First Kiss #5

Anne has harbored feelings for her coworker Mr. Taggert for two years, but a sympathetic coworker named Mae suggests a bold solution: a bottle of perfume to catch his attention. When the scent works and Bert finally notices her, Anne accepts his invitation to a dance—but what she discovers over the following weeks challenges everything she believed about why he fell for her. A charming 1958 tale about confidence, attraction, and the real magic behind a seemingly ordinary gesture.

In "Infatuation," Jan's romantic daydreams about teen heartthrob Dean Maxwell take a surprising turn when she finally meets him in person—only to discover that the larger-than-life figure she imagined is, in reality, just a kind-hearted teenager, not the glamorous star she'd imagined.

Rita, a sharp-eyed accountant with a knack for spotting fraud, is tasked with guarding her wealthy uncle’s fortune—so when Richard Burris enters the picture, she’s determined to keep him at arm’s length. But as she digs into his past, she starts to wonder if her instincts are as reliable as her ledgers.

Helen believes her fiancé Danny Blake isn't good enough for her—at least, that's what her mother has decided—but Danny has a plan to prove otherwise. When he arrives at the house with two women from his past, their innocent explanations reveal that the gossip her mother believed was nothing but misunderstanding, and Danny's thoughtfulness wins over even the harshest critic. Sometimes the right person just needs the chance to show who they really are.

Lydia Soames, an assistant editor, falls head over heels for a poet named Ralph Vaughan after reading his stunning manuscript "Ways of Love," only to have her feelings intensely returned when they finally meet in person. When Ralph's poetry career takes off and his newfound fame begins pulling him away from her, Lydia must watch helplessly as the man she loves drifts into a destructive life of glamorous distractions and society events. In this 1958 tale, she faces the painful reality that literary genius and romantic devotion don't always travel together.