Sweethearts #25

Gina's life takes an unexpected turn when a coworker named Charley attempts to involve her in a bank robbery and flee to South America—a temptation she refuses, until he sends her money from abroad that she accepts and uses to transform her wardrobe. When she meets George, a charming newcomer who opens a hardware store in town, Gina finds herself drawn to him, but her secret guilt over keeping Charley's stolen money threatens to undermine everything she's beginning to feel.

A young woman wrestles with a forbidden attraction to her brother Kim, determined to suppress the feeling by throwing herself into a romance with Jim Tipone—until a shocking discovery in the attic changes everything. Desperate to claim Kim's affection, she sets a dangerous trap that backfires spectacularly. "My Terrible Sin!" explores how far someone will go when desperation overrides conscience, and what price they pay for it.

A young woman believes she's devoted to Bill Watson, a detective she adores, until she meets the mysterious and charming Rocky and falls hard for him instead. But when Rocky's true nature and a shocking family secret come to light, she's forced to confront what love really means when it demands an impossible choice.

Chris has everything mapped out: a humble life at Mother Sill's boardinghouse with Chip, the man she loves, and plans for marriage come fall. But when an unexpected inheritance gives her the means to attend the prestigious Laura Hodkin's School of Design—a secret dream she'd nearly abandoned—she trades in her old wardrobe and her old life for acceptance into a glamorous new crowd. As Chris discovers the intoxicating appeal of wealth and sophistication, the people who once meant everything to her begin to feel like obstacles to the person she's becoming.

A young wife clings to her marriage while her husband serves overseas, but when he returns home unemployed and struggling to adjust to civilian life, her overbearing mother seizes the opportunity to push a successful family friend into her life—and one fateful afternoon of shopping shatters everything she thought she knew. Viv must confront the painful gap between the man she married and the man who came back, as jealousy and resentment threaten to tear apart what little remains of their bond.