Heart Throbs #31

A young woman's lifelong insecurity about her height threatens to keep her from love—until she meets Vince Collins, a boss who seems genuinely unconcerned with how she towers over him. But when a petite coworker named Belle Lewis returns from vacation and sets her sights on Vince, Monica finds herself in a desperate battle for his affection, willing to completely remake herself to compete. In this 1954 romance tale, a woman must confront what she's willing to sacrifice for love, and whether the real problem was ever her height at all.

When Alice Reed's fiancé Jack Colby loses his job and abruptly leaves town rather than marry without the security he'd promised her, Alice sets out to find him—and discovers that sometimes the most direct path to the heart runs right through the radio waves. With hope fading fast, she takes a desperate chance on Gary Bennett's disc jockey show, hoping Jack will hear her message and understand that love matters more than circumstances.

Helen MacLane has built up an impossible ideal in her mind—a dream man of perfection she's never met—and turned down every real suitor in town, including the handsome Bert Thompson and earnest Eddie Darrel. When she finally spots Doug, a new boy in town who matches her fantasy, she's determined to meet him, and fate intervenes when Eddie reappears with a chance to introduce them. But as Helen's dream date unfolds, reality starts to clash with the vision she's cherished for so long.

A woman waits years for her boyfriend Greg Miller to return from Korea, only to find their reunion tested when his ambitions for education clash with her career success at a cosmetics company. As misunderstanding and hurt drive them apart, both must reckon with what they're willing to sacrifice for love. Will Helen and Greg find their way back to each other, or have they waited too long?