Love Confessions #26

Jill Cameron, a police reporter for the Times-Herald, has built a promising life with Detective-Sergeant Tom Lambert—until she crosses paths with Frankie Orchid, the city's charismatic gang lord, and finds herself dangerously drawn to him. As Tom pursues a major rackets investigation that could make his career, Jill becomes entangled in Frankie's world, caught between her old love and a new passion that promises everything but threatens to destroy them both. Her loyalty—to Tom, to her job, to the truth—will be tested in ways she never imagined.

Beth Halliday's inheritance seems like a dream come true—until she arrives in Monte Carlo and falls under the spell of the charming Count Armando Conti, who systematically convinces her to gamble away her fortune and even her younger sister's college fund. As Beth desperately searches the casinos to recover what she's lost, she must confront the painful truth about the man she trusted and decide what matters most.

When Sandy's father, Captain Fred McCay, warns her to steer clear of the "trailer trash" moving into Hampton, she falls hard for Pete Wallace anyway—a decent kid from the trailer park with big dreams of college. Their secret romance becomes torture when a police raid on the Blue Moon nightclub lands Pete in hot water, and Sandy must decide whether to let him take the fall alone or risk her father's fury by telling the truth.