Real Love #38

While the Bride Waited... Jeanie clings to hope that Randy, her former high school sweetheart now a rising movie star, will return to marry her, despite Fred’s growing doubts and his quiet affection. As weeks pass with no word, Jeanie begins to accept Fred’s advances—until a sudden letter from Randy arrives, reigniting her dreams and forcing her to face the choice between the past and the present.

Loris Gilmer, raised in a remote West Virginia mountain community where tradition still binds families, flees an arranged marriage to Armin Colton after her father trades her for land and mules. Determined to forge her own life, she leaves the mountains, finds work in a diner, and begins rebuilding her identity—only to face heartbreak when a promising romance with a city man collapses over her past. Months later, as she rises in a new city, a deeper connection with Judge Edwards’s son, Wylie, forces her to confront whether she can finally embrace love without hiding who she truly is.

Garvin Hayes, newly promoted to office manager, promises to marry Evee Byron, but his ambitions soon shift when he reconnects with Helen Montague, the boss’s daughter. As Garvin distances himself from Evee to pursue a more advantageous future, she finds unexpected comfort and a surprising offer of love from Mark Trent, the new executive assistant.