Teen-Age Romances #13

A girl who's earned a wild reputation by dating freely discovers genuine love when Art asks her out—but he's started running with a reckless crowd himself, and she's determined to reform him before it's too late. When Art refuses to listen to her warnings and dismisses her concern as controlling, she'll have to decide whether love means changing someone, or changing herself. Written with all the heart-on-sleeve intensity of early '50s romance, "I Was Too 'Fast' For Love" asks whether two people can save each other—or if trying will only drag them both down.

A young woman's possessive demands nearly derail her high school sweetheart's future, and years later she must finally confront the selfish choices that almost cost him everything. When her college roommate Neila finds herself in a similar romantic bind with George, the narrator shares the painful truth about what her relentless need for attention did to Roy—and what it took to salvage their relationship. "I Wanted Too Much Love" is a cautionary tale about the price of putting yourself before someone you claim to care for.

A college freshman with a taste for attention sets her sights on her handsome professor, Professor Wentworth, convinced she's sophisticated enough to play a dangerous romantic game—but when a fellow student, Dick Harley, also pursues her, Mona finds herself caught between two very different kinds of affection and forced to reckon with what infatuation really means. Told through her own conflicted reflections, "I Played With Fire" explores how a young woman's desire to seem experienced can blind her to her own true feelings.

A year of devotion crumbles when Marge's sweetheart Tony chooses his boxing dreams over finishing school, forcing her into a desperate game of jealousy that backfires spectacularly. Hurt and impulsive, she falls hard for Hank Carson—a charming fighter who sweeps her off her feet—only to discover her father's warnings about his shady reputation might be more than just parental concern. As the truth about Hank begins to unravel, Marge finds herself caught between the boy she thought she'd moved on from and a romance built on dangerous deception.