Glamorous Romances #44

Joan's sister Sandra breaks into Peter Wright's apartment to retrieve a compromising photograph—one with a passionately written inscription that could ruin Joan's chances with the man she truly loves, Ricky Westover. When Peter unexpectedly returns and catches Sandra red-handed, she finds herself face-to-face with a charming rogue who's far more complicated than his reputation suggests, and the evening takes a turn neither sister anticipated.

After a painful rejection from Alex Dean, a young woman finds herself unexpectedly engaged to her boss, Mr. Ames—but then his nephew Britt arrives from California, and she's instantly drawn to him, setting off a collision between obligation and desire. Convinced she's a calculating gold digger chasing his uncle's money, Britt makes his contempt clear, even as she's forced to watch him assume she's exactly what he suspects. "Hate Kisses" charts the messy territory between what we owe and what we want when pride and misunderstanding stand in the way.

A headstrong nineteen-year-old flirt storms out of her father's house in a fit of jealousy and impulsively hires a charming drifter named Miguel to whisk her away in his trailer, only to find herself caught between Miguel's passionate devotion and the machinations of Joy, a calculating woman who seems determined to claim him for herself. As Fern discovers what Miguel and this stranger truly have in mind, she must reckon with whether running away was the answer—or whether some lessons can only be learned by going home.

Peg Chandler, a hostess on the fast streamliner between New Orleans and New York, is swept off her feet when a charming stranger named York Wood saves her from a taxi accident on Christmas Eve—just as she's about to meet her fiancé, Joe Barnes. As Peg finds herself caught between Joe's jealous suspicions and York's undeniable charm, a tangle of misunderstandings and competing affections threatens to derail everything she thought she wanted. This 1950 romance explores what happens when duty to an old love collides with the thrill of a new one.

Betsy's dream of marrying the charming bond salesman Dwight seems to come true when he proposes after just six months at the office—until his actual wife crashes the wedding ceremony, leaving Betsy humiliated and broke with only a ten-dollar bill to her name. Fleeing town to escape the scandal, Betsy takes a job in a small town and unexpectedly finds genuine love with a kind local man, only to have her past literally walk through the door when Dwight reappears seeking a fresh start of his own.