Romantic Story #62

Paula has built walls against love, haunted by her parents' constant bickering and her sister's failed marriage—but when Gary insists he won't accept her rejection, she's forced to reckon with whether the unhappiness she's witnessed is really love's fault or something more complicated. As she watches the people around her more closely, Paula begins to question everything she thought she knew about commitment and her own heart.

A painfully shy office worker arrives at her company dance feeling like the odd one out, until her thoughtful coworker Dennis Reefe asks her to dance and sees past her self-doubt. As the evening unfolds, she finds the courage to take a chance on herself—and on him—discovering that sometimes happiness begins when you stop waiting for permission to reach for it.

Angela Willoughby wants to marry John Marconi, but her mother insists he lacks the proper family pedigree—until John reveals he's the heir to his Uncle Prince Humberto Marconi of Italy, who controls villas and vast lands. What Mrs. Willoughby doesn't know is that the Prince himself has just learned of a stunning reversal of fortune that could reshape the wedding into something far grander than she imagined.

A young woman wakes from a train station accident with no memory of who she is—only a nagging sense that she's supposed to be somewhere important. Taking refuge under an assumed name, she builds a new life as a waitress and finds genuine connection with a kind coworker, until a stranger arrives claiming to be her fiancé and telling her the truth about her real identity. Now caught between two versions of herself and two different futures, she must navigate the dangerous gap between the life she's forgotten and the life she's come to love.

Erica, a model reluctant to wear glasses despite her worsening vision, mistakes Jim Brandt for someone else—and he charms her into both getting her prescription filled and accepting his company while she adjusts to seeing clearly. As Jim becomes her "seeing-eye escort," a genuine connection forms, but when Erica finally has her glasses, she may be seeing their budding romance through a rosier lens than reality warrants.

Theodore Roosevelt rose from a sickly boyhood to become a writer-statesman who would lead the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War of 1898, proving himself a formidable fighting man and hero. This biographical account traces how a frail young boy transformed into one of America's most dynamic figures.