My Romantic Adventures #77

Raised on an army post and shaped by her career officer father, Grace Collins has always dismissed romance as silly nonsense—until a chance encounter with Cal Hopkins, a restless soldier, forces her to reconsider everything she thought she believed. When Cal persuades her to spend an evening with him, Grace discovers that the feelings she'd trained herself to ignore might be impossible to deny after all. As their connection deepens, she finds herself caught between the disciplined world that raised her and a heart she never knew she had.

A woman haunted by her youthful romance with Ted Phillips, a carefree truckdriver she once loved, throws herself into building a successful supermarket empire—only to find herself still unable to escape his memory years later. Now a successful businesswoman at 25, Mary Blakely hires detectives to track him down, driven by the conviction that seeing him again will prove he's beneath her and finally free her from his spell. What she discovers when she finds him in Detroit forces her to confront the real reason she's been searching all along.

Jordan Teague loses his fiancée Mona in a tragic boating accident, only to encounter her identical twin sister Iris at the funeral—and finds himself drawn to her with an intensity that blurs the line between grief and a new love. As months pass and Jordan's feelings for Iris deepen, he's tormented by confusion about what he truly feels, until Iris suddenly disappears, leaving him to grapple with loss all over again. Desperate to reclaim what he's lost, Jordan devises a bold plan to bring her back into his life.

Roberta arrives at university with her high school sweetheart Ricky, but the campus transforms everything when she crosses paths with the confident and magnetic Hank Pedersen—a charming senior whose attention sends her heart spinning in an entirely new direction. As Roberta finds herself caught between the boy who's always loved her and the one who thrills her, she discovers that even the strongest feelings can take unexpected turns.