Sweethearts #88

Madge, a weary young woman from a small town who's struggled through countless jobs, collapses on a country road and is rescued by Doug Evans and brought to the home of the kind Mrs. Nevin. As Doug visits each evening and Madge recovers, a tender romance blooms between them—but when Doug asks her to stay close and find work nearby, Madge's desperation for financial security begins to cloud her feelings. A chance overheard remark about Mrs. Nevin's money sets Madge on a dangerous path that will test whether love or survival instinct wins out.

Kathie has carried a secret love for Martin Burgess through the years, watching helplessly as he prepares to marry her own sister Evelyn—until a tragic accident on the night before the wedding changes everything. Now, with Evelyn's fate uncertain and Martin withdrawn and broken at a remote cabin, Kathie must confront both her guilty conscience and the unexpected opportunity that grief and circumstance have placed before her. In this 1950 romance, a young woman struggles between the weight of her unspoken longing and what her heart knows to be right.

Janet, a telephone operator who feels invisible among sixty identical coworkers, overhears a sinister plot to murder a man at the Adlon Hotel—but instead of reporting it through proper channels, her hunger to finally be somebody drives her to investigate alone. As she pursues headlines and heroism, her obsession with standing out begins to unravel everything that actually matters to her, including her engagement to Bob.