Love Secrets #46

Matty Comstock has spent her life fighting against the traditional expectations placed on women—rejecting romance, yearning instead for the freedom and authority she sees in men's lives. When her father passes away and leaves her the Comstock Shipping Lines, she finally sees her chance to command the ship she's always dreamed of captaining, the Flying Lady. But standing between her ambitions and her desires is Jim Conlon, a cocky sailor with an infuriating sense of superiority—and a kiss that threatens to unravel everything she's fought to become.

A young woman's heart belongs to Fred Price, a quiet bookish man she's fallen for completely—but her father, a former boxer who dreams of a son-in-law as tough and athletic as he once was, has other plans. When he introduces her to the strapping Burt Gordon, Irene finds herself torn between honoring her father's deepest wishes and following her own deepest feelings. Can she stand up for love, or will duty to the man who raised her win out?

Joan Hayes thought she had her future figured out—engaged to Bill Whitmore, a steady garage mechanic—until his drifter brother Greg roared back into town and turned her world upside down. When Greg's reckless charm and wild promises sweep her off her feet, Joan finds herself torn between the safe love she promised and the thrilling, impulsive man who makes her feel alive. As Joan's heart pulls her in two directions, she'll discover that some attractions come with a dangerous price.

Lisa has been swept up in a romantic fantasy about Gordon Chambers, a man she briefly knew years ago whose weekly letters have captivated her heart—so much so that she's been secretly receiving them while going steady with the devoted Chad Forester. When Chad discovers one of Gordon's letters and, remarkably, offers to drive her to a class reunion in Bay City where she might reunite with her dream, Lisa finally gets her chance to see if reality matches the man she's spent five years imagining. What she finds at that reunion tests everything she thought she knew about love and the people we build up in our minds.