Heart Throbs #24

Engaged to Lon Robertson, Dorothy is happily planning her future—until her impulsive seventeen-year-old sister Marjie begins running with a dangerous crowd, including the smooth-talking Frank Pierce. Desperate to protect her headstrong sibling, Dorothy convinces Lon to keep watch over Marjie at a party, but his heroic rescue sparks an unexpected bond that threatens everything Dorothy holds dear. As Lon and Marjie grow closer, Dorothy must confront the painful possibility that the man she loves may be falling for someone else.

A young woman heads to Anchorage, Alaska convinced that the shortage of eligible men will make finding a husband easy—but discovers that romance in the frozen north comes with unexpected complications. When she dismisses a charming mechanic named Hugh Edwards in favor of pursuing a wealthy businessman, she finds herself caught between the man she's rejected and the one who won't commit, forced to confront what she really wants. "Husband Hunter" explores whether love and security can coexist, or if chasing one means losing the other.

When Mary receives an invitation to her high school class reunion six years later, she's forced to confront the feelings she's never quite shaken for Jack—the boy who captured her heart in junior year and went on to become inseparable from her friend Jill. As the reunion unfolds and old connections resurface, Mary discovers that the past may not be as settled as she believed, and a single kiss from years ago might mean more than anyone realized. With Don and Jill back in the picture, Mary must navigate the complicated tangle of old loves and new possibilities at the reunion dance.

A woman accustomed to dating officers at Fort Winslow finds her world turned upside down when she falls for Private Johnny Randall, a humble enlisted man who makes her heart sing—but her snobbish friends' mockery and her own fear of their judgment begin to pull them apart. As Doris struggles between the man she loves and the crowd she's always belonged to, a chance encounter forces her to confront a painful truth about herself and what she's willing to sacrifice for acceptance.