Lovelorn #42
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Lovelorn #42 This anthology issue contains at least two stories. "Kayo Kisses" follows Dot Hanley, who falls in love with a boxer named Rocky Morrison after meeting him at a college spring prom, only to discover that his violent career in the ring conflicts with her dreams of a peaceful domestic life. The second story chronicles a woman named Grace who uses a "helpless" technique to manipulate men, including donating blood to attract a man named Paul at a hospital, but ultimately finds herself used and discarded when the men lose interest once she no longer serves their purposes. A third story appears to involve a woman named Valerie Stone who becomes a successful model and businesswoman, discovering that her beauty has tripled soap sales when her picture is used in advertising.
A smooth-talking sailor's reputation as a heartbreaker gets put to the test when he meets Mary in Liverpool—a woman whose genuine warmth and sweetness makes him question everything he thought he wanted. But when a well-meaning friend's interference exposes the bet that launched their romance, Don discovers that some damage can't be charmed away, no matter how sincere his feelings have become.
A college romance blooms when Dot Hanley meets Robert Morrison—a charming, intelligent senior who also happens to be Rocky Morrison, a rising heavyweight boxer determined to strike it rich in the ring. As Dot grows to love both Rocky and the fierce beauty of his fights, she begins pressing him to reach for bigger opportunities, unknowingly setting in motion a chain of events that will test everything she believed about the man she fell for. "Kayo Kisses" explores what happens when ambition, devotion, and moral compromise collide in the unforgiving world of professional boxing.
Ellen Chambers built a reputation on helplessness—a technique that charmed every boy until she met Doctor Paul Stacy and discovered that real love demands something different. When Ellen's refusal to take on any responsibility threatens to pull them apart, she's forced to confront the difference between playing weak and actually being needed.
Valerie Stone, the sharp-minded head of a small advertising agency, spots Bob Merton—a rugged settlement house instructor—in a newspaper photo and recruits him as her star model, seeing only dollar signs in his good looks. As Bob's career skyrockets through her brilliant promotion, he develops genuine feelings for her, but Valerie insists their arrangement is strictly business—until a moment on set awakens something in her too, and she finds herself caught between the fortune she's building and emotions she never planned to feel. When a rival threatens to pull Bob away to Hollywood, a careless confession unmasks Valerie's true heart in the cruelest way possible.
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