Lovelorn #34

An overworked stenographer supporting her two sisters keeps her heart carefully guarded—until she meets a charming park artist who seems like an idle dreamer, only to discover he's far more than he appears. When Ned Harris sweeps into her life with sketches and flattery, Sheila must navigate her growing feelings against her own hard-won principles, while her scheming sister Deri pursues him for wealth and little Patty plays matchmaker with a secret agenda. "Portrait of Love" captures a woman caught between the man she's falling for and the doubts that threaten to keep her locked away.

Barbara Cort dreams of escaping her secretarial job through marriage to a wealthy man, and her scheme seems to pay off when she meets the charming Nick at a fashionable resort—until she discovers he's a career criminal and forces her into an impossible choice between loyalty to the man she loves and her own conscience. As Barbara finds herself caught between Nick's dangerous world and the genuine kindness of Jack Brown, a local shopkeeper, she learns that the life she trapped herself into has become her own prison.

When a young woman and her fiancé can't seem to stop quarreling—their passion for each other matched only by their hair-trigger tempers—they decide marriage might be the cure. But the night before the wedding, a chance encounter with an old flame ignites one final, explosive argument that threatens to derail everything. As Sheila and Bob face the very real possibility of calling it all off, they discover what their constant bickering has really been hiding all along.