Peggy O'More Blocklinger

Gerda Johns, exhausted physically and mentally by a demanding job, sat tensely across from the doctor. "Dr. Brown, I want a prescription for something to tide me over until I can convince myself the long strain is ended. Why, I haven't had time to live or - " "Love-?" the doctor asked gently. Love, Gerda thought bitterly. She had been too busy - too responsible for love. She knew she was ready to love, but she feared that love was not ready for her. Could the most unusual prescription that Dr. Brown proceeded to write for Gerda help her find a way to a new life?"

Strange Will! Psychiatric Nurse Donna Caffery had been warned about Morgan Manor before she undertook a private duty assignment there. But Donna, who herself needed a rest therapy to help her get over the death of her fiance, looked upon her assignment as a relief from her own bereavement. But her meeting with Henry Emerson, manager of the Morgan Ranch, awakened passions in Donna which she thought long dead. Then Donna discovered why Morgan Manor was called the House of Hate. It was filled with envy, greed, jealousy, and fear-emotions which had poisoned the minds and bodies of all its inhabitants emotions which were intensified by the strange will of the late Martin Morgan who left his five daughters nothing to look forward to except the death of each other! Donna sensed this danger for herself and for her patient as well. Could she escape from the Gothic monstrosity to which she had been doomed before it was too late?

Heaven or horror? Penny Padroni left the city and bought a country house, ugly and decrepit though it was, so that she could budge her fiance, Arthur Westbrook, out of his mother's apartment. It worked for a while, but the more she saw Arthur, the more she saw of his mother too. Mrs. Westbrook tried to take over and redesign Penny's house to suit her own tastes. This, in turn, led to clashes between Penny and Arthur, and to Penny's eventually turning to her handsome neighbor, Cork Corbett, for help with her domestic as well as romantic problems. Would Cork take Arthur's place in Penny's life, or would her old love win out? Would Penny's house become a heaven or a horror for her?

Undercover Colleen – What is lovely, intelligent Elaine Doughety doing at the Fairlee estate disguised as a homely, not too bright maid? For that matter, what is handsome rising young attorney Harland Hammon doing there posing as a chauffeur? Ellie, daughter of private investigator Patrick Dougherty, is looking into reports of “strange goings on” that have neighbours suspecting that old Louisa Fairlee is crazy. Ham has been sent by his uncle, Mrs Fairlee’s lawyer, to find out if the old lady is really incapable of handling her own affairs – as her nephew and his wife claim. The “maid” and the “chauffeur immediately sense something not quite right about each other – just as they sense that something isn’t right at Fairlee. But neither can uncover the truth until love exposes their masquerade...