True Life Secrets #16

A young woman working at a dude ranch carries the weight of a prison record, desperate to build a fresh start with Chris—until an unwelcome face from her past arrives with blackmail on his mind. When her former boyfriend Frank Toren threatens to expose her shame unless she helps him rob her employer, she faces an agonizing choice between protecting the kind man who gave her a second chance and preserving the future she's dared to hope for.

A young woman hired as secretary and companion to a wealthy couple finds herself drawn into a dangerous romance with the husband, who promises marriage after his divorce—only to discover, too late, that history has a cruel way of repeating itself. Art Cappello illustrates this cautionary tale of ambition and moral compromise, where what seems like a second chance becomes a bitter reckoning in "I Got What I Deserved."

A young wife watches her ambitious husband work himself to the brink of collapse, keeping a devastating secret about his health that forces her to make an impossible choice. When Jim demands a divorce to pursue success with another woman, Nora devises a desperate scheme to save his life—one that will test whether love can survive deception and whether four months away from the world might heal them both.