Love Letters #15

Peggy Phillips has always been the pal—the girl everyone trusts with their problems and calls on for last-minute dates—while her childhood friend Steve Winston pours out his troubles about his on-and-off romance with Helen Kirby. When Peggy finds herself the only unmarried woman left in her circle, she begins to wonder if being everybody's confidante has cost her a chance at love, especially as she realizes her true feelings for Steve run deeper than friendship. As Steve prepares to leave town for a few months of study, Peggy discovers that the role she's played so well may have kept her from the one thing she truly wants.

A country girl named Lucy Mitchell arrives in the city to start fresh, landing a job at an insurance office where she meets the kind and handsome Keith Foster—only to find herself caught between her growing feelings for him and the glamorous Rita Downing, who seems determined to remind Lucy she doesn't belong. When Keith's attention to Lucy draws Rita's jealous ire, Lucy must face a painful truth about where she really fits in his world.

Lila Reed is all set to marry the suitable Foster Monroe—her family's choice, her social standing assured—but then Randy Blaire arrives as a new neighbor, an artist renting the guest house next door, and something ignites between them that neither can ignore. As their secret romance deepens over stolen afternoons, Lila finds herself torn between duty to her engagement and a love that feels true for the first time, forced to confront an impossible choice as her wedding day approaches. When Randy disappears with only a letter of goodbye, Lila must decide whether to go through with the ceremony—or risk everything for her heart.

When Jane Dell's uncle dies leaving debts, she's forced to auction off her family home and possessions—including a desk that's all she has left of her father. Desperate to save it, she agrees to marry Fred Sykes, the banker's son, after he promises to buy the desk at auction, but her resolve crumbles when she meets the kind and sympathetic Jimmy Forest, Berna Mason's fiancé. As the auction unfolds, Jane discovers that nothing is quite what it seemed, and the desk becomes the key to unmasking the true motives of everyone around her.