JACQUELINE BAIRD

Part-time hotel receptionist Phoebe and Greek multimillionaire Jed were crazy about each other. He embraced Phoebe and wrapped her in love and happiness. One day Phoebe discovers she's pregnant and joyfully reveals the news to Jed. But his reply is unexpectedly cruel-he says there's no man in the world who would want a pregnant mistress! In shock, Phoebe has a miscarriage and vanishes from Jed's life. But five years later, he suddenly reappears!

Jake D'Amato is a wealthy businessman with an eye for the art world. He feels compelled to buy a painting by the late Robert Summerville—of a model rumored to be the artist's lover. Who is this mysterious woman? Did she have a relationship with Robert? More curiously, did she also have a relationship with Jake? It wouldn't be a problem except Jake is falling in love with Robert's daughter, Charlotte. Can an international fling be tossed to the wind when an unexpected pregnancy is painted into the picture?

Well-bred Emily Fairfax has lost her virginity to a devil. She met Anton Diaz at a charity costume ball where the irresistibly attractive man appeared dressed as a dark angel. Anton is an entrepreneurial genius who has made a fortune on business buyouts, and Emily is unable to resist his skillful seduction. Before she knows it, Emily and Anton are married, and on their wedding night Emily finds herself in paradise. Until, that is, Anton tells poor Emily his true intentions and casts her in to hell…

My dreams of my first love came true…so why do I feel so lonely? After her parents passed away, Zoe was taken in by her uncle and fell in love with family friend Justin Gifford, a skilled lawyer who is thirteen years her senior. On her eighteenth birthday, he came to her party with his lover and broke Zoe’s heart. Two years have passed, but she still has feelings for the beautiful man. One Valentine’s Day, she’s reunited with Justin and he suddenly asks her to marry him. Though she once gave up on this romance, Zoe is ecstatic that he finally returns her love and marries him…only to find herself sleeping in a separate room from her “husband.” On top of that, she discovers that her marriage was arranged by her uncle… “Is this a loveless marriage? Am I the only one in love?”

Greek millionaire Leon Gregoris had been like a brother to Bea Stephen since childhood, and on her eighteenth birthday they got engaged. But only a little while later, she discovered he was unfaithful and she broke it off. Three years have passed since then, and now that Leon has assumed his father’s role as copartner at Stephen & Gregoris, he’s come back for her. Just remembering the humiliation makes Bea angry, but Leon doesn’t care—the first thing he does is kiss her in front of everyone at her twenty-first birthday party!※This work is originally colored.

Reunited with the only man she had ever loved, Marie didn’t know it was all a ploy for revenge… Marie took one look at the guest her grandfather had brought home and gasped. It was Rayner…the man she'd met seven years earlier and had been unable to forget. At the time, she’d fallen in love and given him her virginity. But a careless remark he made led to a quarrel, the police showed up and they went their separate ways. Marie had since moved in with her grandfather in France. Rayner didn’t seem to recognize her now. But for Marie the reunion was dredging up past emotions. How could she have known that the “chance” reunion had been a setup from the start?

Knowing that time is running out, Sally confronts her despicable, two-timing father demanding he show a shred of decency in her mother's final days. To her dismay, her father exploits the situation and uses Sally as leverage to save his own skin after embezzling millions from takeover king Zac Delucca. Well aware that she can't to pay her mother's medical bills on her own, she reluctantly accepts Zac's outlandish ultimatum and becomes his mistress.

Celibate Sara is enjoying her yacht vacation—at least until she runs into the last man on Earth she wanted to see! Guido is a businessman with a godlike body, and also happened to be Sara’s husband, if briefly. Ten years ago, their young marriage fell apart because of his family’s cruel treatment of her. Now that they’ve met again, Guido pressures her to be his mistress! While Sara is unhappy with the proposal, she resolves to let him have her body in order to protect her friends, who could end up in deep debt at Guido’s whim. Oh, but she’ll play the part of an experienced woman to the bitter end…

Abby fell in love with Nick, a millionaire, and they got married, but her happiness didn’t last long. She faced a cold bed, rumors about his relationship with an actress and his secret connection with his secretary...but she still loved him. When Abby joyfully told him she was pregnant, he unexpectedly pushed her away and said he didn't want it or her. He divorced her and didn’t even acknowledge the child. It has been four years since that dark, sad time in Abby’s life. Now Nick has appeared and is asking for a reconciliation. What does he want? Abby wants to refuse, but she feels like she’s been captured by his gaze...

Greek millionaire Leon Gregoris had been like a brother to Bea Stephen since childhood, and on her eighteenth birthday they got engaged. But only a little while later, she discovered he was unfaithful and she broke it off. Three years have passed since then, and now that Leon has assumed his father's role as copartner at Stephen & Gregoris, he's come back for her. Just remembering the humiliation makes Bea angry, but Leon doesn't care-the first thing he does is kiss her in front of everyone at her twenty-first birthday party!

A woman perfect for affairs-that was his first impression of Willow,the prep-school girl visiting a friend's house during summer vacation. A fancy party at the mansion is Willow's first experience with the finer things in life,as she's a bookworm used to a humble lifestyle. Wearing a provocative dress loaned to her by a friend,the shy Willow accidentally falls asleep in the kitchen-not thinking in her wildest dreams that the Greek tycoon Theodore Kadros would soon arrive,and not realizing how his gaze filled with lust when he looked at her...

A man shows up not long after Marlene's mother and Paolo, her mother's wealthy, married lover, die. The man says he's a friend of Paolo's and that he wants to discuss Paolo's will with her. But then she overhears a cruel plot against her: "Seduce that low-class harlot who's looking for a sugar daddy and leave her without a single penny." Because Marlene, her mother and Paolo lived together as a family, the man has mistaken Marlene for Paolo's mistress...and decided to punish her!

Was their rushed marriage based on love…or was it all a bad dream? While Lisa was grieving her mother’s death, her stepbrother, with whom she was on bad terms, for some reason introduced her to Alex, a famous entrepreneur. The meeting was like a lightning strike—Lisa fell in love with Alex at first sight and accepted his proposal to marry. In her dreamlike newly married life, Lisa was fulfilled in mind and body, but it didn’t last very long. Lisa happened to hear about Alex’s plan to destroy the company she’d inherited from her late mother. How could she have been tricked by his sweet words and fallen for his trap?

One day, Lucy visits Lorenzo, head of the Zanelli Merchant Bank, in order to save her late brother’s company from collapse. However, due to a dreadful incident in the past that left Lorenzo with an undying resentment for Lucy’s brother, he refuses to listen to her pleas. At her wit’s end, Lucy says she’ll do anything to save the company. Lorenzo isn’t about to let that statement slide. After a forceful kiss, Lorenzo lures Lucy into a devious contract—now he’ll have his revenge!

A year ago, Jemma had a passionate night with a man she’d just met. She tries to forget about her mistake and move on, but the guilt won’t let her. Jemma is still mourning her late husband and hasn’t been able to remove her wedding ring… She tells herself she won’t love anybody again. Then one day, she finds out about her father’s embezzlement, and the man who can save him is Luke Devetzi, the same man Jemma had her one-night stand with! Luke proposes a resolution be believes will solve all their problems—that is, for Luke and Jemma to get married!

I thought my fleeting summer love had ended in vain… Eloise is surprised to realize that the eyes following her at a nightclub belong to Marcus, the man she fell head over heels for in Greece when she was nineteen. After their first date, her mother told her that Marcus wasn’t really interested in her, and Eloise thought her first love was over. But now he’s back, asking her for a dance with that same smile from five years ago. Eloise feels as though she’s dreaming as she sways with him on the dance floor. Little does she know there’s a fire of revenge burning in Marcus’s heart…

He’s manly, sexy, and an international businessman to boot! Raul is the name of this perfect lover, and for Penny, she’s starting to wonder just what their relationship is. “We’re thirteen years apart in age, am I nothing more than his temporary plaything?” Penny decides that she wants to be on equal footing with Raul, so she proposes to him! However, things backfire on Penny when Raul misunderstands what she really wants and rejects her confession. She leaves the house in a shocking manner, but anew life begins to blossom from within Penny...!?