Glamorous Romances #57

Adaire Radley arrives in the city hoping for romance, only to spend a lonely Christmas Eve until she meets the charming Norward Murray at a cafeteria—a stranger who suggests they shop for a tree together and offers to share her holiday. What Adaire doesn't realize is that Norward has his own agenda, and the evening takes an unexpected turn when she discovers the truth about who he really is and why he sought her out.

A young woman from a small town finds herself caught between loyalty and conscience when her glamorous employer—a serial dater juggling multiple suitors—asks her to lie on her behalf to one particularly promising prospect, Dave Fowler. When the weight of deception becomes unbearable, she takes a stand that costs her both her job and her home, only to have fate intervene in the most unexpected way on a street corner that very night. What unfolds is a collision of honesty and second chances that neither of them saw coming.

A young woman lives a carefully divided life: by day she's a quiet, studious college student hoping to marry Jay Lawton, a professor's son with dreams of a respectable academic future; by night, she's Undine, the glamorous mermaid performer at the Sea Shell nightclub, a secret she's kept to finance her education and secure the stable life her late mother always wanted for her. When Jay and the college faculty begin crusading against the nightclub itself, her double identity threatens to unravel everything she's worked toward.

When Vidette wins a modeling contest and chooses New York over her longtime boyfriend Ned, she never expects him to actually let her go—but he does, permanently. Now Peggy Wylie, Vidette's devoted best friend who's harbored her own feelings for Ned all along, finds herself the one he turns to for dates and eventually marriage. Yet as a new bride in a small town where everyone watched this love triangle unfold, Peggy can't shake the fear that she's merely Ned's second choice, picked to prove a point to the girl who left him behind.