Tired and overworked, surgical resident Richard Kraft finds his protective shell shattered when, along with his physiotherapist, he begins to view the children's ward of the hospital.

Stricken by a mysterious malady, college sophomore Alice Brody has suddenly lost the use of her legs. How does a bright, beautiful, and now immoble young woman proceed with her passions? As she convalesces in a Manhattan hospital, Alice finds herself attended by a motley group of visitors: indifferent nurses, doctors both good and bad, divorcing parents, and eccentric relatives. But Alice is a creature of many charms, whose wit can enchant those bearing...

A suspense novel on a doctor who returns to work in a small town full of murky secrets, including a suspected kidnaping. But others think Dr. Helen Fielding herself has a secret. Years earlier in that town Fielding's two-year-old sister disappeared while in her care, never to be found again.

A virus born in Africa mutates into human form and kills most of a town in Massachusetts. The novel traces the efforts of two scientists to destroy the virus before it can strike again.

A woman doctor turns sleuth to catch a serial rapist and killer. She is Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe who works in the emergency room of a New York hospital. The killer marks his victims by leaving them clutching a rubber doll and when Dr. Sutcliffe's technician, another woman, is found dead holding such a doll, Dr. Sutcliffe realizes she has to move before she becomes the next victim.