Love Journal #21

A woman who learned to guard her heart behind demands for diamonds and furs finds herself genuinely falling for Bruce Hampton, a sharp lawyer who sees past her act—until her mercenary past catches up with her on the eve of their wedding. Nancy must confront whether Bruce can forgive the woman she was before she met him, or if the price she put on love has finally cost her everything that matters.

A young woman's desperate love for a soldier on leave leads her to persuade him into a secret marriage—but when his requested leave extension is denied and his unit ships overseas, their stolen honeymoon becomes a tense flight from the law. As Marian and Steve hide from the authorities closing in, she's forced to confront the terrible cost of the choice she made for love in this 1953 romance from Love Journal.

A young woman trapped in the backwoods falls hard for Tom Hansen, a geologist searching for oil in the swamp—a man who seems to offer escape from the crude, violent world she's always known. When a jealous suitor sets a catastrophic fire to eliminate the rival, Cissie must fight through the flames to save the one person who's given her hope. As danger closes in, both must race against time to survive, and Tom's discovery takes an unexpected turn that could change everything.