Nurses book series in reading order

by Charles Todd

by Al Lacy / Bill Reno

by Helen Dore Boylston

by Janette Oke

by Tara Taylor Quinn

by Conrad Allen/ Keith Miles

by Teresa Southwick

Betty Neels (15 September 1909 - 7 June 2001) was an English author of more than 134 romance novels, born in Leyton. Mills & Boon published the novels first in the United Kingdom, and Harlequin reprinted them in North America. Neels wrote from 1969 until death, and the books are noted for being especially chaste. The catalogue lists 140 books, including Nurse in Holland (1969), Sister Peters in Amsterdam (1969) and Tempestuous April (1970). Doctors, nurses, surgeons and the Netherlands recur in the subjects, and Dr Fforde is a named series.

Charles Todd writes historical mysteries set around the First World War. Inspector Ian Rutledge, a police detective, and Bess Crawford, a nurse, head the two main series in a catalogue of 50 titles that begins with A Test of Wills (1994). A Day of Judgment is the most recent book, and A Deadly Cost is dated 2027. Short stories and standalone novels round out the list.

Hospitals supply the setting for Candace Calvert's fiction. Her 10 books are Christian romance with medical and suspense plots, following nurses, physicians, police officers and firefighters through emergencies. Three series divide them: Mercy Hospital, Grace Medical and Crisis Team. Critical Care (2009) opens the catalogue and Maybe It's You (2017) closes it, with nothing added since 2017.

Sarah Morgan writes contemporary and medical romance, with 119 books catalogued from Expectant Bride (1999) to The Best Christmas Ever (2026). Physicians, nurses, billionaires and Italians are among the recorded subjects, and early titles include The Doctor's Engagement (2001), The Midwife's Child (2001) and The Greek Tycoon's Bride (2002). Series lines include From Manhattan With Love, Lakeside Mountain Rescue, Glenmore Island Doctors, Cornish Consultants, O'Neil Brothers and Miller Sisters.

Cassie Alexander is an American writer and nurse whose catalogue mixes urban fantasy, paranormal romance and medical fiction. The 40 books run from Nightshifted (2012) to Guarded by the AI (2025), with Moonshifted and Shapeshifted also from 2012 and Deadshifted (2013) and Bloodshifted (2014) after them. Series include Edie Spence, Dark Ink Tattoo, Sleeping With Monsters, Moth and the Monster, Prince of the Other Worlds and Wardens of the Other Worlds. Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifting and gay romance appear among the subjects.

Donna Douglas writes historical sagas about nurses. The Nightingale Girls (2012) opens a catalogue of 19 books that reaches A Nurse's Secret (2025). Three series are catalogued: the Nightingales, the Yorkshire Blitz books and Steeple Street. Nurses, hospitals, London and English social life across the First and Second World Wars carry the work, and Douglas remains actively publishing.

Jill Paton Walsh, 1937 to 2020, was an English novelist and children's writer, born Gillian Bliss and later Baroness Hemingford. Knowledge of Angels, nominated for the Booker Prize, stands among the best known of the work, along with the Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mysteries that continued Dorothy L. Sayers's series. The Imogen Quy mysteries follow, with the University of Cambridge among the catalogued subjects, beside a long run of children's fiction on history and the Second World War. The catalogue lists 48 titles dated 1965 to 2013, opening with Wordhoard: Anglo-Saxon Stories (1965) and taking in Fireweed (1969), The Dolphin Crossing (1970), Goldengrove (1972) and The Emperor's Winding Sheet (1974). The Late Scholar (2013) is the last catalogued title.

Mignon G. Eberhart was an American mystery novelist, born 6 July 1899 and died 8 October 1996, with a writing career running from the 1920s into the 1980s. Sarah Keate, a nurse, is her recurring detective, introduced in The Patient in Room 18 (1929); Susan Dare heads a second series from The Cases of Susan Dare (1934). Hospitals, Chicago and women sleuths recur in the subjects. The listing holds 66 books through to a 2007 story collection.

Al Lacy / Bill Reno is a catalogue entry holding 63 books published between 1980 and 2011. The earliest titles, such as Dead Man's Noose and Twin Colts (1980), carry the name Morgan Hill. Series include Badge, Angel of Mercy, Battles of Destiny and Journeys of the Stranger. Subjects include Christian westerns, the American Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh, nurses, frontier and pioneer life and women pioneers.

Diana Palmer is the pen name of Susan Kyle, born Susan Spaeth on December 11, 1946, an American novelist publishing romance since 1979. Kyle spent sixteen years as a journalist under the name Susan Spaeth before turning to fiction, and has also written as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie and Susan Kyle, with a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle. The catalogue lists 199 books from 1979 to 2026, opening with titles such as Dream's End and Sweet Enemy and reaching Blaze of Glory (2026). Wyoming Men, Soldiers of Fortune, Men of Medicine Ridge and Morcai Battalion are among the series, and Long, Tall Texans is a listed grouping. Diamond Girl became a 1998 television film. Subjects name ranchers, cowboys, Texas, Wyoming and western romance.

Amy Andrews is an Australian romance author with 99 books in the catalogue, from The Midwife's Miracle Baby (2005) to One Night with the Doctor (2026), and Rough and Ready announced for 2027. Andrews has written contemporary romance for Harlequin Mills & Boon, Entangled, Harper Collins, Momentum, Tule and Escape, with translations into thirteen languages. Andrews spent six years on the national executive of Romance Writers of Australia and served two years as its president. Subjects include medical romance, nurses and physicians. Series include Prognosis, Sydney Smoke Rugby, Outback Heat and Brisbane General Hospital.

Carol Marinelli writes contemporary romance, including medical romance, and has 137 books in the catalogue from The Outback Nurse (2001) to Italian's Cinderella Temptation (2025). Born in England to Scottish parents, Marinelli emigrated to Australia and lives in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. Marinelli first tried writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon while training as a nurse in London and gathered rejections for years before studying the detailed feedback in them. Early titles include The Emergency Assignment and The Pregnant Intern (both 2002). Series include House of Kolovsky, Irresistible Russian Tycoons, Tennengarrah Clinic, Playboys of Sicily and Ruthless Royal Sheikhs.

Teresa Southwick's 76 catalogued books run from Reckless River (1994) to A Matchmaker's Challenge (2020), with the 2000s the most productive decade. Catalogue subjects include contemporary and western romance, physicians, nurses, nannies, single mothers and Montana. Series include Men of Mercy Medical, Bachelors of Blackwater Lake, Marchetti Siblings, Destiny, Texas, Buy-A-Guy, Nanny Network and Brothers of Bha'Khar. Southwick was born in California and writes contemporary and historical romance novels.

Eileen Dreyer

44 books• 12 series

Eileen Dreyer is an American author of contemporary romance, historical romance and suspense who also publishes as Kathleen Korbel. Dreyer has won the RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America five times, entered its Hall of Fame in 1995 and appeared on Jeopardy! in 2014. The catalogue lists 44 books from 1986, when Playing The Game and A Stranger's Smile came out under the Korbel name, to Just One Kiss (2026). Series include Drake's Rakes, Drake's Damsels, Daughters of Myth, Molly Burke and Fairy Godmothers.

Medical romance shapes Fiona Lowe's catalogue: physicians, nurses, marriage and contemporary romance head the recorded subjects, with Australia among the settings. The 36 books run from 2006, the year of Her Miracle Baby, Pregnant on Arrival and The Nurse's Longed-For Family, to The Drowning (2026). Later titles include A Woman To Belong To (2007), A Wedding In Warragurra (2008) and Miracle: Twin Babies (2009). Medicine River is the series recorded for Lowe, all 36 books carry Lowe's credit, and the catalogue is marked as ongoing.

Lene Kaaberbol writes fantasy for children as well as crime and detective fiction. Shamer titles include The Shamer's Daughter (2000), The Shamer's Signet (2001) and The Shamer's War (2003), part of the Shamer Chronicles. Kaaberbol also wrote W.I.T.C.H. Adventures books and the Wildwitch series. Nina Borg and Madeleine Karno are two more series, and The Considerate Killer (2013) is the last of 20 catalogued books, which start with Midnight (1994).

Nadine Dorries, born Nadine Vanessa Bargery on 21 May 1957 in Liverpool, is a British author and former politician. Dorries represented Mid Bedfordshire as a Conservative MP from 2005 to 2023 and was Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2021 to 2022. Dorries began work as a trainee nurse in Warrington. The catalogue lists 17 books from 2014 to 2022 and the Four Streets Saga, Lovely Lane, Tarabeg and Bellfont Legacy series, with subject tags on sagas, nurses, orphans, family secrets, Ireland and England.

Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984) was an American writer, and two children's series carry her name: Sue Barton, about a nurse, and Carol Page, about an actor. Fourteen books are catalogued between 1927 and 1983, with the 1940s the busiest decade in the listing. Recorded subjects include nurses, nursing students, hospital wards, rural nursing, the Henry Street Settlement in New York and acting. Titles include Sue Barton, Student Nurse (1936), Sue Barton, Rural Nurse (1939), Carol Goes Backstage (1941) and Travels with Zenobia (1983).

Anne Perry

111 books• 14 series

Anne Perry (28 October 1938 – 10 April 2023), born Juliet Marion Hulme, was a British writer of historical detective fiction. Perry wrote the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novels and the William Monk series. In 1994 it became public that Perry, at fifteen, had been convicted in 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand, of murdering Honorah Parker, mother of Perry's friend Pauline Parker; after a five-year sentence, Perry took a new name and returned to the United Kingdom. The catalogue holds 111 Perry books, opening with The Cater Street Hangman (1979) and reaching Death Times Seven (2026). Other series include Daniel Pitt, Elena Standish, Timepiece and Tathea.

Janette Oke, born Janette Steeves on 18 February 1935, is a Canadian author of inspirational fiction, often set in pioneer times with women as the lead characters. Bethany House published Love Comes Softly, the first Oke novel, in 1979. When Calls the Heart (1983) opened the Canadian West series and became the basis for a television series with the same title. The catalogue holds 79 Oke books, with The Pharisee's Wife (2025) the newest. Series include Love Comes Softly, Prairie Legacy, Women of the West, Song of Acadia and Janette Oke's Animal Friends. Subjects include women pioneers, Canada and Christian fiction.

Debra Webb, born 1958, is an American author of suspense novels and a USA Today bestseller. The catalogue credits Webb with 180 books from 1999 to 2026, starting with Tempting Trace (1999). Series include Colby Agency, Faces of Evil, Undertaker's Daughter, Shades of Death, Lookout Mountain Mysteries and Winchester, Tennessee. Subjects cover romantic suspense, private investigators, serial murderers and missing persons. The Woman I've Become (2026) is the newest title.

Karen Rose Smith is an American author born in Pennsylvania whose first romance appeared in 1992. Smith has written for Meteor/Kismet, Kensington, Silhouette and Harlequin, and has indie-published novels and short story collections as e-books. Awards include New Jersey's Golden Leaf Award for short contemporary romance (twice), CRA's Award of Excellence and the Golden Quill for Traditional Romance. The catalogue lists 124 books from A Man Worth Loving (1992) to If Books Could Kill (2026). Mystery lines include Caprice De Luca Mystery and Daisy's Tea Garden Mysteries.

Lindsay McKenna is the pseudonym of Eileen Nauman, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1964 to 1967 and has also been a volunteer firefighter, an EMT in Arizona and a pilot. Nauman is known as the Top Gun of Women's Military Fiction. The catalogue records 148 books from Captive of Fate (1983) to No Turning Back (2024). Morgan's Mercenaries and its sub-series, Delos, Wind River Valley, Shadow Team and Black Jaguar Squadron are among the series, and military veterans, cowboys and Wyoming appear in the subjects alongside romantic suspense.

Rochelle Alers, born August 7, 1943, is an American romance novelist who has also written as Susan James and Rena McLeary. The catalogue lists 95 books from Careless Whispers (1988) to A Maverick of Honor (2026). Subjects cover African American romance, contemporary and historical romance, widows and New Orleans. Series include Hideaway Legacy, Eatons, Wickham Falls Weddings, Cavanaugh Island, Blackstones of Virginia and Whitfield Brides. Hideaway (1995) is among the titles.