Romantic Adventures #46

Madge, a wedding photographer who spends her days documenting other people's happy endings, finds herself caught between her cynical partner Jim—who's convinced marriage is a sucker's game—and her own longing for love. When a scheme to make Jim jealous backfires spectacularly, Madge must confront what real devotion looks like when she and Jim witness an act of selfless courage at an unexpected wedding. Their partnership hangs by a thread, and Madge's faith in love itself is tested in ways she never anticipated.

Dora Conway has had plenty of suitors and marriage proposals, but something always stops her from saying yes—so she turns to psychiatrist Doctor Kent for help understanding why. As Dora shares her romantic history from college through a recent engagement, she and the doctor discover an unexpected connection that might finally be the real answer she's been searching for.

Link Shepard returns home from a North Korean prison camp haunted by memories of Rusty, a nurse he met aboard the transport plane—a woman who seemed like his dream come true until circumstances tore them apart. When his parents whisk him away for a hero's homecoming, Link is left with only a cryptic note and mounting heartbreak as weeks turn to months with no word from her. Desperate for answers, he launches a search that leads him back across the country, determined to discover what really happened to the girl he couldn't forget.

A man trapped by the expectations of Chapel Grove—his mother's fragile heart, his girlfriend Beth's certainty, the small-town life closing in—seizes a terrible chance when a car accident leaves him presumed dead. Starting over in New York as a new person, he pursues his forgotten dream of becoming an artist and finds unexpected love with a fellow student, only to discover that the secret of his past may be the one thing that could destroy their future. In this 1954 tale, a second chance proves far more complicated than simply running away.