Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Along Came Ann | 1953 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 2 | The Captain’s Table | 1953 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 3 | The Unlit Heart | 1954 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 4 | Ship’s Nurse | 1954 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 5 | Gay Cavalier | 1955 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 6 | Island for Sale | 1955 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 7 | Lover Betrayed | 1955 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 8 | Doctor in the Tropics | 1955 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 9 | Doctor Lucy | 1956 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 10 | Bachelor of Medicine | 1956 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 11 | A Cruise for Cinderella | 1956 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 12 | Huntsman’s Folly | 1956 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 13 | No Single Star | 1956 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 14 | Return to Love | 1957 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 15 | Garrison Hospital | 1957 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 16 | Master of Guise | 1957 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 17 | Moon Over Madrid | 1957 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 18 | The Last of the Logans | 1957 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 19 | Daughters of the Governor | 1958 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 20 | Someone Else’s Heart | 1958 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 21 | Life Is the Destiny | 1958 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 22 | Castle in the Mist | 1959 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 23 | The Peacock Pagoda | 1959 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 24 | Star of Oudh / On Her Majesty’s Orders | 1960 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 25 | Only a Memory / Doctor Mary Courage | 1961 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 26 | The Gay Gordons | 1961 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 27 | Sister Margarita | 1961 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 28 | The Summer’s Flower | 1961 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 29 | Spencer’s Hospital | 1961 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 30 | The Dedicated | 1962 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 31 | Doctor on Horseback | 1962 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 32 | The Piper of Laide | 1963 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 33 | Maiden Voyage | 1964 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 34 | Samaritan’s Hospital | 1965 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 35 | The Scottish Soldier | 1966 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 36 | There But for Fortune | 1966 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 37 | Random Island | 1967 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 38 | Strangers When We Meet | 1968 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 39 | Queen’s Counsel | 1968 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 40 | A Stranger in Town | 1970 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 41 | Young Doctor Mason | 1970 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 42 | Research Fellow | 1971 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 43 | A Sunset Touch | 1972 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 44 | Master of Surgery / That Wonderful Feeling | 1973 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 45 | Buccaneer’s Lady | 1981 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 46 | Wild Rivers Run | 1983 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
| 47 | From the Flames | 1983 | Vivian V.A. Stuart | Buy |
Vivian Stuart published dozens of standalone novels between 1953 and 1983, primarily romance and medical romance. Her early work reflects her own international background — titles are set aboard ships, in tropical hospitals, in Burma, Spain, and Scotland. Several feature medical professionals, drawing on her training in medicine and pathology.
Her earliest books, including Along Came Ann (1953) and Ship’s Nurse (1954), were published under the Harlequin and Mills and Boon imprints. The standalone novels span three decades and shift gradually from lighter romance toward the historical settings that would define her later military fiction.