Wedding Bells #17

When a young woman's former fiancé returns from duty expecting marriage, an unexpected visitor arrives with a debt of gratitude that upends everything—a wounded soldier whose life was saved by her blood donation. As Alice finds herself drawn to the sergeant in ways that confuse and alarm her, she must confront what she thought she knew about love and loyalty in "Purple Heart Diary" from Wedding Bells #17.

Alice Terry's romance with Paul Shelby begins to crumble when she discovers through a newspaper gossip column that Paul's sudden declaration of love coincided suspiciously with his uncle's will—one that requires heirs to marry in order to inherit. Heartbroken and convinced she was merely a means to his fortune, Alice breaks off the engagement and tries to move on, but Paul pursues her with a shocking revelation that forces her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about his feelings. This 1956 romance from *Wedding Bells* explores whether true love can survive the sting of doubt and a trust betrayed.

A woman arrives in Anchorage hunting for a husband in a town where eligible men outnumber available women, and she meets Hugh Edwards, a charming airfield mechanic who sees right through her intentions. When Hugh falls for her but she hesitates, she pursues the wealthier and more successful Durham Trowbard instead—only to discover that chasing the wrong man means losing the right one. A chance to reconsider arrives when a mechanical failure forces her plane back to the airfield, where the truth about her heart becomes impossible to ignore.