Romantic Hearts #4

When Martha Wright ditches her glittering heiress life to find genuine love in the small town of Roxville Crossing, she trades her diamonds for blue jeans and reinvents herself as an ordinary girl—only to fall hard for Art, a charming airplane mechanic who has no idea who she really is. As their connection deepens, a dangerous secret threatens to unravel her masquerade and put Art in terrible danger, forcing Martha to risk everything to save him.

When a college junior named Alice gains a reputation for being too easy to kiss, she falls hard for the charming Tom Grey—only to discover he's been using her all along. After fleeing school in shame, she finds steady work and genuine companionship with Terry Lockwood, a kind man at her engineering firm, but her trust in love has been shattered. As Alice learns to see the difference between reckless passion and true devotion, she discovers that sometimes losing yourself is the only way to find what really matters.

A young woman suffocated by her father's possessive love escapes to a new life as a waitress, where she meets Dick Clayton and discovers genuine happiness for the first time. As their romance deepens and they plan a future together, fate intervenes in a tragic and devastating way that will test everything she's fought for. Written with pencils by Bill Molno, "I Ran Away to Love" explores how the bonds we flee can pale against the bonds we choose—and what happens when destiny decides otherwise.