First Kiss #28

Helen Scott’s love life is stuck in the dugout, while her younger sister Gail seems to attract men with ease. Hoping to change her luck, Gail suggests Helen spend a week at Paradise Lodge—where the air is thick with romance and the only thing hotter than the summer heat might be the attention she’s about to get.

A stewardess named Judy has secretly harbored feelings for her pilot, Keith Douglas, for far too long—until a layover in Honolulu gives her the chance to finally spend time with him, and a brush with danger at thirty thousand feet changes everything. What begins as pity morphs into genuine love, and Keith realizes that Judy means far more to him than he ever imagined. In this 1962 romance, a simple dinner date becomes the beginning of something neither of them expected to find at cruising altitude.

Lotus Lee, raised in America but bound by tradition, faces an arranged marriage to a man she’s never met. Torn between duty and her own desires, she makes the bold decision to walk away from a life she didn’t choose.

Georgia thinks she’s the luckiest girl in Jefferson High when Biff Johnson chooses her, but her feelings shift when she witnesses Biff and his friends mocking Clark Davis in the cafeteria. A quiet moment of empathy sets the stage for something deeper than a high school crush.