Anne Vinton

Young intern Sheila Devaney finds more than enough drama to be had each night in Casualty, without the added excitement of finding that her senior house surgeon Mark Leighton is the man she almost married five years earlier.... Neither has married anyone else, although Mark appears to be considerably attracted to one of his female colleagues. But does trying to put the clock back ever work?

Night Sister Williams was horrified when she found that a patient had left her a fortune; the more so because that patient's only son, Doctor Ivor Berwyn, would, she knew, have used the money to help found a valuable clinic. The legal complexities were such that the only way she could give the money back to Ivor was by marrying him; and this she agreed to do, on the understanding that before very long they would part, and that neither should expect love from the other. But they had not been long married long before they found out that this seemingly sensible notion had one drawback: it could not be carried out in practice. Her treacherous heart whispered to her that she did not even want a separation to take place; but could she be sure that Ivor felt the same? Though he had taken a brunette wife, he had always been attracted to blondes, and . . . there was a very beautiful one working hard for his attention.

When Mab's fiance jilted her just before she was due to join him in Mombasa, she got a job as nurse on a luxury yacht cruising in the Mediterranean, to take her mind off her troubles. She found it only too easy to forget Nat once she had met the other members of the party; the incredible Darkside family, and ... Doctor Donald Guthrie.

The strict protocol of St. Columba's Hospital meant that a Resident medical officer and an insignificant probationer were not free to declare their love-but it was a bigger secret than that which threatened to ruin all Margaret's chances of happiness. Should Margaret risk confessing, or keep silent - and play right into the hands of the jealous, scheming Sister Helen Kendall?

Joanna has been let down in love, and so has Simon Rivers — yet until the night he asks her to marry him, she has never thought of him as anything but her boss, an autocratic but efficient consultant at St. Paul’s General Hospital. His ‘rational’ plan to marry her, and take her to Tanzania to forget their heartbreak, seems ridiculous. Beside, what would happen if Simon ever found out that she had fallen in love again — with him, of all people?

Rhona was disappointed, though not heartbroken, when her romance with Chris Wilson came to nothing. After all, she reasoned, if she had really loved him she would have given up her nursing career as he asked and gone out to South America with him. All the same, she was glad to have her work as a district nurse to take her mind off things. And she was more than glad to be able to fall back on the demands of her career when her next, and more promising, romance with Dr. Alex Denham suddenly crashed to disaster.

After a year's parting, physiotherapist Deborah Wyndham is at last on her way out to Nigeria to join her fiancé John. But when they do finally meet, that special something seems to have gone out of their relationship. Is it a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind' and will they gradually be able to get back on to their old footing…or has John become more interested in the beautiful, efficient Sister Eve Meadows? Kindly interference from the attractive Jean-Marc Roland makes things, if possible, even more complicated…

It seems the answer to all Dr Celia Derwent's prayers when her new boss Dr Alan Grainger proposes marriage. She desperately wants to convince the courts that she should have custody of her orphaned niece Fiona, and with a husband she will stand far better chance of persuading them. Alan is devoted to Fiona, but he still seems aloof and strangely wary of Celia. So will this marriage of convenience really solve all her problems?

Jane Pilgrim's appointment to Northingham Infirmary was her first as a full-fledged doctor. It was unfortunate that Doctor Potts who had hired her died before she could start. His successor, Doctor Richard Graves, was a dangerously attractive man!"

The story of Triss Wayne, the young nurse who had to conceal the fact that she was a nurse, her selfish, capricious yet sometimes charming patient, Celia Clayton, and the men in their lives. Celia's husband Larry insisted on putting his job first and dismissing Celia's wish to live in England; Stephen Graham, who owned the cocoa plantation was undoubtedly disturbing - but how did he really feel about Triss?

"Don't warn me off the grass again!" Laurence Venables soon made it clear that Penelope needn't think he would take advantage of their working relationship. He was in love with his fiancee, and not at all interested in a mere nurse! Penny told herself she didn't want the handsome doctor to take a romantic interest in her -- but was that the truth? Or did she feel she'd been hurt in love too often to dare try again?