Romantic Adventures #44

Linda wakes up with no memory after a car crash, fleeing from someone she instinctively fears—only to discover from a photograph that she's been running from her own husband, Tom, and their daughter. Rebuilding her life in Los Angeles, she finds work and falls for Jim, a man who helps her heal, but as fragmented memories of her past resurface, Linda must confront the truth about why she fled and what it means for the feelings growing between her and Jim. A woman caught between a forgotten life and a new love faces an impossible choice in this bittersweet 1954 romance.

After her fiancé Ron jilts her, Arlene spirals into reckless dating to prove she doesn't care—only to find her reputation in tatters and herself isolated. When Bruce Gorham arrives from the central office, Arlene feels the first stirrings of genuine connection in months, but she's terrified to let herself trust in love again, convinced he'll reject her once he learns the truth about her wild behavior. As the truth begins to surface in the most humiliating way possible, Arlene must decide whether to keep running from herself or take a real chance on the one man who might actually see past her mistakes.

Dusty Carlson has spent her entire life on her father's sprawling tulip estate in Alaska, isolated from the world beyond—until a visiting American named Bill arrives and awakens feelings she never expected to experience. When their romance deepens despite her restlessness for a larger world, Dusty makes a choice that sends her to college in the States, where she meets the ambitious and worldly Alex Dunbarton and believes she's finally found where she belongs. As her feelings for Alex grow and he proposes, Dusty grapples with a troubling question: does he truly know who she is, and what will happen when she brings him back to the place—and the person—she fled?

Sue Courtney's a practiced flirt—she knows exactly how to catch a man's eye with a glance, a smile, the right perfume—and it's worked on every fellow she's met, until she crosses paths with John Ross. When her usual tactics land her in his arms, Sue discovers that playing games with romance feels dangerously different when real feelings are on the line, and she's forced to confront what she's been doing all along.

Carol McKenzie thinks she's found someone special in her new neighbor Gerry Cosgrove—a sweet but uncertain guy who seems to blossom under her affection. When his controlling mother enters the picture, Carol realizes the real battle ahead isn't winning Gerry's heart, but breaking the suffocating grip his mother has on his independence. She's determined to free him from her influence, no matter what it takes.