Sweethearts #117

When Annette returns home after years away at an exclusive boarding school, she finds herself at odds with her humble life running her parents' small inn—until the charming Murray Durran arrives for his annual vacation, bringing adventure and romance into her confined world. As the two grow close, Annette must navigate her conflicting feelings about her past and her future, torn between the life she's come to resent and the connection blooming before her. The question is whether love can bridge the distance between who she's become and where she comes from.

Lieutenant Edna Marrow finds herself torn between two very different soldiers in post-war Europe: the polished, aristocratic Colonel Carl Tucker, who represents security and a glamorous future as lady of his ancestral manor, and Hank Mitchell, a reckless foreign correspondent whose magnetic charm and spontaneous passion set her heart racing. As Edna juggles dates and stolen moments with both men, she discovers that the heart's true choice may not be the one that looks best on paper.

Nina's suffocating devotion to her fiancé David—following him everywhere and questioning his every move—pushes him away rather than binding him closer, and when a job opportunity takes him out of town, her jealousy and lack of trust spiral into desperate surveillance. What begins as a cautionary tale about possessive love becomes a story of painful reckoning when Nina discovers that her need to control David has driven him to seek the very freedom—and companionship—she feared he'd find.