The lonely Maine seacoast town of Hawkesbury was very different from the big Boston hospital where Mavis Eaton had been serving as a nurse. Yet it was giving her an undreamed of opportunity to indulge her second talent — painting — for a whole year without interruption. In fact, the elderly patient who had offered to subsidize Mavis had made concentration on her art for twelve months one of the conditions of the grant. And when she died at the start of the experiment, Mavis found that her will still took care of the situation.

So the nurse settled down to her seascapes and landscapes. Unfortunately, some sinister developments concerning suspected spies and other unhealthy characters soon diverted Mavis and made the preservation of her own life her chief preoccupation.

Blonde Donna Mitchell decided that one way to determine her true feelings for doctor friend Richard was to change her nursing job and get a fresh slant on her emotions. After she applied at an agency for private-duty work, she was sent to the home of an eccentric importer, Mr. Eastman, who informed her that her task would not be easy. But Donna was intrigued with the challenge of this position, and also with dark-haired Steve Chandler, Mr. Eastman’s accountant and business advisor, and so she accepted with alacrity.

Mr. Eastman was planning a sea voyage to Istanbul, where he could conduct some business transactions, and naturally Donna would accompany him, along with Steve and Penelope Winslow, Mr. Eastman’s private secretary and old friend. Events whirled by at such a fast clip that before long, Istanbul was a visual reality, a city pulsating with danger and excitement heretofore undreamed of by Donna. The basis for the trip seemed to center around the purchase of the Green Medallion, a rare and precious gem, and soon Donna realized that her employer was involved in something highly illegal.

But what about Steve? Was he, too, involved, or was he merely an innocent bystander? And when a letter arrives from Richard, Donna is forced to analyze her feelings once more.

Would she marry a man she didn’t love to save the life of a handsome doctor?

“Be careful, Anne. This is a serious mental case we’re up against. We’re all in danger as long as she’s allowed to run around loose,” Dan said.

Nurse Anne knew it was true. Margaret Slater was not a normal person. She was beautiful and rich but she was a destroyer. Sooner or later she would succeed in destroying someone — some helpless victim of her irrational, jealous fury…but who would the victim be? When would she strike?

Margaret need help — psychiatric help. Brad Portner was a wonderful psychiatrist, but love was blind…he was planning to marry Margaret!

A lovely young nurse must decide: settle for a secure marriage or fight for the man she loves.

She saw her friend’s happiness destroyed by love.

Sherry Allen’s roommate, Nurse Melinda Collins, spent her nights sobbing and her days drinking — pursued by a shameful secret, by the inescapable consequences of a moment of heedless passion.

It was only when the unhappy girl attempted a desperate way out of her trouble that Sherry learned the cause of her friend’s anguish was a man. it was then that Sherry realized she, too, must face up to a crisis of the heart. Before it was too late, the young nurse had to choose: settle for security…or, like Melinda, take a reckless gamble on love.

The intriguing story of a wealthy family ruled by a tyrannical woman, and a pretty nurse who dares to fall in love — with the wrong man.

Mrs. Breckenridge’s maniacal possessiveness had turned her handsome son into a peevish playboy, her daughter into a shrill, contemptuous and cheating wife, her son-in-law into a drunken failure. When it seemed as though one of her captives might break away, Mrs. Breckenridge had another heart attack and threatened to change her will.

In accepting the wealthy hypochondriac as a patient, special nurse Donna Walton had no way of knowing that she was to be used as bait in the old woman’s devious scheme to keep her son by her side…forever.