Thrilling Romances #16
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe issue contains at least two romantic stories. "My Heart Was True" follows a woman named Laurie who struggles with her feelings for two men—her first love Steve and Bob, to whom she was faithful. After Steve departs and Bob leaves her, Laurie realizes she threw away her second chance with her own hands, leaving her to face the future alone. A second story involves a woman named Nora caught in a love triangle between Jack, who wants to marry her, and Matt, a man she encounters at a town house. When Matt rejects her advances, Nora attempts to prove her love is worth his devotion, but Matt remains unmoved by her persistence.
When Laurie's fiancé Bob dies in a sudden accident, she becomes trapped in grief, convinced no one else could ever fill the void he left behind. Steve, a persistent admirer, refuses to let her waste away in memories—pursuing her relentlessly until a night at the Stardust Room, the place she and Bob had called their own, forces her to confront whether clinging to the past means abandoning any future at all. "My Heart Was True" explores whether loyalty to a lost love means betraying the living one who stands before you.
Jack Landis wants nothing more than to marry Nora, but his fiancée is too caught up in the thrill of engagement itself—the parties, the trousseau, the attention—to set a wedding date. As his frustration mounts, Nora insists on savoring this special time, unaware that her endless delays are testing the very love she claims to cherish.
Nora's been basking in the glow of her engagement—the gifts, the envy of her friends, the promise of becoming "Mrs."—but when Jack cancels their dinner plans and she spots him at a restaurant with the seemingly plain Jane, her perfect picture starts to crack. As Nora confronts Jack about his newfound interest, she's forced to hear a hard truth: she's been so caught up in the trappings of engagement that she's forgotten what love actually means. Now Nora must reckon with what she's lost and what it might take to become the kind of person worthy of real love.
Irene's heart belongs to Matt Shelby, a coal miner whose humble station puts him at odds with her wealthy family—but when her parents' promising new dinner guest, safety engineer Larry Emmet, begins courting her with their full approval, Irene finds herself caught between the life she loves and the life expected of her. As her birthday approaches and she plans to finally confess her true feelings, circumstances conspire to test whether love alone can bridge the gulf between two worlds.
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