Love at First Sight #42

Wendy Schuyler has scraped together her savings for a luxury cruise to South America with one goal: marry a wealthy, socially prominent man and escape her orphan-home past. She charms her way into the right dining room and catches the eye of the handsome and eligible Hobart Ingram, but as she pursues her plan, she can't shake the attention—and judgment—of Thorpe Tully, the ship's purser who sees through her schemes and seems to believe she's worth more than the life she's chasing.

Jeanie Everett, an anesthetist, meets Michael Chapman at the hospital and is immediately drawn to him—but her first impression is clouded when she discovers he's indulged his young niece Gwen. After Michael persistently pursues her despite his sister-in-law Irma's cold disapproval, the two marry impulsively and return home to face an unexpected reality: Irma and her children have made Michael's house their own, and Jeanie must navigate her place in a household that feels anything but welcoming to her arrival.

A young woman restless with small-town life finds her dreams of glamour and excitement suddenly within reach when a charming New York artist arrives in her town—but her engagement to a steady local man complicates everything. As Wayland Stokes paints her portrait and hints at modeling opportunities in the city, Glennon must reckon with the gap between her yearning for adventure and the life of devotion Murray has already promised her. In this 1956 romance, desire and duty collide in ways that will test what she's truly willing to sacrifice.

When a young woman named Janette quits her show-girl job at a nightclub, she catches the eye of Clive Charlton—a man who notices her striking resemblance to his ex-fiancée, the society girl Alexa Leigh. Clive offers Janette a week's work posing as his new fiancée, a scheme he frames as harmless payback against Alexa for jilting him while he was overseas. As Janette transforms into Alexa's double and moves through Clive's social circle, she finds herself drawn to him in ways that complicate what was supposed to be just a job.