Love and Marriage #14

When Matt Stover moves to the farm next door, young Wendy falls head over heels—and to her surprise, he confesses his love in return. But Matt's consumed by the sixteen-year age gap between them, convinced he's robbing her of a fair future, and no amount of reassurance seems to shake his doubts. As newlyweds, Wendy discovers that Matt's insecurity about their ages is poisoning everything from social gatherings to the clothes she wears, leaving her caught between a husband she adores and a man who refuses to believe their love is enough.

Kathy has always been a bridesmaid, never the bride—until she decides that being too available is the problem, so she moves to a new town and invents a tragic fiancé to make herself seem more desirable to the men she meets. When her handsome boss Jack Blake falls for her, everything seems to be working perfectly, but her web of lies threatens to unravel when Jack takes matters into his own hands to help her move past her "past."

Joan King accepts a summer invitation to her wealthy friend's estate, but she's hiding a secret—her family's financial struggles forced her to leave college. When she meets the charming soldier Bill Drake at a party, she plays along with the impression that she's from money, a lie that quickly spirals as Bill falls for her and proposes. Now caught between the deepening deception and her genuine love for him, Joan realizes she can't keep up the charade much longer, and the truth threatens everything.

A working girl with big ambitions takes a job at a fashionable resort, determined to meet a wealthy man who can transform her future—but as she pursues the charming and flashy Chip Morgan, she finds herself torn between his world and the genuine feelings of Jim, a kind busboy who's quietly fallen for her. With Chip hinting at something "very important and very special" to ask her, Flora must reckon with what she's been willing to overlook in her climb toward the life she thought she wanted.