PENNY

Geraldine Francis is the innocent daughter of a wealthy aristocrat. Being sheltered all her life, she is oblivious to her cousin Charles' true intentions when he lures her in and makes her fall hopelessly in love with him. It is only after the murder of her father that she realizes his love was nothing but love for the money and the land that came with her name. She vows revenge, and she throws away her past in order to become "Silver," the perfect woman. With a new face, and a new lease on life, she will turn the tables on the man whom she once loved so that this time, it is he who will be left with nothing.Adaptation of English fiction Silver by Penny Jordan.

From JShoujo Scans: Geraldine Francis is the innocent daughter of a wealthy aristocrat. Being sheltered all her life, she is oblivious to her cousin Charles' true intentions when he lures her in and makes her fall hopelessly in love with him. It is only after the murder of her father that she realizes his love was nothing but love for the money and the land that came with her name. She vows revenge, and she throws away her past in order to become "Silver," the perfect woman. With a new face, and a new lease on life, she will turn the tables on the man whom she once loved so that this time, it is he who will be left with nothing. Adaptation of English fiction Silver by Penny Jordan.

Somer, the bright young daughter of an oil tycoon, sets off for the Bailiwick of Jersey to see her fiancé after a year apart…only to learn he’s cheating on her with another woman! Stricken with grief, the heartbroken young woman finds herself drawn to Chase Lorimer, an attractive photographer and experienced lover. On a whim, she steals away to a quiet cove with him…but it leads to a pain she’ll never forget. Five years later, a mysterious letter addressed to Somer arrives at the office…from Chase Lorimer. He asks Somer to marry him and says if she refuses, he’ll leak compromising photos of her to the press! All Somer can do is wish this nightmare would end as the memories of that horrible day come flooding back…

Charlotte is a lawyer who has just lost her business and home, only to then be dumped by her fiancé. To pay off her debts, she starts working at a local law firm led by Daniel, a big-shot lawyer. She thought she was going to work independently, but to her surprise, Daniel wants her to be his personal assistant! Charlotte feels like he doesn’t trust her abilities as a lawyer and wants to keep an eye on her. Loved by everyone and an accomplished lawyer, Daniel seems like he has the perfect life. However, Charlotte learns that he inherited his grandmother’s successful business and it makes her resent him even more. Clearly Mr. Perfect had everything handed to him on a plate, unlike her! Or…did he?

The moment successful lawyer Tullah met rumored playboy Saul Crighton, she could see why women were drawn to him, but she refused to be enraptured by his charm. Just when she thinks she has evaded his grasp, she finds out he’s her new boss! Now, in order to stop a poor young girl from falling in love with Saul, she has to pretend to be his lover. What will happen when these two appear as a couple at a masquerade?

Sam is a career-driven woman and the daughter of a governor, with the height and determination to put regular men to shame. When one of her colleagues teases her that she’s “not a woman,” she makes the decision to find and marry her soul mate. To her surprise, the one to throw a wrench in her plans is her father’s right-hand man, Liam. Because just before she leaves for England to find her soul mate, he gives her a passionate goodbye kiss!

He seems so cold and arrogant, but he’s the only one who believes me… After being falsely accused of embezzlement, Lark decides to confront the prosecuting lawyer to prove her innocence. What awaits her is gorgeous, intimidating attorney James Wolfe. Lark decides to trust James with her plea but finds out a week later that her information has been leaked! Tabloids paint her as a conspiring femme fatale, which results in Lark losing not only her job and home but also the trust of her family. Overcoming her despair, Lark reunites with James, who wants to help her fight her case!

Why is Luke O’Rourke at her brother’s wedding? Ten years ago, Luke was a manual laborer and Gemma a fifteen-year-old girl unloved by her parents. Luke was the first friend Gemma had ever been able to confide in. But she ruined their friendship when she asked him to teach her how to kiss. They haven’t seen each other since. Now Luke is the CEO of an architectural firm and Gemma is relieved that he’s happy to see her. But while he acts like a sophisticated gentleman, Luke is secretly planning to make Gemma his mistress…

Sara’s parents have just passed away. Now, saddled with a large amount of debt, she must sell everything she owns in order to pay it off. With no place left to go, Sara and her sickly brother, Tom, turn to their grandmother, Alice, for help. Alice welcomes them warmly, but Luke, who was once married to Alice’s other granddaughter, distrusts Sara. He believes that she is after Alice’s fortune, so he decides to marry Sara as punishment. Sara, who is drawn to Luke, reluctantly accepts the marriage, hoping that one day Luke will feel the same way she does.

Carly is busy at work at the event-planning business that she started with her two best friends when Ricardo—the CEO to the infamous Salvatore Group—requests to use her company’s services. Ricardo is a young billionaire who came from the slums of Napoli and rose to the top of the business world. He also happens to be very attractive and masculine. Carly’s job entails accompanying Ricardo on trips to various events; but Carly doesn’t realize what Ricardo has in store for her: he believes she’s a gold digger, and he plans to seduce her to prove it!

Katie's twin, Louise, married the love of her life, and Katie even helped make it happen. Now the pressure is on for her to find love. But she won't make it to the altar if she's run over in her home town. SebastianCooke might drive a bit fast in this small town, but he'll never be able to catch up with his daughter Charlotte. A chance encounter might lead to happiness for all three of them, but only if Katie can give up her crush on her sister's new husband…

Unable to let go of her hatred for her father, Olivia instead directs her negative feelings toward her husband, Caspar, and insists on a divorce. Caspar thus sets off on a motorcycle journey across America, hoping he can ultimately reconcile with his wife. Olivia returns home to England along with her daughters and finds the life of a single mother challenging. She has hardly anyone to turn to, as the rest of the Crighton family have their own lives to attend to. Just when Olivia thinks all is lost, she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, who wants to make amends with his family. Can she really let this man back into her life? Could doing so heal her marriage?

【A story by New York Times bestselling author becomes a comic!】The Crightons are a well-known, wealthy English family that has turned out generation after generation of lawyers. Jonathan and David are twins, and Jonathan, the quieter of the two brothers, has spent years living in David’s shadow. His wife, Jenny, even dated David first, until David abandoned her when she got pregnant. Jonathan proposed to her instead, as if to make up for David’s wrongdoing. But everything changes when David has a heart attack and collapses at their fiftieth birthday party. It turns out that David has been embezzling funds from a client, and the family is plunged into an unprecedented crisis. Problems that had

Rosy is in a terrible predicament. According to her grandfather's will, if she doesn't marry, the historic mansion she lives in will fall into the hands of her greedy uncle. In order to fulfill the requirements of the will, her lawyer strongly recommends a contract marriage with her childhood friend Guard. Rosy is hesitant at first, but it's the only option she has to protect her grandfather's beloved mansion. She finally proposes to Guard, who also accepts in order to save the mansion. He's arrogant, ill-tempered and far from her ideal man, but as time goes on, she finds herself swept away by his charm, even though she knows he's only marrying her to get his hands on the mansion... Or is he?

My small act of courage turned a cold night into a night of destiny… Emily is shy and reserved, which makes her the odd one out in a sociable family. She wants to fall in love but doesn’t want to be fooled and hurt again. One day, when her car gets stuck in a snowstorm, she is rescued by a man named Matt. However, his car is trapped in the snow as well, so they decide to spend the night in it together. In such close proximity, they are overcome with passion and Emily gives her virginity to Matt. The next morning, she has no choice but to hide her feelings as they part ways…

Years after divorcing her unfaithful husband, Kate Vincent arrives at work assuming it will be just another day. To her dismay, she finds out thather boss is being replaced by her ex-husband, billionaire businessman, Sean Howard. Desperate to keep Sean as far away from herself and her precious little secret, Kate immediately submits her letter of resignation and rushes home. The life she’s built instantly shatters around her when Sean shows up on her doorstep refusing to accept her letter of resignation and comes face-to-face with her secret.

Relations between European Union nations can be tense, but that’s nothing compared to the war that's been brewing between Professor Gareth Simmonds and Louise Crighton. When she was his student, she lost her virginity to the good professor. Years later, they’ve run into each other at EU negotiations, and it’s impossible to tell if the sparks between them will enflame their war or rekindle their lost romance.

Alena, the 19-year-old scion of a well-respected, old Russian family, falls in love at first sight with Kiryl, a man she met in the lobby of a high-class hotel. He cuts a devilishly stylish figure, so she has no idea that this man who wears an air of danger around him like cologne has painfully risen up from the slums to become a billionaire. With his sweet words and the simple press of his lips to the back of her hand, Alena readily offers up her body and her heart to him. She could have no idea, at the height of her happiness, that the dazzling pleasures he offers her are, for him, a means to revenge!

When her parents passed away six years ago, Beatrice gave up on her dreams to raise her brothers and sisters. Not only is she self-conscious about her appearance, but her family treats her like a servant. One night, while helping her sister with a party, she reunites with Elliot Chalmers, who tells her the painful truth-she isn't being treated right. She tries to argue with him. She just can't stand being around the man. If only she knew how Elliot really feels and that he and only wants what's best for her.

David Crighton never expected to find love when he returned home to Brussels, Belgium. So when herbologist Honor Jessop, who has a difficult past of her own, offered David a live-in position at her greenhouse nursery, he readily accepted it. During a particularly severe thunderstorm, David comforts Honor and calms her from her fears. With little to no knowledge of each other's past, they come to accept the imperfection of humanity and each other, but will David be able to overcome his past mistakes and find a future with Honor?

The Belair family's acting skills are famous worldwide, but Lucilla Belair has a problem. She thought it would only be natural for her to pick a career in acting, since she grew up in Hollywood, but she's lost one audition after another. Panicking, she decides she'll go to any length to get the role of her dreams, so she breaks into the hotel room of a famous director! But the man she meets there isn't the director at all...Lucilla wants to run away, but she's too intrigued by this stranger. It's as if he can see right through her...

He’s so arrogant, and yet she might be feeling something… Campion has a new editor, Guy, for her latest novel. He’s extremely harsh in his criticism and wants her to change the manuscript extensively. Needing space from Guy’s overly critical attitude, Campion retreats to a friend’s cottage in the country to focus on her writing. She is shocked, however, to see Guy waiting for her when she arrives!

After Rosy’s great-aunt’s death, she stays with her distant relative. But she has to go to Oxford because of a misunderstanding that she’s in love with her second cousin. There, she meets a professor in a wheelchair who hires her as his assistant after knowing that she’s unemployed. His kind stare and calm voice relaxes her, and she tells him her innermost secrets. That’s when he presents her the most surprising idea: “I’ll pretend to be your boyfriend so that they know it’s a misunderstanding that you’re in love with your second cousin. Why don’t we live together to make us look more credible?”

Unlike most girls, Lucianna Stewart could never get used to being feminine. She'd always been a tomboy, and it didn't help that she loved to fix up old cars for a living. Luce is tired of everyone making fun of her lack of femininity, so she decides to put her all into becoming the kind of woman that could attract the attention of a man... namely her boyfriend. What she doesn't count on is family friend, Jake Carlisle, offering to lend a hand. Luce has held a grudge against the man since they were teens, but reluctantly accepts his help. Jake, on the other hand, secretly thinks Luce is perfect the way she is... but wants to see her happy. He helps her out with everything from body language to fancy clothes, and soon Luce starts to catch on. But soon he's worried he'll lose her to a man who'll only notice her looks... without appreciating who she truly is. And after spending all this time with Jake, Luce quickly finds herself more interested in impressing Jake than her boyfriend. Will Jake let Luce go in the belief that she'll never love him? Or will Luce sort out her mixed feelings for him? [Originally uploaded on manhuascan.com]

Julia has a problem: her best friend Lucy’s husband, Nick, keeps trying to sleep with her. She can’t give him a piece of her mind because Lucy might end up hurt as a result. This time, he’s pulled her into an empty room at a party. But just then, Silas interrupts them. Julia can’t stand Silas, who is the son of an earl and chairman of an arts foundation. He has the temerity to ask Julia is she’s interested in Nick! Following her angry denial, Silas makes a Julia a proposition: she should pretend to be in a relationship with Silas to rid herself of Nick’s unwanted advances!

Enthralled by the kindness of a tyrant... With a baby in her arms, Marian finally arrives at Bellfield Hall. There are terrible rumors about the master of the mansion, Heywood Denshaw. They say that, as the despot of the town, he snatched the manor and the mill away from the person who was supposed to inherit them. When she finally arrives, the master and housekeeper come out together. Marian is captivated by his eyes—they’re as cold as the winter sky. Yet Marian must somehow get him to give her a job!

Lucy’s life isn’t exactly a fairy tale. Pret a Party, the company she founded with her three friends, is verging on bankruptcy due to her ex-husband's embezzlement. But she refuses to discuss the matter with her gorgeous trustee, Marcus, because while she’d fallen for him the moment they met, he’d always treated her like a child. Her powerful feelings for him have caused her nothing but trouble, and even her marriage had been an act of rebellion against him. But one evening, after Marcus forcibly escorts Lucy home from a party, he suddenly kisses her! The kiss leads to a night of passion…so why does she awake the next morning to find him as cold and distant as ever?

Natasha Lacey was born and raised in Sutton Minster, and what's left of her family still resides there at a place known as Lacey Court. Now on the brink of thirty, Natasha has resigned herself to being a virgin spinster for the rest of her days. That is until she suddenly finds herself trapped in the passionate embrace of the devilishly handsome Luke Templecombe! With her mind in a tizzy from the desire welling up inside her, Natasha struggles to fend off the alluring Luke.

Ruby, the youngest and most inexperienced of her sisters, went to a party solo one night where she met a very handsome man, Sander. She ended up going to bed with him. But the following morning, he totally changed his attitude toward her and kicked her out of his room. Six years have passed. The only thing that gives her life purpose is her twin sons. Out of nowhere, Sander appears and tries to take the children away from her, forcing her to make an bold proposition in order to spite this wealthy man!

His striking beauty took Charley’s breath away. He was the Italian duke Raphael Striozzi, the owner of the garden Charley had come to restore, and she was wearing work clothes covered in mud without a speck of makeup on her face! But her work in Florence, the city of her dreams, will involve more than digging in the mud—she’s staying in his mansion while she works on the property and in order to fit in she’ll be dressing to the nines when she’s not in the garden! But little does Charley know that this cheerful playboy duke has a dark secret…

Louise comes back to her homeland of Sicily after ten years in order to bury the ashes of her departed grandparents. But to do this, she must gain permission from Caesar, the Duke of Falconari.... Upon meeting him, she instinctively wants to run from him. In the past, she spent a single, dreamlike night with him before being cruelly discarded. But however much he hurt her then, his air of maturity and dignity tears at her heart again. As she trembles, he turns his dark eyes to her, his gaze seeming to pierce through her as he says, "I know you've given birth to my son."

Natalia Carini is a master massage therapist who’s devised a technique that has healed many people after years of pain. When a new patient, a polo player, comes in, she gets a bit too wrapped up in the massage and absentmindedly slides from business to pleasure. What would be a faux pas with any customer is magnified when she finds out that he's not just a polo player, he's Prince Kadir of Hadiya... and her future husband! Will the future queen be able to convince Kadir that she’ll make him a worthy wife?

Having grown up watching her mother jump from marriage to marriage, Tilly has developed an apprehension toward love. However, Tilly finds out her mother has told her soon to be fifth husband that Tilly has become engaged to the man of her dreams and will be bringing him with her for Christmas. Not wanting to turn her mother into a liar, Tilly hires a male escort to play the role her fiancé over the holidays. Who shows up at her door, but the tall and handsome Silas. Tilly couldn't ask for a better man to be her fiancé, but will she be able to keep her desire at bay?

Jenna's best friend Susie has come to her flat to beg Jenna to lie for her. She wants to trick her big brother Simon and go on a vacation with her lover. Nine years ago, Simon used to treat Jenna like a child, so this is the perfect opportunity for revenge. Jenna agrees, and she and Susie get their stories straight before Simon calls. Jenna's sure she has him fooled, but what if she doesn't?

After a car accident, Annie wanders through a life she no longer remembers, making very few friends. Thanks to the injuries she sustained, her only friend is her doctor, Helena. But a young twentysomething girl needs more than lawsuit money from a terrible accident and a woman twice her age as her best friend. She needs love. Love was one of the things Annie felt was missing from her life. Orphaned at a young age, she grew up without any parental affection. A dashing, sun-kissed man with eyes she feels lost in and lost without drifts through her dreams. But some dreams can come true, so when she sees a man that looks just like him in her waking life, she can't help but wonder: Has this man been just a figment of her imagination or is he a lost piece of her memories?

When young Faith was orphaned and all alone, she spent the summer with a kind and wealthy elderly man by the name of Philip. There she met his son, Nash, and fell in love for the first time. Her happiness ends abruptly, however, when intruders break into Philip’s home and he suffers a fatal heart attack. Faith is blamed for it and spends time behind bars. Nash will not believe her innocent, and she loses everything. Ten years later, Faith returns to the house as an architect for a renovation project and comes face-to-face with Nash…

Young Win already has a failed marriage behind her and a young son, Charlie, to take care of on her own. Ten years after the divorce, she's finally found someone to start a new life with...until her ex, James, decides to move back to town. Is he planning to steal her son away? Worried sick, Win comes home from work to find James relaxing in her living room with Charlie!

Lizzie’s family owes handsome Greek billionaire Ilios an enormous debt, and to repay him, he says Lizzie must become his wife. Although she runs a design firm with her two sisters, they are drowning in debt that their late parents left behind after being massively swindled. Determined to protect her family, Lizzie puts herself on the line and marries a man she barely knows. As Ilios’s new wife, she spends her days in a marriage that lacks both love and affection. Yet, although he is proud and arrogant on the outside, Lizzie begins to notice a lingering sadness within Ilios, one that she finds herself unable to walk away from…

As the granddaughter of a duke, Francesca is expected to proceed with an arranged marriage. But right before her wedding day, her fiancé abandons her! Unable to handle the pity and inquisitive stares of those around her, she leaves Venice and heads to England where she meets an arrogant novelist named Oliver. He shows up at her welcome party and overwhelms her with gray eyes the color of ice. Despite a horrible first impression, Francesca and Oliver end up working together on his upcoming novel… Could their working relationship become something more?

A wedding invitation sets an old love back in motion! Belle is in bed with influenza. When she answered the door and saw her ex-husband Luke, she loses consciousness. Belle had been working at a major investment consultancy company when she met Luke, who was only a postgraduate student. They fell in love and married young, believing that the difference in their incomes and position in society would make no difference to their love.... However their marriage did not last and seven years have passed since their divorce. In the flesh once again, Luke appears almost terrifyingly handsome, and she is spellbound by his mature manliness. But why has he appeared now...?

Julie looks after her late older sister's son, Josh. One rainy day, she hurries home from work when a rather tall man with an exotic face appears in front of her. "My name is Rocco Leopardi, and I'd like to talk to you about your nephew," he says. Julie had heard about him from her sister. This man was a relative of Josh's father. He tells her that he would like the child to undergo a DNA test back in Sicily. Scared of losing her beloved nephew, and having a hard time fighting back Rocco's charms, Julie agrees to go with her nephew and Rocco to Sicily

"He discovered where I was, and came to see me!" Samantha was on cloud nine to see him again at the bank of the oasis. A few months ago, Samantha traveled all the way from England to attend a joint geographical investigation committee of three Arabian countries. She bumped into the strong black-haired man with a large build in the hallway of the hotel, and they inadvertently hugged each other without warning, yet with immense passion. Since then, he has always been on her mind, and finally they meet again...however, he gives her a stern look and leaves. This is understandable—his name is Vereham, and he is the king of the proud desert country Dhurahn.

They had good reasons for marrying, but love wasn’t one of them. Dull John Philip. That’s Sophie’s boss. He may be a genius, but he still needs secretary Sophie to take care of almost everything for him. When he was given custody of his nieces after his brother’s death, he asked her to marry him so she could help him provide their care. A bewildered Sophie accepts, partly because he’s the only male she believes she can count on. Now that Sophie is taking care of the kids and living in his luxurious mansion, though, she’s detected a persistent fluttering in her heart!

The sinful stigma still tortures me now… At seventeen, young newlywed Kate barely knew what love was. She was prompted by her unfaithful husband to spend the night with his charming friend Dominic…only to be shamed by Dominic’s humiliating words. It was a horrendous night she could never forget. Years later, after her husband’s death, Kate is living a peaceful life when she unexpectedly runs into Dominic again. The encounter leaves her frozen from shock and despair. Those golden eyes that stole her heart eight years ago are still gleaming with contempt…

Who is this barely recognizable man standing before her? Max, a lawyer, approached and seduced Maddy purely because she was the daughter of a major player in the legal world. After they got married, Max was constantly unfaithful, piling up scandal after scandal with other women, and now he’s disappeared. Deeply wounded by her husband’s horrible treatment of her, Maddy begins a new job and tries to move forward with her life. Just as her new life is taking shape, Max appears before her again—now calm and gentle, as though he were a different person entirely…

Christy secretly harbors feelings for Dominic, who has looked out for her ever since she was a little girl. On Valentine's Day when she was seventeen, she offered her virginity to him, but he reacted surprisingly coldly, and cruelly crushed her adolescent feelings. Christy ran away shortly afterward, leaving her hometown behind. It's been eight years since then, and Christy must now return to take care of her mother. She has an unexpected reunion with Dominic, who is working as a doctor in town and who is more charming than ever! His handsome face and strong arms... He's stolen her heart in an instant...again!

Beth runs a porcelain and crystal shop with her best friend in a town that still holds vestiges of the Middle Ages. She was cruelly betrayed by a man who was only after her money, and her heart was torn to pieces. So she embarks on a trip to Prague, a city she’s always dreamed of visiting, after her best friend suggests it might help heal her heart. And while she’s there, she can always purchase some new products for the shop. Handsome Alex calls out to Beth when she’s unable to find a translator, but she’s leery about trusting him. He must be trying to take advantage of a woman traveling alone. It doesn’t help that he’s whispering sweet nothings the moment they meet, this man is definitely dangerous!

At the ball, she meets the prince of her dreams! Sarah is astonished to be approached by the man of her dreams at a masquerade party. She’d been so busy as a student that she never had time to fall in love and is still a virgin at twenty-five. So when Josh gently asks her out, she spends a passionate night with him! After the sweet dream of a night is over, Sarah resigns herself to reality and leaves without a word, but a few days later, she’s shocked when Josh appears as her new boss!