Love Confessions #23
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Foolish Conquest" follows a woman named Penny who uses flattery and manipulation to attract men, believing she can have any man she wants. When she pursues a man named Ken, she employs various tactics to get his attention, including trying to make his friend Ruth jealous. However, Ken sees through her schemes and ultimately chooses Ruth instead, leaving Penny's arrogant assumptions about her power over men thoroughly deflated. The story includes a subplot involving Jim, a boxer whom Marty encourages to pursue a career in fighting, though the evening ends poorly when Jim becomes bored and leaves early.
Rita works at Eric Mattson's garage and auto sales office, where the devoted owner has made his romantic feelings clear—but her heart belongs elsewhere, to the charming and reckless Nicky Harris, whom she's been seeing despite warnings from her Aunt Julia. When Rita convinces Eric to hire Nicky at the garage, she hopes a steady job might transform the lazy drifter into someone worthy of her affection. But as Nicky's true nature begins to show at work, Rita finds herself caught between the man she loves and the man who loves her, forced to face hard truths about the choice she's made.
Engaged to Ted Russell, Lois grows convinced he's two-timing her when she spots him repeatedly with another woman—and hurt pride drives her to accept a date with Barney Dodds, a persistent suitor from her restaurant job. A single reckless night of revenge and cheap thrills with Barney seems to seal her fate, until an unexpected encounter forces the truth into the open and gives her a chance to understand what Ted was really doing all along.
Penny Raynor's vanity has always been her greatest weakness—when she learns that Ken Chapman, an ambitious salesman, has caught her eye, she launches a calculated campaign to win his affection, even as she's engaged to the devoted Fred De Landers. What starts as a game of ego becomes something far more dangerous when Penny realizes her feelings for Ken have turned genuine, and she'll stop at nothing to make him notice her at Ruth's party. But her foolish conquest may come at a cost she never anticipated.
Nancy's heart is divided when she falls for Marty Joyce, an ambitious young boxer managed by Al Graw—only to discover her brother Jim, a former fighter who warned her away from the ring, could be the key to helping Marty prepare for a crucial bout against the formidable Lou Damon. When Marty's pride and Jim's hard-won wisdom collide, Nancy finds herself caught between the man she loves and the brother she's always relied on, watching her carefully kept secret unravel with painful consequences.
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Reprinted in Love Secrets #36 (1954), Girls in Love #46 (1955), Girls in Love #47 (1955), Exotic Romances #23 (1955), Girls in Love #48 (1955)
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