Personal Love #3

Willa receives an engagement ring from Gene and dreams of their wedding day, but his insistence on building financial security first puts their plans on hold—and when his father's accident drains his savings, the waiting stretches on indefinitely. As her friends elope and move forward with their lives, Willa's patience begins to crack, and Gene's new opportunity on the road promises a future together, if she can hold on long enough to find out whether love is enough.

In 1950, office secretary Carla nurses an unrequited love for her boss Gary Tenner—until jealousy over his obvious affection for his private secretary June drives her to sabotage June's work in a bid to get her fired and take her place. When Carla's scheme succeeds and she finally lands the job she craved, she discovers that destroying June's career hasn't won Gary's heart at all, and a desperate phone call from June threatens to unravel everything she's done.

Ann has devoted herself to caring for her father since her mother's death, a role she's grown to cherish—but her fiancé Brad is growing impatient for marriage, sensing she's more attached to running the household than to their future together. When her father suddenly announces he's marrying again, Ann's world upends: she must confront why she's really been holding on so tightly, and whether she can accept the capable, kind woman now stepping into the role she once claimed as her own.