Valerie K. Nelson

• 1963
• / Contemporary Romance
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Linda Payne had her own personal reasons for taking up nursing. It was a way to forget the tragic past she had so painfully, but successfully, put behind her. Then, just as she reached new happiness with Doctor Philip Strangeways, the spite of a jeal...

• 1963
• / Contemporary Romance
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At the age of 20, Verena Fairclough discovers that she is in fact not her parents' child, not even legally adopted, but a foundling imposed upon her elderly and hostile father by her deceased mother. Disowned in her father's will, penniless, abandone...

• 1963
• / Contemporary Romance
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What was it in Nurse Ann Wood's past which made her shrink from recovering the memory she had lost in a train crash? She felt instinctively that to remember would make her unhappy. Yet would she be any happier staying where she was, under a name that...

• Feb-1964
• / Contemporary Romance
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Jane Lindley had no thought of husband-hunting. It was not so very long since she had lost her fiance in an air crash. Though, since then, she had felt a quick attraction toward a stranger who had come suddenly and mysteriously into her life and h...

• May-1964
• / Contemporary Romance
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Roma Ingles happened to be an excellent nurse -- but only a few of her wiser seniors were aware of it. To most of her acquaintances at Queen Frida's Hospital, she was a good time girl, dated by half the medical staff and on with three new loves befor...

• Jul-1964
• / Contemporary Romance
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One would expect a nurse to be delighted at attracting the attention of a distinguished young consultant; but Annabel was too taken up with her love for a young landowner to value the admiration of Max Damien. It was only after a long-drawn-out and p...

• Sep-1964
• / Contemporary Romance
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"To cure sometimes, to relieve often and to comfort always" - that is a description of a nurse's duty. Julia found that "comforting" put a severe strain on her when it meant acting as the fiancee of a patient for whom she cared little, in the presenc...

• Feb-1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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"A wilting, self-sacrificing female" was the way the great specialist Julian Laborde described Lorraine, because she spent her life looking after her mother and sister. Lorraine could not have cared less -- until she found herself falling in love ...

• Aug-1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lora's nursing and medical student friends gave her a rousing, indeed rowdy, send-off when she left London for a long holiday. It gave Dr. Bruce Averton the worst possible impression of her; which was a pity, as they were soon to be colleagues....

• Nov-1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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From what her dear friend Jeremy had told her, Nurse Jane Ashley had the worst possible opinion of his cousin Paul. What a hard, managing old man he must be, she thought, to try and force Jeremy to study for a career which did not interest him. "Some...

• Nov-1970
• / Romance
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• May-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lesley had come to Trevendone Manor in Cornwall from far-off New South Wales. She had seen advertisements in Australian papers which suggested that there was an inheritance waiting for the twin brother and sister who made the journey with her. And...