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Ruth McCarthy Sears
Book List in Order: 47 titles
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A Nurse's Holiday
- 1969
- / Contemporary Romance
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St. Catherine’s Hospital was located in Seaside, California, not far from San Francisco, but its main attraction for dark-haired, blue-eyed Ava Kendall was that there she could continue to surf -- a thrilling sport that she had learned to love wh...
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Refugee Nurse
- 1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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To blonde Connie Costello, having grown up in a Miami orphanage had its advantages, but it had its drawbacks, too. For one thing, she had never been accepted by her childhood sweetheart’s prominent family; for another, she and her sister, Maria -- ...
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Nurse in Acapulco
- May-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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Candy Conners realized her heart's desire when she came to work at the fabulous Norte Americana Hospital in Acapulco. While America's richest and most beautiful people were playing on the beaches and in the villas of this world-famous resort,...
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Nurse at Mamoran Manor
- Jan-1972
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Pretty, brown-haired Susan Forrester’s introduction to the mental institution where she was to do a year’s post-graduate work came as a rude shock. For Mamoran Manor, an old ivy-covered mansion high on a cliff over the ocean, had just witnessed a...
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In the Shadow of the Tower
- 1972
- / Gothic
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Gina had never liked her stepsister, Merilee. But she could not afford to refuse the offer to come to San Francisco to care for Merilee's young son. So with an old and ill family retainer, she sets off for the luxurious Nob Hill mansion where her ...
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The Watching Windows
- Jun-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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Marly had come to towering Regent Manor, as private nurse to the elegant Mrs. Regent, with hopes of finding the home she did not have. But from the start she was besieged by troubles. First, she found it necessary to enter the Manor by scaling its ir...
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Jolie Benoit, R.N.
- Nov-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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For three long years lovely Jolie Benoit had been a nurse at bustling Empire General Hospital in New York. Now she was flying home to Kansas in a private plane--at the call of handsome young Senator Brad Benedict, who had deserted Jolie at the altar ...
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Theater Nurse
- 1973
- / Contemporary Romance
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Although she was a devoted and dedicated nurse and respected the nursing profession, Sandra’s real enthusiasm was reserved for the stage and the glamour of the footlights. Therefore she eagerly seized the opportunity to be a backstage nurse for the...
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The Grangerfjord Monks
- 1974
- / Gothic
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Lost in a heavy mountain storm, Karma was forced to take refuge in remote Grangerfjord. Legend had it that no one who entered the place ever returned; it was also said that the statues on the tower were the corpses of those who had died there, encase...
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Tiger by the Tail
- Sep-1988
- / Contemporary Romance
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Five years ago a tree had fallen on Damon Billington, a prominent young lawyer, and crushed his legs and broken his spirit. It was then up to his sister, Lacey, only eighteen at the time, to care for the family and try to support them in the style th...
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The Legend of Devil's Doom
- Nov-1991
- / Contemporary Romance
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Mexico -- land of enchantment, adventure, romance. For lovely young Thalia Templeton, Mexico was also the home of her maternal relatives. Thalia’s mother had died giving birth to her, and the baby was sent to Chicago with an aunt, Millicent. But, u...
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The Web of Deception
- Apr-2001
- / Contemporary Romance
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Paris was all that Licia Gage had dreamed it would be. The pretty, blue-eyed governess was staying with the Rosson and their two young children at the Hotel Capri, an elegant island amidst the swirl of bustling crowds and bright foliage that is Paris...
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Nurse of the Wine Country
- Jul-2004
- / Contemporary Romance
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After the death of her father in Korea, Margo Hale and her mother, Tonia, lived with Margo's Aunt Elinor -- and when Tonia gave up her fight for life without the man she loved, Margo looked upon her aunt as her sole relative. Dimly, she knew that...
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Dr. Toni's Miracle
- Dec-2004
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Toni Corbett was still in medical school in New York, her dream was to team up with Scott Morely, already a doctor in their hometown of Cedar Valley, not only in a professional way but also in matrimony. After all, Toni and Scott were engaged, a...
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Dr. Sara's Vigil
Sara Jordan's skill as a diagnostician was known throughout her hometown of Hunter Hills, California, known throughout the whole state, in fact, but still the attractive young doctor was faced with prejudice, both from patients and fellow doctors...
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A Gift of the Sea
Marcy Dayton’s trip to Paris had been captivating and stimulating, but now she was ready to return to Philadelphia and rejoin her widowed father, a judge, who seemed to be fearful of some sort of crisis which he did not define. She was hardly off t...
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The Golden Sentinels
“Faces I have loved came back to haunt me in the night like misty half forgotten melodies, sometimes in dreams, sometimes in nightmares. And always the place in Grangerfjord. “ Thus begins this tale of romance and horror for young Eve Vail who co...
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Heir of Grangerford Castle
The prospect of being governess to a small boy and spending her summers in a mountain retreat seemed to Fran Talbot an ideal way to forget her shattered romance. She did not foresee that the mountain retreat would be Grangerfjord, a storied fortress ...
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The House on the Dunes
The tiny redwood house on the beach seemed like a sanctuary to dark-haired advertising copywriter Jennifer Holman. Here in the fresh sea breeze she could make a new home for her recently orphaned teenage brother and precocious little sister. So her t...
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A Lonely Place
In order to claim her inheritance of a Western dance hall, Molly Moore left the hospital where she had been employed as a nurses' aide, the young intern with whom she was in love, and journeyed to Silverado. There' she found those who coveted...
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Mist of Memory
Why hadn't Aaron called her? After five years as a prisoner of war her dashing fiance, Captain Aaron Cowdray, was home--she had watched on her television set in Chicago while he deplaned at a California base--yet Susan Ames had had no message fro...
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New Love for Old
Catherine Pragolisk's memories of Driftwood Downs were as grim and gray as the massive stone house that towered above the Pacific Ocean on a rocky cliff. Until three years ago delicate-featured Cathy had lived in shame at Driftwood, relegated to ...
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A Nurse's Quest
While vacationing in the historic California town of Monterey, Darcy Burnett accidentally ran into her old college roommate, Evie Wood, and Evie's handsome newspaperman brother, Paul. Raven-haired Darcy, just out of nursing school, was a little a...
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Nurse Nora's Folly
After her first romance end in tragedy, beautiful, intelligent Nora Easton fears all men. When she gets a nursing assignment on the breathtaking California coast, she still can't forget the playboy doctor who caused her so much anguish. She distr...
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Nurse of Glen Lock
After 3 years of nursing training in San Francisco, Roma returned to her home town to work in the local hospital and tend to the neighbors she loved. But something had happened to her town. The company in her company town had become a tyrant, without...
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Ordeal of Love
The fates do not seem to have smiled upon young Christy Poindexter who, raised a 'proper young lady,' is unable to secure a job to bolster the family's waning income. Her younger brother, Art, seems more interested in his own pleasures an...
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The Phantom Empire
In order to claim her inheritance of a Western dance hall, Molly Moore left the hospital where she had been employed as a nurses' aide, the young intern with whom she was in love, and journeyed to Silverado. There' she found those who coveted...
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Port of No Return
The cruise was to be a special treat for the three college chums before they settled down to the realities of the workaday world. But it was not long after the ship's sailing that they discovered the body of one of their bon voyage guests in a li...
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The Silent Witness
The place where Ann Jeffers met Cady was like a harbringer of the terror to come. Ann and her friend, Maquette Forman, two farm girls from Hays, Kansas, had come to San Francisco to shed the past and pursue careers. Wanting to savor that other side o...
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Spirit of Cove Island
When blonde Melanie Mason finally arrived on Cove Island, off Puget Sound, in the middle of a storm, she knew at once that something was wrong. The old, balconied house -- her Uncle Gerard’s house -- was neglected and gloomy-looking, with an almost...
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St. George Manor
SECRET OF HORROR Camille Ray, a pretty, silent young reporter of her father’s local newspaper, went to interview the handsome young heir of the St. George estate. She fell in love with him and wanted to join the fast, wealthy circles he moved in...
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The Wheel of Fortune
When frost had ruined the Hill Vineyards, Monet Hill had been forced to drop out of college and count her pennies. but the friendships she had made there could not be so abruptly cut off, and when the brother of one of her school chums started to tak...
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Wind in the Cypress
FEAR AND TERROR Karma Millay, recovering from pneumonia in the dry climate of a desert ranch, receives a letter from a long forgotten relative, Sister DeMontfort. Karma is invited to visit her great-aunt at Grangerfjord, in the mountains on the co...
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Friday's Child
Dawn Pellam came to the artists’ colony overlooking the Pacific to forget the tragic accident that had destroyed her happiness. There she met devil-may-care Jeff, who fell in love with her instantly, and Phil, who gently offered his friendship. ...
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Timberline Nurse
Crystal Garnette loved the beautiful, pine-covered mountains where she had grown up. But when her romance with wealthy Jeffrey Varian ended in heartbreak, Crystal fled to the city to forget. She succeeded, working at busy Rochester-Main Hospital -- u...
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Star Lansing - Arizona Doctor
Young and lovely Dr. Star Lansing loved the wild Arizona country where she was born and raised. Here she dedicated herself to helping the poor but proud local Indian tribe, raising needed funds by treating wealthy patients at the exclusive Desert Cit...
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Cross-Winds
Beautiful Ann Journey tried to hide the fact that she was a warm, loving woman on the long, hard road to becoming a doctor. Her cool manner and crisp efficiency were meant to persuade her male colleagues to take her seriously as a physician. -- But...
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Three Silver Birches
Lovely young Christy Haven needed three years of medical treatment to recover from the shock of her father’s mysterious death. Now, as she returned to her family home of Three Birches, it seemed as if her nightmare of fear was beginning again. C...
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The Encounter
Stunning young Mara Belcourt could have virtually any man -- except the one she desperately wanted. She had been in her teens when she fell under the spell of brilliant, cynical Richard Tudor, and even when he told her he would never love her, she c...
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Cruise of the Golden Poppy
For Roberta Royale, working for the Drake Steamship Company had been a dream come true. And now she stood by helplessly, seeing it destroyed, knowing she might save it . . . but at the cost of her own personal happiness. Drake SS . . . For a ...
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Ninth Wave for Nurse Kendall
St. Catherine’s Hospital was located in Seaside, California, not far from San Francisco, but its main attraction for dark-haired, blue-eyed Ava Kendall was that there she could continue to surf -- a thrilling sport that she had learned to love when...