Lovelorn #22

When a college basketball player named Pete can't seem to focus on anything but the game—even on a romantic moonlit night—Norah finds herself drawn to Biff, the charming basketball star who sweeps her off her feet with his attention and newfound wealth. But as Norah grows closer to Biff and agrees to marry him, she discovers there's far more to her fiancé's sudden success than meets the eye, and Pete's cryptic warnings about the Mastons may hold the key to the truth she's been missing.

Mary has spent her life shadowed by a secret she never chose—her father's prison sentence for a crime he couldn't prove he didn't commit—and she's learned to hide the hurt beneath a careful exterior as she escaped to New York for a fresh start. When a chance encounter with a kind stranger named Bill Laurence sparks genuine romance for the first time, Mary finally dares to believe she might leave her painful past behind, but the shadow of her father's past threatens to cloud her newfound happiness.

Joan wins a fabulous contest prize—a honeymoon trip to Paris complete with lingerie and pearls—but there's one catch: the contest rules require her to be a bride or engaged woman, and she's neither. Desperate to keep the prizes and escape Hugh Gladstone's cold scrutiny, Joan convinces a smooth-talking acquaintance named Cal to pose as her fiancé, only to discover that her heart belongs to Hugh all along. As the tangled web of deception closes in around her, Joan finds herself caught between the man she's forced to pretend to love and the man she truly does.

When Pat Clarke returns to her father's lumber camp for the summer, she expects to reunite with Bill Webster, the reliable son of the company president—but instead she's flown in by Joe O'Brien, a charming smoke-jumper with a dangerous invention and a gift for getting under everyone's skin. As Pat finds herself drawn between Bill's steady devotion and Joe's reckless charm, a forest fire and a controversial parachute test will force her to choose what kind of love—and life—she really wants.