Jane Converse

Biography

As an author for Silhouette Romance, Jane Converse published several novels. She started her writing career in the 1960's writing the very popular Doctor/Nurse romances. Converse was the pseudonym of Adela Maritano, who was born in 1918. Maritano also co-wrote novels with her husband, Gale Maritano under the name Adela Gale, Kay Martin[1], and Leslie Seabrook. Maritano passed away in 2002[2].

According to her obituary, Maritano lived in Santa Cruz, Mexico, and Los Angeles. She published over 80 novels, several of which have been reissued by the Linford Romance Library from 1990 onward.

Books

• Accused Nurse - November 1974 (Signet)

• Alias Miss Saunders, R.N. - October 1964 (Signet)

• Angel Among Witches - 1969 (Prestige) (as Adela Gale)

• Art Colony Nurse - July 1969 (Signet)

• Backstage Nurse - November 1969 (Signet)

• Beth Lloyd, Surgical Nurse - December 1970 (Signet)

• Cinderella Nurse - September 1967 (Signet)

• Condemned Nurse - 1971 (Signet)

• The Coral Sea - September 1983 (Silhouette/Simon & Schuster)

• Crusading Nurse - 1968 (Signet)

• Dr. Holland's Nurse - 1963 (Signet)

• Emergency Nurse - March 1962 (Signet)

• Expedition Nurse - 1965 (Signet)

• A Flight for Dreamers - November 1980 (Dell)

• Harvest of Terror - September 1969 (Signet)(as Adela Gale)

• Heartbreak Nurse - December 1968 (Signet)

• Heartstorm - August 1982 (Silhouette/Simon & Schuster)

• Hometown Nurse - 1968 (Signet)

• Hostage Nurse - April 1973 (Signet)

• Ice Show Nurse - 1970 (Signet)

• Jet Set Nurse - 1970 (Signet)

• Masquerade Nurse - 1968 (Signet)

• Mist of Blossoms - December 1982 (Silhouette/Simon & Schuster)

• Moonlit Path - January 1982 (Silhouette Romance #129)

• Obstetrical Nurse - 197? (Signet)

• Nurse Against the Town - 1966 (Signet)

• Nurse Forrester's Secret - January 1965 (Signet)

• Nurse in Acapulco - 1964 (Signet)

• Nurse in Charge - March 1969 (Signet)

• Nurse in Crisis - 1966 (Signet)

• Nurse in Danger - 1964 (Signet)

• Nurse in Hollywood - 1965 (Signet)

• Nurse in Las Vegas - 1975 (Signet)

• Nurse in London - July 1970 (Signet)

• Nurse in Panic - December 1971 (Signet)

• Nurse in Rome - May 1967 (Signet)

• Nurse in Turmoil - 1974 (Signet)

• Nurse on the Riveria - 1969 (Signet)

• Nurse on Trial - 1966 (Signet)

• Paradise Postponed - February 1982 (Silhouette/Simon & Schuster)

• The Party Nurses - July 1974 (Signet)

• Penthouse Nurse - April 1974 (Signet)

• Recruiting Nurse - 1968 (Signet)

• Second Chance Nurse - 1962 (Signet)

• Settlement House Nurse - 1965 (Signet)

• Society Nurse - 1975 (Signet)

• Surf Safari Nurse - 1966 (Signet)

• Terry Allen, Nurse in Love - 1970 (Signet)

• Thrill Show Nurse - 1975 (Signet)

• Undercover Nurse - February 1972 (Signet)

• Winter Resort Nurse - 1973 (Signet)

• The Young Nurses - 1969 (Signet)