Sweethearts #83

When her best friend Anita marries Eric—the only man Sherry has ever loved—she's left devastated and spiraling through a dark night of despair. A chance encounter with a sympathetic young police officer on a bridge offers her an unexpected moment of human kindness that begins to shift something within her. As Sherry navigates the painful reality of watching the couple prepare for their honeymoon, she discovers whether a wounded heart can find its way toward healing.

Donna Janet arrives in a new town convinced that she carries a jinx that ruins the lives of everyone around her, but when she takes a job as secretary-companion to Mrs. Carter, she meets Frank—the kind, charming man who runs his mother's greeting card business. As Frank falls for Donna and declares his love, she struggles against her belief that her presence will only bring him misfortune, caught between the happiness she's found and the fear that loving him will cost him everything.

Bernice Lawson enters veterinary school determined to prove that women can compete equally with men, dismissing her own budding feelings for a classmate named Ray Hunt as a distraction from her mission. When Ray's kindness and genuine support begin to crack her defensive armor, a moment of vulnerability by a brook leads to an unexpected kiss that awakens something she'd been too guarded to admit—but accepting Ray's love means confronting whether she's been fighting the wrong battle all along.

Jean Miller's contempt for illness and weakness blinds her to the danger of her own prejudice—until Dan Kelly, a handsome foreign correspondent who's recently returned from the Orient, sweeps into her life and begins to challenge everything she believes about herself. As their romance deepens through stolen evenings and outdoor adventures, Jean's coldness toward anyone she deems infirm becomes harder to hide, and Dan's growing disappointment threatens to unravel the perfect match she thought they were.