Real Love #47

Ambitious model Glorya is riding high with magazine spreads and exclusive assignments, but her fiancé Duff grows restless watching her prioritize her career over their relationship—starving herself thin, skipping dates, and always pushing the wedding further away. When her roommate Janis questions whether Glorya's success is worth the cost to her personal life, Glorya must confront what she's willing to sacrifice and what she might already be losing.

Ann Orrison arrives in New Orleans for what should be a quiet visit before her Easter wedding to the wealthy Seymour Barnes—but instead, she surrenders to the intoxicating magic of Mardi Gras, renting a costume and losing herself in the carnival crowds. When a mysterious stranger dressed as the Devil rescues her from the throng, the two spend an enchanted day together, unmasking at sunset to reveal themselves as Ryan Weaver and Ann, their connection deepening through the evening's parades and balls. As midnight approaches and the revelry ends, Ann must confront what her heart has discovered about love, duty, and who she's truly meant to be.

Lisa Anthony, a young woman from a wealthy California ranch family, finds herself torn between her fiancé Nelson Bonnell—a man everyone expects her to marry—and Reynolds Jackson, a migrant worker whose unexpected intervention during a troubling evening with Nelson awakens feelings she never knew existed. As days pass and Reynolds lingers on her father's property despite her warnings, Lisa discovers that passion and certainty about love are far more complicated than the secure, respectable future Nelson offers. What begins as a collision between two worlds becomes a question Lisa can no longer ignore about what her heart truly wants.

Ann Emory, a nineteen-year-old waitress tired of fending off unwanted advances from men already attached to other girls, makes up a fiancé named Bryan Hamill and buys herself an engagement ring to discourage suitors. But when Paul Weaver, a wealthy and charming regular at the coffee shop, begins showing genuine interest in her, Ann finds herself caught between the lie that's meant to protect her and the chance at real romance she's been dreaming about.