Confessions of the Lovelorn #88

Susan arrives at her Aunt Ella's country home for a restorative rest, only to discover that her well-meaning aunt has decided it's high time she found a husband—and is determined to play matchmaker whether Susan likes it or not. When Susan catches wind of Aunt Ella's latest scheme, she devises a plan to sabotage the setup by dressing down and disappearing, but her encounter with Ben Connors doesn't go quite as calculated. As Susan finds herself genuinely drawn to this charming stranger despite her intentions, she begins to realize that outsmarting Aunt Ella might prove far more complicated than she bargained for.

A young woman from rural West Virginia reinvents herself in New York City, determined to escape poverty and build a new life through sheer ambition and determination. When she lands a job as secretary to Philip Henline, a wealthy Wall Street broker, she crafts an elaborate false background to win his heart—but her carefully constructed façade begins to crack as genuine feelings develop between them. As Philip grows closer to the woman he believes her to be, she faces an impossible choice between the life she's built on lies and the chance at real love.

Kate Nelson thinks she's found the answer to Washington, D.C.'s hopeless dating ratio: a winter ski trip where men outnumber women. But when a skiing mishap leaves her injured and helpless, she discovers that vulnerability—not her looks or brains—finally gets the attention she's been chasing, particularly from a kind doctor named Howard Spears. What begins as gratitude develops into something deeper as Kate learns that sometimes the luckiest breaks in life have nothing to do with planning.