Exciting Romances #5

Bess Melaney graduates as the top of her police class and takes her first assignment patrolling the troubled Ladimore Avenue district, where she meets Rick, a charming youth worker who quickly sweeps her off her feet. When teenage gang violence erupts and reveals a narcotics ring at a local dance hall, Bess finds herself torn between her duty as an officer and her deepening feelings for Rick as the department plans a raid. With her world about to collide in ways she can't foresee, Bess must navigate the intersection of love and the law in this 1951 romance.

A drifter named Joey Irish meets Eileen Richards on a train headed to Palmaine, and their instant attraction sparks a brief, tender connection—until Joey's ambitions pull him away. Weeks later, working at a resort and dreaming of wealth, Joey seeks out Eileen with a scheme to use her connections with wealthy customers to climb into the money and status he craves. Now he must convince her to help him, even as his own heart wars with the callousness he's built around it.

A young woman volunteers to entertain servicemen at Camp Arbor, reveling in the attention and adulation—until she enters the contest for Miss Camp Arbor pin-up girl and meets Derek, a soldier who treats her differently than all the others. As Rita pursues the title through a string of casual dates, she finds herself drawn to Derek in unexpected ways, struggling between her hunger for popularity and something deeper he seems to be offering.