Youthful Romances #12

Colleen Kinney's heart belongs to her manager Ray Masters, but his icy demeanor—born from past heartbreak—keeps him locked in a purely professional distance despite her growing feelings. When a song lands on Ray's desk, it becomes the unexpected key to thawing the cold wall between them. This 1952 romance charts the push and pull between a determined young singer and the guarded man who refuses to let himself feel anything but business.

A young woman from Evansville leaves home for a secretarial job in Washington, D.C., drawn to the promise of the big city and a chance to be somebody. When her boss, Mr. Larkin, takes her under his wing and a charming businessman named Jim Southworth pursues her relentlessly, she finds herself caught between two men—until suspicious dealings at work force her to question everything she thought she knew.

A young woman falls hard for George, but their budding romance hits a snag when his father—a mayoral candidate—publicly accuses her father of being the crime boss running the waterfront rackets. Desperate to know the truth about the man she loves and the father she trusts, she races to the docks to settle the matter once and for all, only to discover the real culprit isn't who either of them believed. "Racketeer's Daughter" is a sharp little romance that proves sometimes the people we doubt are exactly who we should believe in.

When a foul baseball at spring practice brings Debra Dearing and Lefty James together, the two fall hard—but their worlds couldn't be further apart. Debra, a woman of wealth and social standing, hides her true identity from the rough-around-the-edges ballplayer, and when the truth comes out after their secret elopement, the couple must navigate the clash between his plain honesty and her high-society obligations.