Teen-Age Love #8

A young woman reunites with Jon Bridger, a charming architect, after four years away at school—but her friend Marie warns her he's not to be trusted. When Jon needs capital to secure a major commission, she offers him her inheritance, only to witness what seems like a devastating betrayal that shakes her faith in him completely. As the truth unfolds, Teresa must decide whether to believe the man she's fallen for or the friend who claimed to protect her all along.

Gloria tries desperate measures to stand out from the pack and keep her boyfriend Ted's attention—donning borrowed riding clothes, taking up smoking, and reinventing herself as someone worldly and sophisticated. But when her charades literally fall apart, she discovers that the person Ted actually cares about might be the real her all along.

A shy farmboy finds himself drawn to a beautiful classmate at a college get-acquainted dance, but assumes his modest means put her out of reach—until a well-meaning roommate arranges a double date that reveals she's been hoping to see him again. What unfolds is a discovery that two quiet souls, each convinced they didn't stand a chance, were actually meant to find each other all along.

When her elderly employer passes away, Anne Blanding is tasked with delivering a mysterious letter to Todd Hunter, a talented painter living at Lost Lake—and discovers that the late Mrs. Danforth had something far more meaningful in mind than a simple errand. As Anne stays on at Todd's cabin, she finds herself drawn to him, even as she struggles to understand what the old woman's cryptic final wishes might mean. Todd holds the key to Mrs. Danforth's real legacy, and it will take patience and trust to uncover it.