Love Secrets #34

Nancy, a welfare worker, accepts a daring wager from her wealthy suitor Paul: she'll rehabilitate a down-and-out man from Skid Row, or she'll abandon her job and marry him. When she hires Joe, a proud derelict, as a handyman, his transformation—and her unexpected feelings—threaten to upend everything she thought she wanted. Watch as Nancy's good intentions collide with emotions neither of them anticipated in this 1953 romance.

Mary Collins learns she has only a year to live, but rather than burden Tom with a doomed marriage, she devises a heartbreaking plan: secretly coach her friend Gwen to win his heart, then stage a cruel betrayal to drive him away forever. As Mary orchestrates her own sacrifice, she must decide whether love means letting go—even if it means Tom will despise her for it.

Blanche has spent her whole life using feigned frailty to escape responsibility, coddled by her overprotective mother—until she meets the strong-willed Cliff Connel at a summer resort and discovers he has no patience for her act. When a storm strands the group on an island and her father is injured, Cliff forces Blanche to stop hiding behind pretense and face what she's truly capable of, whether she likes it or not.