Romantic Secrets #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains at least two distinct romantic stories. In the first story, a man named Andy meets Caroline Whitney at a house party and falls in love with her, but she rebuffs his advances, insisting she is not interested in him. Later, Andy encounters Caroline again and confesses his feelings, but learns she is already engaged to be married, forcing him to accept that his romantic hopes are futile. The second story features a woman who reveals she once had a romantic encounter with a man named Bill during a boat excursion; though she was attracted to him, she ultimately left him and went on to marry someone else, keeping this secret from her family and new husband.
In "My Other Love," a soldier named John Kennedy returns home from war, but a life-altering injury forces him to confront an impossible choice between the fiancée he left behind and the nurse who cared for him overseas. When John attempts to spare Rita the burden of marrying a wounded man, a selfless act by Marie—the very woman he believed he loved—reveals that his deepest loyalties were never truly divided. A story about sacrifice, honor, and discovering what love really means when tested by circumstance.
Identical twins Tom and Andy Allen have always swapped places without much trouble, but when both fall for the same girl, Caroline Whitney, their clever scheme becomes a tangled mess of mistaken identity and conflicting hearts. As Tom struggles with failing exams while Andy secretly dates Caroline in his place, the brothers find themselves caught between loyalty to each other and the woman they've both come to love. Can they untangle the deception before it destroys everything?
In "The Professor Had a Heart," Liz, a dedicated graduate student focused on her chemistry studies, finds her quiet routine disrupted when the very professor who’s pushed her to excel suddenly apologizes. Tired of being defined by her work, she decides to attend the campus dance—only to discover the professor’s relentless drive had a deeper, more personal reason.
A young woman schemes to push her innocent cousin toward Rich Bob Howard—the man she truly wants—expecting him to come running back to her. But when Bob falls for Paula instead, she's forced to confront an uncomfortable truth about herself and what real love actually requires.
Lisa is torn between her love for Lennie and her desperate yearning for the sophistication and glamour of city life that the visiting outsiders seem to possess so effortlessly. When a charming stranger named Dennis Ames offers her a chance to escape their small riverboat town and work as a model in his family's prestigious department store, she finds herself caught between the simple, genuine devotion Lennie offers and the allure of a world she's convinced holds all the answers. As Lisa grapples with this choice, she discovers that the price of chasing someone else's idea of success may be far steeper than she imagined.
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↩ Reprints Romantic Secrets #8 (1950)
Reprinted in Cupid Pictorial #146 (1961)
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