Confessions of the Lovelorn #105
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA man recalls how he reconnected with his childhood sweetheart after years apart, discovering she was engaged to another man. When he learns she is in a semi-hysterical state over her engagement, he takes advantage of her emotional vulnerability to convince her of his love and wins her away from her fiancé. The couple eventually marries, and years later they reminisce about how a doorbell ring answered their romantic destiny, leading them to a life together in a Connecticut cottage. A second story follows a student who falls for his teacher after she reads a poem in class; they develop a relationship despite the impropriety, and he struggles with guilt over potentially derailing her career before ultimately deciding to leave her to preserve her reputation and future.
Fern Simmons has spent her life in isolation on a farm, caring for her ailing Aunt Martha and knowing nothing of romance—until circumstances force her to leave home and seek work in Pine City. When she lands a job at a real estate office under the demanding Otis Gardner, she begins to build a new life, but her carefully ordered world shifts the moment she meets Ben Gardner, Otis's stepbrother, a man whose warmth and kindness awaken something in her that Otis has already claimed as his own. As Fern's heart tells her one thing while duty and gratitude pull her another way, she must navigate the dangerous territory between what she's been told to believe and what she truly feels.
Insurance agent Walter Brown is a lonely man going through the motions until he rings the doorbell of Laura Newman, a young woman with her own unfulfilled dreams of stardom. As they grow closer through chance encounters and shared confidences, Walter finds himself opening up about his secret hope of building a home in the Connecticut hills—and discovers that Laura might be the person he's been imagining waiting for him there all along.
Ed's crazy about Dot and thinks he's finally won her heart, but once she's sure of him, this practical joker cuts loose with pranks at every turn—from pricey restaurant dates to birthday party gags that leave him bewildered and embarrassed. When harmless fun starts to wear thin, Ed begins to reconsider what he really wants in a relationship, and Dot discovers that her comedy routine might have cost her more than she bargained for.
A farm girl fresh off the bus to Greenwich Village falls hard for Howard, a charming Village regular she meets at a party—but only after she reinvents herself to fit in with the bohemian crowd. As their romance deepens, Patsy's guilty conscience threatens to unravel everything, forcing her to confess the truth about who she really is. What happens next might just prove that sometimes the best romance blooms when two people finally stop pretending.
When Jean returns to Highmount College as a librarian after five years away, she's hoping to reunite with Professor Kenneth Taylor, the man she fell in love with as a graduate student before their forbidden romance forced them apart. But at a party at his home, she learns that Kenneth is engaged to Delia, a determined woman with her own ambitions—and when Delia reveals she's marrying him not for love but to advance her own plans to run the town, Jean faces an impossible choice about what to do with this dangerous secret.
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