Glamorous Romances #74

Deb Moore, a struggling movie extra in Hollywood, accepts a wild dare from her roommate Margot to climb the wall around director Kerry Scott's Beverly Hills home—a publicity stunt dreamed up by reporter Jimmy Blake. When she faints from hunger upon meeting Kerry, the mysterious director makes her an astonishing offer: marry him in a fake ceremony to secure a film role, and he'll keep up appearances to protect his privacy. What Deb hides from both men is that she's fallen for Kerry at first sight, unaware he's marrying her only to guard his heart against his ex-fiancée, the glamorous Linnet.

When Colleen meets Ronald Bradley at college, she falls hard for the returned serviceman—so hard that she accepts his proposal before graduation. But when she finally encounters Ron's widowed mother at the commencement ceremony, Colleen discovers a formidable obstacle: Mrs. Bradley has a history of systematically driving away every girl who gets close to her son, and she's determined Ron shouldn't marry until he's established his career in the family law firm. Determined not to let Ron's controlling mother derail their future, Colleen moves to the city to find work and fight for her engagement—but Mrs. Bradley's interference may prove more cunning than she bargained for.

Leila Shannon has been secretly dating Perry Stevens, a man her parents would never approve of—until her mother spots them together and she's forced to recruit Johnny Beaumont as her cover story. Johnny agrees to pose as her steady date, but when he discovers Perry is also two-timing her with another girl, the tangled arrangement spirals into genuine feelings that Leila never expected. As deception piles on deception, she'll have to choose between the exciting wrong choice and the dependable man who's been by her side all along.