I Love You #48

When Amy's family returns to Lake Orange for summer, she learns devastating news: Pete Jensen, her longtime sweetheart and the boy she's met there every June, was supposedly killed in a car accident months earlier. Refusing to accept that Pete is gone without proof, Amy and her brother Skip drive to the accident site to investigate—only to uncover details that suggest Pete may not have been in the car after all. As Amy pieces together new clues, she begins to hope that Pete might still be out there somewhere, waiting to be found.

A young woman stationed in Japan watches the boy she loves grow smitten with her Japanese friend Katsui, and she struggles with the sting of his obvious attraction—until a dinner party and a borrowed costume shift everything. When Rick finally sees her in a new light, "What Is Japanese for Kiss?" explores how first impressions can blind us to what's been there all along.

A shy woman resigned to caring for her aging father finds herself unexpectedly drawn to her new neighbor, Roger Moody, when a stalled car forces a chance encounter between them. What begins as polite strangers discovering they share solitary dinners evolves into something neither expected when Roger finally breaks through her careful distance. In this 1963 romance from *I Love You* #48, two lonely people discover that sometimes the person next door holds the key to everything they've been missing.

A talented young woman who has known nothing but success discovers her world shattered when polio leaves her with a weakened leg and a heart full of despair. When Willie Lavelle, the theater director who once challenged her arrogance, shows up determined to prove her life isn't over, Rhea must confront whether she can accept help—or if her bitterness will cost her everything that matters.