Maysie Coucher Greig

Rae, a beautiful actress who attracted men and love affairs, came to a ranch in Reno for a short holiday. Here, by chance, she met one of her former lovers who was a nasty person as well as one of her former husbands whom she had betrayed. Complications arose when on the verge of having an affair with the married ranch owner, his only daughter was used by Rae's nasty ex-lover as a way to get Rae back. Events helped Rae and others in this story untangled the mess they had made.

At the Sydney airport, nurse June Ray made her first error; she mistook a handsome stranger for her sponsor, Dr. Jed Lawson. Unaware of her mistake, June spent a romantic day and a half swimming in the dazzling sunlight and dancing under the stars. By the time she met the man with whom she had been corresponding and to whom she owed her last chance at a nursing career, her heart was no longer her own.

Simon Bruce is so absorbed in his work as a research scientist that he takes for granted the mothering of little Prue Hollywell, who lives in the same boarding house. When he hears that he has inherited a large fortune from a long forgotten godfather he looks on the lives as a nuisance, an interruption to his work, and even forgets to tell Prue, who is thereby cruelly hurt. But when Welsley Ashton, a broken down card sharper who formerly worked the trans Atlantic liners reads in the paper of Simon’s inheritance, and his reluctance to accept it, he conveniently remembers that he is a relative of this fabulous benefactor. So Ashton, work on the sympathy of his beautiful young daughter who has been kept in ignorance of his shady past and who idolises him, suggests that she look up this reluctant millionaire Roenna does so and Simon, who has never met such a glamour girl before, falls head over heels in love with her. Prue, in love with Simon herself, sets out to rescue him from the designing minx. But things don’t go as she plans.

Beth was in love with her boss, but he could only dream of the brief passionate interlude he had shared with a Japanese girl long ago, and of the child he had never seen. Beth agrees to accompany him to Japan in search of his daughter. There, perhaps, the ghost of Madame Butterfly would be laid, and he would turn to her for solace. Her loyal heart is lead along dark and dangerous paths before finding the love she craves.

Christine and Jeremy, childhood friends were destined to be together. Then he went away to college ... and when he returns all will be as before he left. We will wed and be blissfully happy. But he's back now ... and he seems ... so different. Marriage without love, and what it did to two modern couples. Born Jennifer Greig Smith, Sydney, won a literary competition at 15, worked as a journalist with the Sydney Sun 1919-20, and then went to England where she published Peggy of Beacon Hill (1920), which was serialized and later filmed. Permanent resident in England, except for brief period in Australia during the 1950s. Maysie Greig went on to write about 200 popular romantic novels, few of which have any connection with Australia.