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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: 8 titles
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Nurse in Waiting
- 1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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How long could young Dr. Bob hide the terrible truth before Nurse Kane was forced to turn to another man? Everybody thought Wanda Miles was too rich, too beautiful to be a good nurse. But she was. And her know-how included a plan to lure Dr. John ...
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Front Office Nurse
- Jan-1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Nurse Rita Lewis's fiancé proved to be a fortune hunter who jilted her for an heiress, she threw herself into her work at Riverdale Memorial Hospital. The newest member of the hospital staff was a young doctor who, in the clinic where he had pr...
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Hotel Nurse
- Jan-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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A brilliant young doctor wanted her; a handsome, ambitious man loved her. To whom would her heart turn? Who held the key to her heart? Kate Dorn, as the resident nurse at one of New York’s most glamorous hotels, responded to the pain and hear...
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Behind Hospital Walls
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Intrigue in surgery. Head nurse Lena Mitchell could be proud of her staff, except for one member--a sister who was robbing her of happiness... Lena's life changed when her younger sister Jan came to work for her at Middleboro General. Jan was ...
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Surgical Nurse
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Kathy Hogan was top assistant to the brilliant surgeon, Gregory Martin. He respected her professionally--but could he love her as a woman? St. Paul's Hospital Nurse Kathy Hogan was an operating room nurse at large, modern St. Paul's. She p...
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The Nurse Takes a Chance
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Kathy Hogan was not in love with Dr. Greg Martin--no matter what the other nurses at St. Paul's thought. She and the brilliant young surgeon might be the perfect team in the operating room, but there was no no hope of romance. For the doctor, a w...
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Head Nurse
- Jan-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Intrigue in surgery. Lena Mitchell's life changed when her younger sister Jan came to work for her at Middleboro General. Jan was blonde, lovely, vivacious -- but totally lacking the dedication she expected from her staff. When a patient of Jan&#...