W.E.D. Ross

• Jul-1959
• / Gothic
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The Phantom of Her Dreams Julie awoke with a sob from the terrifying nightmare. Would she never have peace? She was about to attempt sleep again when she saw the flicker of movement in the corner of the room. As she stared into the darkness, a col...

• 1963
• / Contemporary Romance
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Shortly after beautiful Edna Blandish promised to marry football star Jeff Donnell, her ex-flame came to see her. "I still love you," said Tom Haines. Tom's feelings were a complete shock. But it was a greater surprise to find out he was still att...

• Jan-1965
• / Gothic
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Beth Hale hated to leave Boston and the handsome Dennis Mullaney with who she had fallen in love. Unhappily, Beth knew she had to return to Milliston. For one thing, her father was desperately ill and needed her there. And for another, Beth had disco...

• 1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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• 1966
• / Contemporary Romance
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A beautiful young woman is faced by a fearful conflict of loyalities. Her father, who has served as a spy on both sides of the Iron Curtain, is wanted by the C.I.A., and a young agent is employed to shadow him in Paris, and to entice him back to the ...

• 1966
• / Contemporary Romance
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For three years Grace Barrow has been the only American nurse at Kovik Island Hospital in the Northlands of Canada. Dr Paul Webber is in charge of the hospital, assisted by young Mr. Mark Windsor, who was lamed in a car crash that killed his fiancee....

• Jan-1967
• / Contemporary Romance
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• 1967
• / Contemporary Romance
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When the Prince isn’t so charming, you can either Live and Let Rogue. . . Or bring him to his knees. A Rogue Who Demanded Revenge:John Forthryte, the newly made Earl of Mooreland, is an absolute bastard. Born the illegitimate son of a duke, hate ...

• 1967
• / Contemporary Romance
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In this rollicking comedy-romance, as up-to-date as tomorrow’s headlines, humorous characters abound, and there are a suitably appealing hero and heroine. Horace Winslow’s daughter is determined to protect the good name of her lately deceased aut...

• Jan-1968
• / General Fiction
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This unusual romantic suspense story deals with a Hollywood film company making a mystery film set aboard an ancient ocean liner which they have leased for the production. The ship becomes fogbound during the filming, and romance, mystery, and suspen...

• 1968
• / Contemporary Romance
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This is a fascinating story about the romance between a young lawyer and a secretary who believes in him despite a total lack of confidence in his abilities on the part of his father and his business associates. It is also a revelation of the struggl...

• 1968
• / Contemporary Romance
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Tom Carter, a playwright, returns to Quebec to write a Canadian novel. Although he is engaged to a charming American girl he is still haunted by the memory of Ann Pacquet who lives in Quebec. He hopes to see her again but he knows she is also engaged...

• Jan-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lovely young Vera Wells was looking forward to a summer at the old New England mansion of her childhood. But her joy was clouded by the arrival of her strong-willed and imperious aunt, famous novelist Marcia Windsor, along with Marcia's disreputa...

• Feb-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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This is the story of a love affair between a promising young actress and the famous theatrical producer who gives her an important part in a new play destined for Broadway and West End presentation. To her surprise the girl discovers that the prod...

• Jul-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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George's birthday has always been celebrated by the whole Crandall family, so when George called at the last minute to say that he couldn't come, his younger sister Jill was upset. Her older brother was her favorite, and besides, it was Georg...

• Jul-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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Steve Ryder had come back to Saint John to work for a law firm handling the affairs of S. C. North, a wealthy and shrewd business man with interests in that part of Canada. He is stern and unbending in his relations with his employees. Five years bef...

• Sep-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jan-1970
• / Gothic
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Vivacious young Erica Blake and Bruce Cord were more than just casual friends. They had met at college and dated quite regularly. But suddenly Bruce vanished without a word, without a trace, and Erica had to know why. Finding out wouldn't be easy...

• Jan-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jan-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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SCENARIO... When their play closed In Boston, Clare Lister and Eddie Gibbon found themselves out of work... again. For Clare and Eddie, it was an old story, part of every young actor's and actress's struggle for stardom... along with such ...

• May-1970
• / Romance
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Depressed by an unexpected accident, Sue turns her back on success in the world of advertising and seeks refuge in a small college town. Here she meets a fine man whom she respects. Just when she has decided that the young professor who has brought h...

• Jul-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jan-1971
• / Gothic
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She had fled heartbreak once. Could she be sure her new love was true love...? The Changing Face Of Love Lovely blonde nurse Irene Hunt considered herself lucky to be working in such a fascinating field as plastic surgery. And her growing roman...

• Jan-1971
• / Gothic
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BRIDE OF FEAR Enid Graham could only wonder why handsome, brilliant, wealthy Pierre St. John should have chosen her as his bride. But when the lovely young American girl arrived with her husband at his lonely chateau, the reason became terribly cl...

• Jan-1971
• / Gothic
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Joyce Wales had come to the musty summer theater in Maine, little knowing the brutal terror she would soon feel. But in the dark, secret places of the theater buildings, Joyce sensed an ominous presence - a sinister portent of terror to come. She ...

• Jan-1971
• / Contemporary Romance
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Little did American born Sharon realize when she met the dashing author Jeff Swain at a cocktail party in London, that her life would take a sudden turn-for better or worse. For after a whirlwind courtship, Sharon and Jeff honeymooned in Paris and th...

• Aug-1971
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jan-1972
• / Gothic
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A Murderous Ghost Clare Rand was fascinated by the valuable rare books in her uncle’s library. One of the old volumes, the famous Spanish Book of the Gospels, had a strange history. The num who had devoted her life to the manuscript had request...

• Aug-1972
• / Gothic
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It was with a mixture of pleasure and regret that Marie Todd arrived from New York to spend Thanksgiving at the family home in Renfrew. Her two brothers and her sister had gathered at the old homestead, too -- and all were there to discuss the sale o...

• Jan-1973
• / Gothic
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SHADOWS OF NIGHT Emily Marsh knew now what awaited her when she was summoned to her grandfather's villa on the Spanish coast. Stephen Gaunt had an international reputation for wealth and power, but to Emily he was only the enigmatic man who had d...

• 1973
• / Gothic
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A date with death... It all began when Eve Nickerson was attracted by an advertisement in a magazine for a computer dating service. Being possessed of a keen sense of humor, and with time on her hands between jobs, the young actress decided to pay...

• Jul-1973
• / Contemporary Romance
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She was an expert operating room nurse dedicated to her profession. Then tragedy struck in the form of the death of a loved one at the hands of a famous surgeon. Since she suspected carelessness on the operating table she decided to deliberately rui...

• Oct-1973
• / Gothic
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Grace West had always obeyed her rich father’s wishes -- to the point of accepting Dick Browning’s marriage proposal. Then union organizer Geoff Bailey came to Branton, a man as brash as Dick was cool, a man who challenged the rule of Mr. West...

• Nov-1973
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Jan-1974
• / Gothic
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DEATH STRIKES… Bette Graham innocently attends an interview with a representative of the Hardwick family of Portland, Maine. Her ability in working with the deaf and dumb garners her the position -- caring for Mrs. Hardwick’s beautiful, black-...

• Sep-1974
• / Romance
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It's the start of summer, an exciting time for Jennifer Bruce. She's been chosen as an apprentice actress at the Kennebunkport Playhouse on the coast of Maine, and has a full summer to indulge her love of acting. But Jennifer finds herself playing th...

• Jan-1975
• / Gothic
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Her mother a suicide, her father dead from an accident in which she was involved, lovely Rita Myles attempts to exorcise the devil within her. It all starts out when she was asked to uncover the mystery of the 'hanging suicides' at a private ...

• Sep-1975
• / Gothic
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Vivian's inherited manor was her dream come true - until she was attacked by a terror from beyond the grave! The Heiress of Kendall Manor Vivian Kendall thought she had enough to contend with when she became mistress of her late grandfather...

• Jun-1976
• / Gothic
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• Jan-1978
• / Gothic
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Elsie Mavor's mind is a total blank as she wakes up in an ancient Cornish castle, shrouded by mystery and legend. She can't remember her late father, who left her the bulk of the estate. She can't remember her greedy stepmother, or her handsome fianc...

• Jan-1978
• / Gothic
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Living in the small town of Barton, Maine, Sue Lawson had had little time for romance while helping her brother Chet build a small general-contracting business their father had left them into busy, successful Central Construction. Now, at twenty-five...

• Jan-1979
• / Gothic
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A hospital is suddenly immersed in a swarm of serious medical problems and the blame is placed on its new chief of staff. Nurse Judy doesn't believe he is at fault and fights tooth and nail for his reputation....

• Apr-1979
• / Gothic
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Real-estate agent Jane Wright has waited years for her handsome neighbor, Allan Needham, to propose to her. Just when the attractive lawyer is about to pop the question, Betty Smith, a beautiful widow, buys a nearby mansion from Jane and starts to lu...

• Nov-1979
• / Gothic
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When private-duty nurse Ann Chase takes an assignment to look after Arthur Kulas, an eccentric, semi-retired diplomat, all her resources are strained to the limit. Mr. Kulas's ailments aren't the problem. It's his mischievous ways and haz...

• Jan-1980
• / Gothic
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• Jan-1980
• / Gothic
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When Ann Sloane applied for a job as nurse-receptionist to Dr. Tom Weston, she did not tell him why she had been dismissed from her last position. Aside from that, her new job with the good-looking young doctor ran smoothly. The tiny Maine fishing vi...

• Jan-1980
• / Gothic
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Monica Moore, a beautiful, talented model, is trying to establish her career in London when she gets a most unusual assignment from the wealthy film producer, Roderick Case. He wants her to impersonate his wife at a business dinner. Monica goes throu...

• Jan-1981
• / Gothic
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Beautiful. Talented. Lucky. That describes young Helen Green, the leading lady of Porthaven’s regional theater. Not only is her career moving surely and swiftly, but she and Jim Prentiss, the theater’s gifted set designer, share a very special cl...

• Jan-1982
• / Gothic
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Grace Stone was probably the best surgical nurse at Pentland Hospital. Attractive Dr. Mark Briar often told her so. And most of the staff was first-rate. But that could not be said of Dr. Graham Underwood. Though he had a big reputation in the outsid...

• Jan-1982
• / Gothic
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• 1982
• / Gothic
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• Feb-1982
• / Gothic
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Susan Gordon felt delighted when magnetic Chet Williams, the New Orleans textile tycoon, hired her to catalogue the books in his huge library. She admired Bells Acres, his lovely mansion. And she was fascinated by the man himself, who had recently be...

• Jan-1983
• / Gothic
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Terry Rawlins has an exciting job as pilot for a small air service on the coast of Maine. In the fairest weather and the stormiest, she flies her one-engine Cessna from the mainland to the nearby islands, carrying mail, packages, and people. Then E.K...

• Aug-1983
• / Gothic
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Evelyn Garney wished she had never inherited Winterhaven, the strange stone mansion left to her by her aunt. Once a brilliant stage actress, Aunt Helen had turned into a coldhearted recluse in her later years. Since the day Evelyn moved into the e...

• Jan-1984
• / Gothic
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Every year Barbara Ware looked forward to the vacation she spent with her two sister and her parents. But this summer she had a strange sense of foreboding as she drove to the family farm in Maine. She was sure something unpleasant awaited her there....

• Mar-1984
• / Gothic
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Janice Hunt, head nurse of the recovery-room unit at Wentworth Hospital, heard quick footsteps coming down the corridor and glanced up from her desk to see the stout figure of Amanda Dilby hurrying toward her. Janice could tell by the troubled look o...

• Jul-1984
• / Gothic
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It was a strange summer for Many Rice. Instead of taking some sedate job that would have pleased her family, the young schoolteacher was spending the hot months driving a truck for a small pickup and delivery service. And instead of seeing a great...

• Jul-1984
• / Gothic
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Putting on a Broadway show is always something of miracle. “You don't want Paul, do you?” “Of course not!” answered Kathleen. “I'm in love with Pat Bell.” “Has Paul asked you to marry him, ever?” Kathleen could do on...

• Jan-1985
• / Gothic
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Ada Trask, a brilliant violinist, is thrilled when she gets a chance to play with the a Manhattan Symphony. Not only will she become a member of one of the world’s greatest ensembles, she hopes to unveil the ugly mystery surrounding the long-ago de...

• Jun-1985
• / Gothic
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After winning a trip to Amsterdam, a young woman falls in love with a talented artist whose behaviour troubles her, and soon thereafter she finds herself hopelessly enmeshed in a web of heartbreak and danger. It all seemed too good to be true. No ...

• Jun-1986
• / Gothic
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Ann Norman desperately wanted to make a success of the Onslow Playhouse, the summer theater she'd inherited from her father. In the last few years the theater receipts had been low. Unless things improved drastically this season, she would lose t...

• Nov-1986
• / Gothic
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It was easy for Kate Lanier to get a job working for the well-known cartoonist and philanthropist, Jeff Morrel. It was easy for her to talk to various community groups, urging them to take part in Jeff Morrel's projects designed to help kids impr...

• Oct-1987
• / Gothic
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Peace and quiet--that was what Beth Manners was looking for when she rented the beautiful house in the country. She hoped it would be a place where she could take a holiday and begin to forget the tragic events in her past, a place where she could ge...

• Jul-2001
• / Gothic
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A mysterious disappearance leads to an unexpected inheritance of wealth, romance, and terror. Although the old fashioned charm of Louisburg Square in Boston's Beacon Hill district allayed some of the fear felt by Better Carelli, a stranger in ...

• / Gothic
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Vivian's inherited manor was her dream come true - until she was attacked by a terror from beyond the grave! The Heiress of Kendall Manor Vivian Kendall thought she had enough to contend with when she became mistress of her late grandfather...