Heart Throbs #7 (1950)

Franklin Pierce, heir to a vast fortune, feels trapped by his wealth and emptiness, confiding in his secretary Hughes about his despair. After a tense conversation with his cold, ambitious fiancée Donna, he disappears into the fog along a lonely beach, leaving her to inherit his empire—though his intentions remain unclear.

Terry Lawrence, a dedicated social secretary, is swept into a daring social experiment by her eccentric employer, Mrs. Barkley, who bets she can transform an ordinary woman into the season’s most sought-after debutante. As Terry embraces the role of a wealthy socialite, she finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Lee Dodson, the very man whose father is unknowingly part of the deception. Their growing connection threatens to unravel the carefully constructed illusion—especially when Lee asks her to marry him, forcing Terry to confront the painful truth of her fabricated identity.

In the Palm of His Hand follows Adele, a shy admirer of Jim Hendry, as she takes on the role of a fortune teller at her club’s charity carnival—using the guise to secretly test Jim’s feelings, only to find her carefully constructed deception unraveling when he returns, drawn by a mysterious attraction she can no longer hide. As their paths cross again and again, Adele must confront the growing tension between her secret identity and her true emotions, all while wrestling with the belief that Jim’s heart belongs to someone else.

Belinda Sue Culpepper, sheltered and stifled by her sister Agatha’s rigid pride in their Confederate-era lineage, finds her world upended when Brock Hadley, a Northern man with a surprising connection to the plantation’s history, arrives seeking information. As their secret meetings grow more frequent, Belinda begins to question the hatreds she’s been taught, and a dangerous, forbidden affection starts to bloom.

In the shadow of a river tunnel, Sandy Hackett grapples with the fear that her father’s dangerous work as a sandhog will claim her twin brother Bob, just as it took her mother’s life. When Bob fails to return home after a shift, the tension mounts—especially when his friend Mack Turner arrives, only to be met with Sandy’s quiet despair and a painful choice between love and duty.