Sweethearts #110

Ellen, Steve's fiancée and bookkeeper, takes over his pharmaceutical business while he's called to military service—but when wartime drug shortages create a lucrative black market, she's tempted into illegal dealing that transforms her from modest businesswoman into a glamorous operator of a thriving underworld operation. As her world of easy money and questionable associates grows, Ellen faces an uncertain future when Steve is set to return home from the service.

When a young woman at an exclusive resort overhears talk of a modeling agency seeking a beautiful English Channel swimmer, she hatches an audacious scheme—faking an eight-mile lake swim to catch their attention. Her gambit works, landing her the contract and thrust into the spotlight, but as she grows close to Mike, the agent who discovered her, the weight of her deception and the looming Channel swim begin to crack her carefully constructed facade.

Ann wins a prestigious scholarship to study at a French academy in Paris, leaving behind her boyfriend Harry—but the City of Light proves far more distracting than she expected. As she trades her textbooks for romantic adventures with a string of Parisian suitors, Ann must eventually reckon with what she's forgotten and what she truly values.