Heart Throbs #2

When Kent Rawlins glimpses the mesmerizing dancer Tari at the Flamingo Club, he becomes utterly entranced—so much so that he abandons his promising career, his home, and the woman who loves him to follow her to the remote island of Manalao. Once there, Kent discovers that Tari's exotic allure masks something far more calculating, as his dreams of paradise begin to unravel in ways he never anticipated. This 1949 romance weaves a cautionary tale of desire overwhelming reason, with Sue Ives left to witness the man she loves fall under a spell she can neither break nor fully understand.

During Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the restless and thrill-seeking Colette Armand grows increasingly dissatisfied with her reliable but unromantic fiancé Paul Dupres—until she meets the dashing John Lee at a party and agrees to meet him at the masquerade ball. When a mysterious pirate arrives at the ball, Colette finds herself enchanted by his charm and passion, swept up in the excitement she's been craving—but as the evening unfolds, her heart grows conflicted, torn between the exhilaration of the moment and something deeper she can't quite name. When midnight comes and the masks must come off, Colette discovers that not everything at Mardi Gras is what it seems.

Sherry Lane finds herself torn between the mild-mannered Jeff Borden and the dashing, exciting Chick Vance, a club proprietor who sweeps her off her feet with promises of glamour and danger. As Sherry becomes entangled in Vance's world of gambling and nightlife, she agrees to marry him—but a chance encounter with Jeff forces her to confront truths about the man she's chosen. What she discovers in those final moments will test everything she thought she wanted.

Mona Dawson, a ruthless star reporter for the Daily Tabloid, will stop at nothing—lying, scheming, even crashing a yacht—to land a story about millionaire Don Hampden and his mysterious connection to Gloria Dawn. But when a water-logged accident throws her into Don's company, she discovers the people behind the headline are far kinder than she expected, and her famous bulletproof heart begins to crack in ways she never saw coming.