Glamorous Romances #52

Midge has spent years helping her late brother's racing partner "Speed" Tracy maintain his midget cars, nursing an unrequited love while he's engaged to the shallow and calculating Vidette Edwards. When Midge realizes how publicly foolish her devotion has become, she decides to move on—transforming her appearance and accepting a date with the charming Chris Addison, which quickly leads to an engagement ring. But when Midge attends Speed's big race at Yellow Jacket Stadium, the two reconnect, forcing her to confront what her heart actually wants.

A movie star returns to her hometown under an assumed identity for a charity appearance, only to have her past catch up with her when an old acquaintance recognizes who she really is—and uses that knowledge to his advantage. As Joyce navigates between the publicity man who loves her and the man from her past who's determined to control her future, she must decide whether to reveal the truth or let blackmail dictate her choices. Her performance tonight could launch her career to new heights, but not before she settles the secrets threatening to destroy everything she's built.

In small-town California, a young woman working in her father's restaurant dreams of escaping to a better life, dismissing her devoted boyfriend Kelvin Garrick as too ordinary—until she learns he's a baseball prodigy about to be signed by the major leagues. When Kelvin's newfound fame and fortune sweep them into marriage and a glamorous life in Florida, she eagerly pursues the high society she'd always craved, but her growing fascination with wealthy admirers and nightclub society begins to pull her away from the man whose success made it all possible.

Patricia Sanborn is a shy, quiet coed whose dignified New England upbringing keeps her invisible on campus—so much so that no one suspects her secret work as the exotic fortune-teller "Gypsy Valda" at a bohemian tea room, a gig she uses to pay her college bills. When Merrill Lyndon, the campus heartthrob, comes seeking another reading, he becomes fascinated by the mysterious seer, and despite her protests and her existing engagement back home, he pursues her with unexpected persistence. As Patricia juggles her double life, keeps her fiancé in the dark, and tries to fend off Merrill's growing feelings, the walls between her two worlds begin to crumble.