Heart Throbs #32

Pat Morrow is a willful, hot-tempered heiress who's used to getting her way—until she meets Kent Barnes, an art dealer with a refreshingly blunt manner and a gallery of paintings that captivate her far less than he does. When sparks fly between them, Pat discovers that her famous "wildcat" nature meets its match in someone who refuses to be intimidated by her tantrums and demands.

When Patty Streeter's family moves to a new town, she clings bitterly to her old life and the boy she left behind, rejecting the friendly overtures of a classmate named Clark Linton. As she reluctantly agrees to attend the annual prom with him, Patty must confront whether holding on to the past will cost her the chance to build something real in her new home. A touching 1955 romance about learning where your heart truly belongs.

Donna invites her lonely coworker Betty Richards to be her roommate out of kindness, but when her fiancé Roy Bennett suggests including Betty on their dates, what starts as generosity threatens to unravel everything—forcing Donna to grapple with the gap between compassion and her own happiness. As tension mounts between Roy's frustration and Betty's desperate gratitude, Donna discovers that doing the right thing isn't always simple, and that good intentions can have consequences no one anticipated.

In "My Magic Moment," Taffy, the devoted assistant to TV puppeteer Ted, finds her romance tested when torch singer Margo sets her sights on Ted and frames Taffy for a jewel theft. With clever misdirection and the help of Ted’s puppets, Taffy turns the tables on Margo in a twist of theatrical deception.