Campus Loves #4

Wendy Marsh, the feared gossip columnist "The Tattler" at Clermont College, cuts down athletes in print without a second thought—until she's set up on a blind date with Bob McLean, a pitcher she'd just savagely attacked in her column. As Wendy realizes Bob is intelligent, thoughtful, and nothing like the brainless jock she'd portrayed, she finds herself falling for him, but her secret identity threatens everything. When Bob discovers who she really is, Wendy's heartbreak transforms into something far more destructive than her original gossip.

In "Taunted Heart," college student Margie, still reeling from her mother’s abandonment and the town’s judgmental eyes, makes a defiant choice: she begins dating Cal, a wealthy playboy known for his reckless charm. As their relationship deepens, Margie discovers Cal is engaged to a woman from his world—then faces a harsh truth when he takes her to a roadhouse and dismisses her with a cruel remark about her reputation. Just as she’s left reeling, Stan, a quiet admirer who’s long watched over her, steps in to protect her, leaving Margie with a quiet hope that someday, her heart might find its true match.

Clare Madison, a crusading reporter for the Daily Call, heads to Marbury to expose what looks like a philanthropist's shady dealings—only to collide literally (and romantically) with Sean Connelly, a geology professor who's deeply indebted to the very man Clare is investigating. Now Clare must navigate her professional instincts and her sudden, overwhelming feelings for Sean as their opposing convictions about the university's founder threaten to keep them apart.

Julie Preston, a brilliant scholarship girl who's never learned the rules of romance, finally gets her chance when the most popular man on campus, Cliff Warren, asks her out—but her scholarly intensity and nervousness threaten to ruin everything. When a charming new boarder named Russell Scott takes her under his wing to teach her the art of being a woman, Julie must navigate conflicting feelings and her own insecurity to discover whether she can win back Cliff's attention at the prom.