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True Life Secrets #17

Jan 1954 · Charlton · 0.10 USD
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This anthology issue contains multiple stories, including one about a woman named June who was kidnapped as a baby and raised by a man named Fred, who keeps her isolated and dependent on him through emotional manipulation and control. When June discovers the truth about her identity through a found newspaper and realizes she was abducted years ago, she attempts to escape, leading to a confrontation where Fred is fatally struck and she reconciles with her biological father. Another story features a woman involved in a robbery scheme with a man named Duncan; when police arrive during the crime, she agrees to a plan to betray Duncan and rob him of the stolen money to save herself, ultimately leading to her arrest and the promise of a lighter sentence for her cooperation.

Contains 5 stories
Doubt in My Heart
7 pp · Romance

A young woman staying with her sister meets Rex Marlowe, a charming man with a flashy blue car and seemingly plenty of money—and he quickly proposes. But when her brother-in-law, a police sergeant, mentions a stolen vehicle matching Rex's description, she's forced to confront a troubling suspicion about the man she's fallen for. As doubt gnaws at her heart, Kitty must decide what loyalty really means when the person you love may not be who you thought they were.

My Stolen Love
6 pp · Romance

A drifter running from a hard life witnesses a tragedy and seizes a dangerous chance—assuming the identity of a missing heiress to finally escape her past. As she brings warmth and healing to a fractured family, she finds herself drawn to her "brother" Jim, even as his scheming fiancée Sherry North threatens to expose everything she's built on lies in "My Stolen Love."

Only Way Out
4 pp · Romance

A young woman named June faces an impossible choice when the man she loves, Fred, finds himself in mortal danger—and a mysterious stranger demands she do something terrible to save him. Trapped between her heart and her conscience, June must decide whether she can live with a secret that could destroy everything, and whether Fred's love will survive the truth if he ever discovers what she's done to keep him alive.

Gang Girl
8 pp · Romance

A young woman desperate to fit into her new neighborhood falls under the spell of Steve Duncan, a charismatic gang leader whose passionate intensity blinds her to the crimes she's drawn into committing. As she spirals deeper into a life of robbery and violence, she meets Cory Williams, a kind man who genuinely cares for her—but Steve has other plans, forcing her into an impossible situation where her loyalty to him threatens everything she's come to value. "Gang Girl" captures the tragedy of a girl caught between two worlds, where love becomes a weapon and choices made in a moment of weakness threaten to destroy her.

Life or Death
4 pp · Romance

Ray faces an impossible choice when a hurricane strikes the cabin cruiser he and his wife Susan are aboard. With only one life preserver and Susan unconscious, Ray must decide what to do—knowing that a doctor had recently told him Susan was incurably ill with perhaps a year to live. A gut-wrenching moral dilemma plays out on the storm-tossed Gulf, forcing a husband to confront the darkest question: what's the right thing to do when fate and circumstance collide?

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artist, inker Artie Cappello
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