The Trail of
Conflict 1922
Here Comes
the Sun! 1924
A Certain
Crossroad 1925
The Solitary
Horseman 1927
Swift Water
1929
Lighted
Windows 1930
Uncharted
Seas 1932
Hilltops
Clear 1933
With Banners
1934
We Ride the
Gale! 1934
It’s a Great
World! 1935
Give Me One
Summer 1936
As Long As I
Live 1937
High of
Heart 1938
Today Is
Yours 1938
Across the
Years 1939
There is
Always Love 1940
Where Beauty
Dwells 1941
Stars in
Your Eyes 1941
Rainbow at
Dusk 1942
When Hearts
Are Light Again 1943
Keepers of
the Faith 1944
Beyond the
Sound of Guns 1945
Bright Skies
1946
Beckoning
Trails 1947
I Hear
Adventure Calling 1948
Love Came
Laughing By 1949
To Love and
to Honor 1950
For All Your
Life 1952
I Take This
Man 1954
Penelope Sherrold marries Don Garth while thinking she is still in love with wastrel Dick Wentworth, in order to provide for her sick mother. Don, head of the Garth Airplane works (fabulously wealthy and important to the nation’s defense) vows to keep away from Penny (that is – separate rooms!) until he can win her love. Though Penny realizes quite quickly that Dick is a cad and that she is madly in love with Don, it takes many misunderstandings, jealousies, and international intrigue before the two can declare their love for each other and get their marriage underway. The intrigue is from unspecified “enemies of the US” plotting to steal plans for a super secret plane. Other charcters include Penny’s brother, Terrence; their old nurse, Nora; Geoff Jarvis, Don’s best friend and government agent posing as a playboy; Kitty Scarlet, a fragile seeming butterfly who is also some kind of agent; Kitty’s mother, Mrs. Owens; Petro, the young draftsman escaping communism; and Fane and Macy, supposedly servants but both really something else.
My Dearest
Love 1954
22-year-old Beth Gilbert falls in love with her guardian, Christopher Bradford. Orphan Beth has made her home with the Bradford family – Mother Ann, brother Ted and Chris – for many years. The intrigue surrounds the Gilbert formula for plastics. Was Beth’s father murdered for it? By whom? And where is the formula now? And what about Dr. Gilbert’s missing assistant? Chris’s widowed mother ends up with the long devoted Col. Haswell, and Ted’s tutor and the servant Rose also might have romance in their future. Other characters include Martha Mumford, wise waffle shop owner; Mark Craven, mysterious businessman in love with Beth; Evelyn Furnas, Chris’s rejected fiancee; Smithy, Ted’s tuor; and Julia Seagreve, Chris’s aunt who maliciously and deliberately causes huge complications for everyone. Set “in the country,” but many pivotal scenes take place in New York City.
The Shadow
of Suspicion 1955
What Then Is
Love 1956
Look to the
Stars 1957
Behind the
Cloud 1958
With This
Ring 1959
How Can the
Heart Forget? 1960
Throw Wide
the Door 1961
Follow Your
Heart 1963
A Candle in
Her Heart 1964
Forever and
a Day 1965
Spring
Always Comes 1966
A Key to
Many Doors 1967
In Times
Like These 1968
Love With
Honor 1969
No Time For
Love 1970
Forsaking
All Others 1971
Broadway actress Jennifer Haydon is raising her dead sister’s two-year-old son, Richard, whose father is missing in action in Vietnam. The father’s evil brother, Joe, tries to get custody of the boy so he can get his hands on the boy’s fortune, once the father (Richard Senior) is declared dead. Jenny foils him by marrying a young doctor, Bradley Maxwell, and moving to the desert town of Desert Winds in California. Brad and Jenny don’t even know each other – Jenny’s older friend, Dr. Ferguson, set it up so Brad could have a ready made family for the image-concious small town where he wants to practice medicine. So it’s not a “real marriage,” and Brad and Jenny have many conflicts reconciling her famous-actress lifestyle to his small town doctor way of life. The intrigue comes from Joe’s continued efforts to get the boy back and from Jenny’s machinations to turn Desert Winds into a resort town. Other characters include the Penrose family, father Silas and son Wallace, who are the richest family in town; Sarah Caldwell, Brad’s nurse whose mother dominates her; Alma Deming, who replaces Sarah as the nurse so Sarah can wait on her mother; Mrs. Fulmer, a truly evil gossip; Helen Gates, who runs the only motel in town, and Richard Senior, who does eventually appear to set everything right.
The Shining
Years 1972