Real Love #27

When a young woman meets her office friend's brother Jon on a double date, the instant attraction between them ignites into something neither expected—but their budding romance begins to strain her friendship with Helen and create unexpected tensions within both families. As Laurie and Jon grow closer, misunderstandings and jealousy threaten to unravel the bonds that brought them together in the first place.

A singer nursing a wounded heart travels to Havana with one burning goal: to make Del Marlowe pay for the heartbreak he's caused her brother. When Marlowe—a charming but ruthless bandleader—falls for her at the Casino, she sees her chance for revenge, but the arrival of an unexpected admirer threatens to complicate her carefully laid plans in "Revenge Conquest," brought to you from Real Love #27 (1949).

Penny Starr, the star bareback rider of the Langly Circus, finds herself caught between two men when Hugo Sprague—the older equipment manager who's long harbored feelings for her—makes a dangerous threat after she falls for Roy Daley, the trapeze artist who just joined the show. Desperate to protect Roy from Hugo's threat of sabotage, Penny makes a choice that sets off a chain of heartbreak and misunderstanding at the circus.

Connie admires her glamorous coworker Sheila Manners so much that when Sheila invites her to move into her apartment, she jumps at the chance—only to discover she's become little more than Sheila's unpaid housekeeper while Sheila dates around town. A mysterious and handsome young man named Bob Foster begins appearing at the Sutter Cafeteria where Connie eats dinner alone, watching her until he finally gets up the nerve to introduce himself. As Connie and Bob grow closer, wearing one of Sheila's cast-off dresses to impress him, she finds herself caught between the life she envied and the one she's beginning to build with someone who sees her for who she really is.