was off limits to her. For he c...
There was always an excitement in the air when the college kids took their spring break from school around the Florida town where Cammie Larrison helped her father at his animal hospital. But this year it was something more than the college break tha...
Lori Stuart met Scott Harrington when she was buying her kid sister a special birthday present. And the handsome young lawyer certainly brought excitement to Lori's life. He also brought exciting news to her quiet Illinois prairie town: it's ...
A sprawling eighty-room mansion was no place for a girl from the Everglades who was used to an alligator as a “pet,” but that’s where Rebecca Royce found herself when she agreed to be private nurse to ninety-six-year-old Mrs. Granville. Suddenl...
Chestnut-haired Galen Nelson was on her way to the Cremonton Indian reservation when she received the call on the mobile telephone in her van: Holsteins at Andrew Banister's dairy farm were sick. To the diminutive Galen, a veterinarian specializi...
He was one of the handsomest, wealthiest, most successful men in Florida -- and newspaper reporters called him “Garth the Shark.” His world of glamour and excitement was a far cry from the world of Nurse Maggie McCloud, whose biggest fulfillmen...
Young Mariah Callahan knew Alex de Haven, the wealthy polo player, had not caused the troubles at the Callahan Horse Farm. She realized it was not his fault she and her brother were bankrupt. But secretly Mariah blamed Alex. She hated him because he ...
Each May the Apple Blossom Festival awoke the sleepy Indiana town of Terom, casting a magical spell of excitement over everyone. And this year no one looked forward to it more than Libby Wilmot, emergency medical technician. The festival meant Domini...
Tara Stanley had never thought of herself as being impulsive. But one moment she was engaged to handsome Ronald Vandermark, and then she suddenly decided that he was far too devoted to his demanding mother. So she left for the Florida Keys to become ...
Shandra Clinton would never understand Quince Morgan. One moment she felt sure that she and the handsome young forester shared a special love--that they could even communicate from a distance by looking at the same star in the sky. And in the next mo...
Nurse Sky MacQueen was excited. For the first time in thirty years Mount Juliet Hospital was getting a face-lifting. And in addition to impressive new buildings and ultramodern equipment, the hospital was acquiring a new surgeon. Although a native Am...
Caring for a rapidly weakening old recluse on isolated Staghead Key was almost more responsibility than Holly Wilde wanted. Heretofore the recently capped young nurse had worked in the sterile-white security of a Miami hospital. Nothing in her experi...
The tempestuous elopement of a Pennsylvania soldier and a beautiful Florida girl of Spanish descent was responsible for Francesca Hoffman's strange inheritance more than a century later. Although pretty hazel-eyed Fran had been raised in Pennsylv...
India Stafford had not worked very long for Stafford Realty in Opelona, Georgia. She had accepted no favoritism from her father, and he had given none. She had to prove herself by first educating herself at the university and then starting at the bot...
Young Merry Parker, a professional deep-sea diver, adored her business partner, Cadell Gwyn. But Cadell had no time for any girl. He devoted his whole life to his work, diving for the fascinating, valuable treasures on the ocean’s bottom around the...
When biologist Tudor Williams of the National Fish and Wildlife Service is assigned to a station in central Florida, she is not welcome at all. Her new boss, Alex Lowell, had expected a man -- not a girl -- to become his assistant. So he tries to con...
Katherine Lonsdale knew that living could be unpredictable. But her life had never been as complex as it became when she inherited a house from her late, estranged grandmother in North Carolina. Katherine loved the house and the surrounding countrysi...
Lily Hale had a very glamorous job. That's what she told herself again and again and again, gritting her teeth. After all, she was a personal secretary to a famous opera singer, and each new day with the big star was an adventure. Usually, an unp...