Love Secrets #45

Sue Garfield falls for Brad Ferguson during a shipboard romance, and when he reveals he's a widower, she embraces the chance to build a future together—until she arrives at his home and discovers that the memory of his late first wife, Dolores, haunts every room and every conversation. As Sue prepares to become his bride, she must grapple with whether she can ever truly step into the shadow of the woman Brad loved before, and whether his family and friends will ever see her as anything more than a replacement.

Louise has her heart set on the mysterious Jeff Baker, but when he finally asks her out, their romance takes an unexpected turn—his preference for quiet, private dates clashes with her love of social gatherings and group fun. As Louise begins to understand why Jeff keeps steering her away from parties and dances, she realizes there's far more to his behavior than simple shyness, forcing her to confront some hard truths about what their future together might look like.

Young artist Mimi Clark struggles with the tension between her passionate but impoverished bohemian dreams and the security offered by the older, wealthy art critic Phillip Devereaux, who takes a keen interest in her work after the art fair. As Mimi finds herself drawn into Devereaux's glamorous world of luxury and recognition—and away from her struggling friend Neil Brett—she faces an impossible choice between the life she once cherished and the comfortable future being dangled before her.

When Beth Halliday inherits her uncle's estate, she escapes her small-town life for the glittering casinos of Monte Carlo—only to fall hard for the charming Count Armando Conti, despite warnings from Pete Baker, the American innkeeper who sees right through the count's schemes. As Beth's infatuation deepens, she discovers too late what Pete tried to tell her, and must reckon with the consequences of her choices in the city of dreams.