Real Love #36

Fern Saunders, a young woman who’s always been drawn to adventure, takes a risky ride with a stranger named Bert Brander after missing her bus. When they witness a hit-and-run accident involving an old man, Fern is torn between fleeing and doing the right thing—especially when she realizes the man in the stolen car may be framing her. As rumors swirl and her steady boyfriend Gene grows suspicious, Fern must decide whether to come forward and clear the man’s name, even if it means risking her own reputation.

Princess O'Brien is left standing alone at the altar when her fiancé, Clyde Vance, elopes with her best friend moments before their wedding. In the aftermath, she adopts a cold, unfeeling persona, deliberately leading men on to prove she’s heartless—until her carefully constructed facade begins to crumble when she realizes her true feelings for Don Franklin, the one man she never meant to hurt.

Betty, haunted by her past as a former reformatory inmate, struggles to maintain her new life in Elmsville after her childhood friend Carma unexpectedly reappears, threatening to expose her history and jeopardize her engagement to Judge Lane’s son. As Carma insinuates herself into Betty’s life and manipulates those around her—including Gary’s sister Mae—Betty must confront the fear that her past will destroy her future, even as she tries to protect others from Carma’s schemes.

Candy finds herself caught between the Lathrop twins, Kirk and Larry, after Kirk unexpectedly proposes, disrupting their long-standing threesome. As she tries to decide between them, tensions rise when Larry insists on staying part of their dates, leaving Candy unsure of her true feelings. The story follows her journey as she questions whether she’s truly in love with either twin or simply caught in a cycle of shared affection.