My Romantic Adventures #104

Lila Mott leaves her small-town drudgery behind to seek romance in the big city, and hits on an unconventional plan: become a taxi driver to meet wealthy men with nowhere to go but conversation. When a charming passenger named Will Peters takes notice and asks her out, Lila believes she's found her dream—until a harsh truth about class and expectations threatens everything she's built.

A college woman conducting a term paper survey on men's dating habits discovers her research subject—the smug and self-assured Ron Manning—is far more complicated than her initial conclusions about "operators." When she agrees to a date with him for the sake of her scientific investigation, she finds herself unexpectedly flustered, especially when Ron seems indifferent to her charms and dismissive of her academic work. As the evening unfolds, what began as detached observation threatens to become something altogether more personal—and neither of them sees it coming.

Iris has spent years searching for the perfect man, only to reject each suitor the moment he fails to match her exacting romantic ideals—but when charming Roy seems to be everything she's dreamed of, she finally believes she's found "the one." As their romance blossoms and Iris dares to hope this time will be different, a devastating revelation forces her to confront an uncomfortable truth about what real love actually demands.

Shy Janice Simmons thought she'd lost her chance with the handsome Mal Briggs when he left for Danton College, but fate reunites them there—and sparks fly between two lonely kids from the same hometown. When Mal becomes stagestruck by the dazzling actress Nita Balsam, Janice watches helplessly as her first love is drawn away, forcing her to consider a desperate gamble to win him back through the very stage that's come between them.