Love Secrets #36

Grace Curtis thought she'd left heartbreak behind when she fled her small hometown for New York, but repeating the same painful pattern—losing Johnny Blake to her family's poverty, then Bill Summers to her old-fashioned ways—she decides that if she can't be herself and keep a man, she'll become whoever they want her to be. When auditor Greg White asks her to dinner, Grace is determined that this time she won't lose another romance to her own nature.

Jane Foster has been haunted since adolescence by the face of her dream man—a phantom lover she sculpted from pure imagination—and when a stranger rescues her from traffic, his face matches her idealized vision perfectly. But when Neil returns from war with a surgically reconstructed face, Jane discovers that her obsession with his appearance has blinded her to what truly matters, forcing her to confront whether she ever loved the man beneath the mask at all. "The Face of My Dreams" is a poignant meditation on the difference between loving an image and loving a person.

Lee Winters thought she'd lost everything when her boyfriend Royce Johnson died in a plane crash—but when she encounters a stranger named Frank Brent who bears an uncanny resemblance to him, she becomes determined to reshape Frank into the man she's mourning. As Lee pushes Frank to adopt Royce's mannerisms and habits, her desperate need to recapture the past threatens to destroy what might actually be real between them.