Real Love #57

Peggy's budding romance with Carlton Lynch seems perfect—until she's forced to introduce him to her family, including her sister Lora, who's confined to a wheelchair and has spent years sabotaging Peggy's happiness out of jealousy. When Lora meets Carlton and discovers his genuine kindness, she hatches a calculated scheme to win him over by playing the role of a charming, neglected invalid, using her disability as a weapon to steal him away. Trapped between her love for Carlton and her inability to expose her sister's manipulation without seeming cruel, Peggy watches helplessly as Lora's scheme begins to work.

A young photographer returns to her hometown of Ferndale on assignment—only to discover her ex-husband Greg Merrick is getting married that very afternoon. When Jill's past collides with Greg's present, long-buried feelings resurface, but a shocking legal discovery threatens to upend everyone's plans. As misunderstandings and accusations fly, Jill must navigate the wreckage of their brief marriage and decide what she's truly willing to fight for.

A young woman ashamed of her humble origins pursues engagement to a wealthy socialite, but her fabricated past—and the people she's left behind—threaten to unravel everything. As Jack's family questions her background and her former life intrudes, Maris must confront whether she can build a marriage on a lie, or if the truth will cost her everything she's tried to become.

Young Avis leaves the orphanage to work as a maid for Mrs. Michelson, only to find herself trapped in a household of exploitation and false accusations—until a chance encounter with Phillip Abbott offers her an escape into a new life. When Avis accepts Phil's proposal of marriage, she buries her painful past, hoping to move forward as his wife, but a dark secret from her time with the Michelsons threatens to surface and shatter her newfound happiness.