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All Lina wanted was freedom from her controlling father and her duties as princess. Abandoned in America as a child, Lina never counted on anyone but herself . Then she falls for Sebastian Hawk, a fellow college student. But Sebastian is actually an undercover bodyguard hired by her father to keep a close watch on her. Sebastian takes his job very seriously, and wants nothing more than to protect Lina, though, he can’t help but find her innocence enchanting. He manages to remain professional until the day he`s recalled from duty...the day he breaks Lina's heart. A few years later Sebastian is sent to find Lina and bring her home, but that won’t be so easy. Lina wants nothing to do with her lying bodyguard. What will become of these two? Will Sebastian still be able to resist his feelings for Lina? Will Lina be able to forgive him?

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When Aoko was four, a meteorite struck her town. It then rained for twenty days straight, and the crater became what’s now known as the Twenty Day Lake. Two decades later, Aoko can’t remember the day the meteorite fell, or anything of her life in the town beforehand. And so she dives deep into the lake, searching for that something in her memories that she can’t let go of…A 1-volume manga.

In the sparkling city of New York, Avery fell into a passionate affair with Guy. However, on the night of her birthday, she learned that Guy only wanted her for sex and they had a terrible breakup. To think they’d reunite in Colorado at a festival where she’s been hired to work as a sommelier! Avery is angry at herself for remembering the nights she spent with Guy and tries to place distance between them, but he offers her a tantalizing proposal that causes her heart to waver. He proposes they enjoy a no-strings-attached relationship until her work there ends.

Roxy used to be a popular singer but her father spent all of her earnings. She’s been living in misery ever since and now sings at a sleazy bar while also working as a part-time cleaner—things could hardly get worse! And then Titus, the Duke of Torchester, appears before her one day. He claims that he is the owner of the apartment building where Roxy lives and that he doesn’t want an objectionable woman like her living there. He demands that she move out as soon as possible. Clearly there’s been some misunderstanding, but he won’t listen to any excuses from her!

In the desert country of Zulan, Katrina, a visiting natural sciences researcher, is mesmerized by a man she meets one day in the marketplace. His eyes shine a brilliant amber, and he exudes the strength of one who lives in the desert. Chased by armed soldiers, he approaches Katrina, and pretending to be lovers so that he may make his escape, leaves her with a passionate kiss. Even though it was just an act, why does her heart beat so anxiously?

1) The Restaurant of Many Orders (Soko wa Chuumon no Ooi Ryouriten)A young woman frequents a certain French bistro. She would really enjoy the food they serve if only it weren't for the bossy chef owner. "You may not like me, but I love your food."2) Toumei Ningen no Koi (Invisible Girl in Love)A story about a socially awkward girl who’s kept to herself for so long that she may as well be invisible to her classmates. Then, one day, she falls in love.3) MatryoshkaA sweet analogy of the Russian doll: Matryoshka.As each doll is opened up to give another one, so do each memory containing his feelings towards her…4) The Selfish Couple5) Drops.A series of interconnected vignettes depicting how something as ordinary as rain can alter the course of people's lives.

Reunited with the man she can never forget…could this be the beginning of her love story? Emma spends all her time taking care of other people, especially her sick mother. Recently, she’s been running into the charming Dr. Wyatt around town and she’s starting to think of him more and more often. He always seems to be there when she needs someone the most. But the day Emma’s mother passes away suddenly, the doctor is nowhere to be found. Then he returns from a trip overseas with an unexpected proposal…

My first love… I want you to make me yours… Jenna takes the plunge and goes out with her roommates for a night on the town. Her debut as a socialite is just around the corner, and she wants to fall in love rather than marry the man her parents choose for her. When Jenna meets Brent, a man with dangerous charm, she can't take her eyes off him. But he treats her like a child, accusing her of playing games…

In 19th Century England during the Victorian Era, there is the Kingdom of Tarnina Ulaniborg. The Kingdom has a Royal Academy where Royalty and Commoners can study Astronomical Research in hopes of becoming a Royal Astronomer. Astel Paschalis attends the Royal Academy as a scholarship student with a certain hidden motive.

Raised by her rich grandfather, Hope is a very introverted girl. She'’s never been able to talk to man, but that doesn'’t stop her from crushing on the sexy, billionaire playboy Luciano. At her grandfather'’s annual New Year'’s Eve party, she meets him again—and would you believe it, he picks her to kiss for the new yearwhen the clock strikes twelve! Hope'’s confused, but she has no idea Luciano and her grandfather have secretly signed a business deal involving her. She'’s just too happy!

Alyssa is selected to be Prince Benito's maid while he is visiting from the neighboring country of Niroli. To Alyssa, the young, beautiful and popular prince is someone beyond her reach and she is too shy to even look him in the eye. But one day, while cleaning the bathroom, Alyssa finds a lipstick that the prince's girlfriend has left behind. The lipstick looks glamorous to the naive Alyssa, who has never even put on makeup before, so she faces the mirror to apply it. But Prince Benito, who has seen everything, suddenly appears…!

Hela is cursed to lose her magic if she doesn't engage in a sexual relationship. As she feels her magical powers gradually wane, she decides to move to a quiet village. There, she encounters a young man named Calvin, who has nowhere else to go, and they decide to live together.

In a world that resembles an otome game, the villainess is determined to rewrite her fate! Iris Gray, the daughter of a duke in the Kingdom of Calm, was living the life of a typical noble lady until one day, she suddenly regained memories of her past life. There, she realized she had once played a famous romance game and now, she had been reincarnated as the villainess, destined to be executed for harassing the heroine known as the Savior. With death looming as her scripted ending, Iris resolves to avoid her tragic fate at all costs. Her first step? Breaking off her engagement to Prince Elliot, the key figure in her downfall. But theres a catch Elliot is so in love with her that he outright refuses to let her go. Amid this inner and outer turmoil, a hidden power awakens within Iris a unique magical gift called Perception, which grants her complete control over all forms of magic! With this newfound ability, Iris realizes she may finally hold the key to reshaping her destiny and preventing the execution scene that awaits her in the games original plot. Can a so-called villainess truly survive and write herself a new ending? A tale of romance, fantasy, and a brave rebellion against fate the journey to flip destiny begins now!

Your Highness, the ruthless prince, please enter a political marriage with me.” I woke up to find myself reincarnated as a pitiable side-character noble in a novel. If things stay this way, I’m destined to die and the world will collapse. To survive, I must reform the mastermind behind it all! However, my familia is the weakest—a tiny chick...

On the outskirts of a small harbor town in England, Eleanor has learned to do without. While she has a place to live at her grandmother’s inn, not a single guest has spent the night in the last six months. Then, just after she makes the difficult choice to cut and sell her long, beautiful hair for money, Oliver Worthy, the captain of a ship that anchored in town, comes to stay. Having exhausted the last of his strength to get there, Oliver’s health fails when he arrives and Eleanor tends to him. He is a stern man, but after learning of her circumstances, he offers to help. And as Eleanor spends more and more time with the captain, a tender feeling starts to take hold…

Prince Drax, Sheikh of Dhurahn, has to find a temporary bride for his twin brother. Enter Sadie Murray, a stranded Englishwoman who is in need of money after being fired from her job. Drax decides she will be the perfect candidate, due to her desperate situation. He takes advantage of her plight by not giving Sadie much of a choice to be under his employ. But will Drax have the nerve to go through with his plan to make her a makeshift bride for his brother?

Fumino, an alpha, receives the life-changing news from her doctor that her alpha sex organs aren't functioning. She can't accept that she isn't able to impregnate omegas, and that's when she meets Kaoru, a male omega in heat. Fumino quickly realizes that they're a fated pair, but for some reason Kaoru, an omega, is pinning her down...

Tony Caroselli will receive thirty million dollars if he gets married within the year and provides a male heir. So Tony, who has no interest in relationships, has offered Alice a short-term business arrangement. But on their wedding day, an unexpected guest turns up—Lucy. She’s Tony’s former girlfriend who left him four months ago. Lucy certainly looks different from what Tony remembers, though. To his surprise, she is pregnant with his child!

As I was spending my student days alongside my beloved girlfriend, one day, she suddenly said goodbye to me. After becoming a shadow of my former self, I learned that she died after struggling with an illness. The diary I received from her family was filled with her happy memories with me.

Hotaru Shina is an office worker with a powerful libido and imagination to boot. She spends her nights alone, pleasuring herself with adult toys. One day, while she's working overtime, she realizes she brought one of her toys to the office! To make matters even worse, Ryo, the top sales rep and someone she looks up to, walks in on her holding it! She thinks he'll be repulsed, but the usually sweet Ryo reveals his own dirty appetite. He pounds her hard with something way bigger than she's used to. She'll never be able to go back to satisfying herself again...!!! They've got great physical chemistry!! This is a secret office romance about two people who were made for each other.

Born into a family that serves the Four Guardians of the Imperial Capital, she was nothing like the others—lacking any spiritual power, making her worthless in their eyes. As if that wasn’t enough, she was blamed for a tragic incident in the past, labeled a “sinner”, and forced to live a miserable existence in an abandoned corner of their grand estate. But everything changes when she encounters the leader of one of the guardian families. The moment he touches her, something unbelievable happens—flowers begin to bloom from her body! That single encounter marks the turning point in her life, setting her on a path she never imagined possible. Was she truly “worthless”, or had her hidden power been waiting all along for the right person to awaken it? A captivating fantasy romance with a Japanese touch, where pain turns into strength, and the outcast becomes the most cherished woman in the empire!

he man wants Christmas delivered to his home in just five days. What does this lonely tycoon truly desire? Max is the CEO of a big company. His sister and niece are coming over for Christmas this year. He urgently needs someone to deliver Christmas to his home, but his secretary has plans of her own. Her cousin, Sophie, agrees to help out, as she was afraid to spend Christmas all by herself for the first time. At first, Sophie is annoyed by Max's negative attitude toward Christmas, but she begins to realize that it's his way of hiding his painful past. She becomes attracted to him, but how can she make him see that?

Jennifer Norton of Nortons Distribution needs a date for a business banquet on a moment's notice. The escort hired for the event has come down with the flu, but don’t worry; his best friend and CEO of Charteris Enterprises, Steven Leary, will do anything for a friend and a woman in need. Will Steven help Jennifer break her bad habits of falling for the wrong man... and taking home dozens of stray animals. Or is Jennifer destined to forever be a cat (and squirrel, and snake) lady in an unfulfilling relationship?

It's all about the lives of the author's family of cats.

Ever since her father discovered oil below the desert kingdom of Khayarzah, Francesca has been childhood friends with Prince Zahid. After meeting again after many years, Zahid's eyes are captured by this girl who has blossomed into maturity like a beautiful rose. To Francesca, Zahid's always been her first love. She's now engaged to another man but her heart still flutters at the sight of him. When Zahid reveals her fianc?'s infidelity and adulterous behavior, the engagement is broken off and Francesca is heartbroken, even if he only meant it for her own good. He then invites her back to his country to assist him in his work, where she has no idea how drastically her life will change.

Zoe Grace has taken in her late sister’s twins and begun working as a housekeeper on Isandro Montero’s estate. Zoe has committed herself to work hard for the twins until they grow up. But Isandro fires her during their first encounter after he finds out that she held a charity event at his estate’s gardens without his permission. Desperate to provide for the kids, Zoe tells Isandro she’ll do anything to keep her job…

Restaurant owner Winona blushes at the burning stare from her handsome customer. It may be an old-fashioned idea, but Winona has decided she won’t cross the line with any man unless he intends marriage. Her customer’s name is Connor and he’s a detective in the middle of an undercover investigation. He’s learned that there’s a prostitution ring being run out of the restaurant and that Winona is the head of the organization. In his eyes, Winona is a devil in an old-fashioned dress, and he’s decided to seduce her to get the information he needs!

Marianne, a sixteen-year-old orphan, was suddenly informed by Carstairs, her guardian, that she will be living with an aristocrat. Marianne thought that he was going to be a kind old gentlemen, but upon arriving, she is welcomed by Desmond, a wild young man who perfectly fits the description of a rake. Apparently, Desmond played a game of poker with Carstairs and won the right to become her guardian. Believing that she was a high-end prostitute, he wasted no time and brought her to his bedroom. Marianne couldn't believe what was happening to her, and in the arms of this man, she couldn't believe her fate.

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. "Remember where it feels good." "I thought it was just a one-night stand. Now you want to get married, and you know everything about my mind and body!..." Nanaka is the daughter of her company's CEO. Due to her busy work life, she isn't able to be honest with the people around her. Two months ago, however, she met Yodai, her friend with benefits. They get along well, and she's not afraid to be naked with him both physically and emotionally. "You're always so honest." Yodai pleases her with his fingers, his mouth, and his you-know-what. "I don't even know your real name... I thought things would be simple! Why are you trying to marry me?!"

"It feels good getting bullied in bed, doesn't it?" My loving boyfriend turns out to be a sadist?! I'm tied up with his necktie with my clothes off... and it feels so good! Mao has been having relatively vanilla sex with her kind boyfriend, Shota, because she can't bring herself to tell him that she's a masochist in bed who wants him to be more aggressive with her. So as not to scare him away, Mao finally decides to try her hand at BDSM play on her own. With handcuffs and a whip at the ready, she enters her world of sexual fantasy... However, at the worst possible time, Shota happens to stop over to her house! When Shota sees the handcuff marks on Mao's wrists, his eyes suddenly change color, saying "Let me overwrite those bruises with some of my own"... After experiencing this new and unusual, devouring-type sex, these two can never go back to how it used to be..."

"I sell love within a birdcage of 150 meters." Mayu is a 29-year-old divorced mother. She spends her days earning money in a relationship with between men and women without doing the deed. Her happy married life is short-lived and her son's sudden illness twists Mayu's fate further. With a tattered body and soul Mayu desperately struggles to provide for her son who is her only family. She continues to do her best waiting for the chance to escape the confines of her cage. However, she must face the cruel realities that fate had in store for her.

Come heal and find love in Jeju! 3rd-generation Korean-American Brenda falls in love with Jeju Island while researching its female divers. She decides to take the plunge and move to the island with her husband. There, she dives deep into Jeju's history and culture while healing, growing, and building friendships along the way.

Yuma (mc) founds out that her partner has cheated on her, which breaks her heart into pieces. She lost her reason to live and in search of it, will help her closest person- a childhood friend, akari.

Johaness got Sophie’s roommate, Lisette, pregnant then left her. Since Lisette left the baby with her, Sophie needed Johannes’s help to take care of his baby. So Sophie forced herself into Johaness’s company. Surprisingly the man she found wasn’t at all what she was expecting—he is the late Johaness’s half brother!

"I don't want for someone who meets me for the first time to do this." Uiko is an omega who is working at a company while posing as a beta. She has to do this in order to protect herself from approaching alphas whose pheromones could start her estrous cycle (heat). When she suddenly enters her heat and her pheromones can no longer be suppressed, she rushes to the matching salon "AΩ". At this place dedicated exclusively to Alphas and Omegas, Omegas can safely get over their estrous cycle. Simply put, it's a "sex salon". And that's where she meets the mysterious Alpha whose face is hidden behind a mask. "Even though I met him for the first time, he smelled sweet and I melted just as my body was deeply drawn to his... I want this person deeper into my body! What is this feeling I can't seem to control even though it's my first time?"

Within the dim corridors of an ancient library resides Sohwa, a mystical dokkaebi (goblin) with a flame that burns both fierce and gentle. Her presence is a haunting melody to the restless soul of Yunwoo, a young master who dares to stake his very essence for the chance to hold her love. Through lifetimes that weave heartbreak and longing, and in a dance of reincarnations fraught with missed steps, their bond teeters between destiny and despair. Can the embers of their love reignite amidst the ashes of fate, or is their passion fated to flicker out in the winds of time?

In the past, she was known as the wicked girl in South City, but in reality, she was not very intelligent. After being falsely accused, having her reputation destroyed, and being hit by a car, she gets a second chance at life. Despite being labeled as wicked, she will not let the truly evil people have the satisfaction!

Walt Kelly started his career at age 13 in Connecticut as a cartoonist and reporter for the Bridgeport Post. In 1935, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Walt Disney Studio, where he worked on classic animated films, including Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia. Rather than take sides in a bitter labor strike, he moved back east in 1941 and began drawing comic books. It was during this time that Kelly created Pogo Possum. The character first appeared in Animal Comics as a secondary player in the “Albert the Alligator” feature. It didn’t take long until Pogo became the comic’s leading character. After WWII, Kelly became artistic director at the New York Star, where he turned Pogo into a daily strip. By late 1949, Pogo appeared in hundreds of newspapers. Until his death in 1973, Kelly produced a feature that has become widely cherished among casual readers and aficionados alike. Kelly blended nonsense language, poetry, and political and social satire to make Pogo an essential contribution to American “intellectual” comics. As the strip progressed, it became a hilarious platform for Kelly’s scathing political views in which he skewered national bogeymen like J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon. Walt Kelly started when newspaper strips shied away from politics —— Pogo was ahead of its time and ahead of later strips (such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks) that tackled political issues. Our first (of 12) volume reprints approximately the first two years of Pogo —— dailies and (for the first time) full-color Sundays. This first volume also introduces such enduring supporting characters as Porkypine, Churchy LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Seminole Sam, Howland Owl, and many others. And for Christmas, 1949, Kelly started his tradition of regaling his readers with his infamously and gloriously mangled Christmas carols. Special features in this sumptuous premiere volume, which is produced with the full cooperation of Kelly’s heirs, include a biographical introduction by Kelly biographer Steve Thompson, an extensive section by comics historian R.C. Harvey explaining some of the more obscure current references of the time (read an unexpurgated version here), a foreword by legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin, and more.

After her engagement to the crown prince was called off, she was assigned to marry an unsociable duke. "You're my wife, aren't you? You can't reject me." Minerva is the daughter of a marquis and the crown prince's fiancee, but her engagement is suddenly called off one day. Shortly after that, though, she is assigned a new fiance: Duke Mars, the younger brother of the current king. His beauty and position are unrivaled, so any young lady would normally be delighted to marry him. However, he's famous for being unsociable and hardly ever showing up at social occasions or even smiling in public. Minerva is unsure that she can be happy marrying him, but what Mars shows her during their bridal night is an incredibly sweet, devoted side of him, peppered with intense, possessive caresses!

Théo, a count and a businessman, knew he liked what he saw as soon as he met waitress Carrie. But their relationship had one important rule: don’t bring love into it. Carrie sees him as a Prince Charming, though, and falls in love anyway. She’s desperate to hide this from him, but when she lets it slip one day, he abandons her on the spot. And not long after, she’s shocked to learn that she’s pregnant. A year later, Théo insists that Carrie pay a visit to his castle in France, and she introduces him to their son. Who else but Théo would have the temerity to suggest that their child is her revenge?

Anna's nineteen, and she's had an unrequited love for Evan for two years. But the thirty-four-year-old Evan treats her like a child and doesn't respond to her attempts. Even that wouldn't make Anna give up on him, though, until one day when Evan comes to a party with his former lover! "Am I really that much of a bother to him?" Anna makes the decision to cut herself off from him. But, noticing how her attitude has changed, now Evan is the one with his heart in turmoil!

Crazy siblings? Or unique siblings? A little sister with a brother complex isn’t so easy to handle!

Taemuk han is a 39-year-old Barista who opens his own coffee shop. He likes being free and finds it hard to get the right woman. Yeoun Sun is a 28-year-old woman who wants to be a Designer and wants to be a cool career woman who spends her life alone. However, she can't get her career started and somehow ends up working at Cafe Velomano.

Let The Idol Fly is a talent show held by Apple TV, and will select 8 girls from 100 trainees to form a idol group. Song Zihe is one of them. And Ling Jingye, as the president of Hao Feng Group, was steady, efficient and fierce. But when he accidentally knew Song Zihe online, a new world appeared in front of him. He became her fan and treated her as the treasure and even used all his money and ways to cheer her up! 邪道总裁的专属女团

“I planned on stopping with a kiss, but… I love you so much, I can't stop." She was so adored by her first love who she was reunited with, she felt like she might faint… Hirotaka, the childhood friend of Nozomi, a worker in the General Affairs Department, showed up for the first time in decades. His looks and career achievements were so perfect, and Nozomi thought that he had completely forgotten about their feelings for each other, but… “I remember everything about you, Non," he said. The moment he gently called her by his old nickname for her, her heart started throbbing again… That night, Hirotaka invited her out to dinner and they had fun reminiscing about the past. But, as usual, Hirotaka treated her like a child. Losing patience, Nozomi gave him a hot kiss to surprise him. Hirotaka's face changed to that of a man deeply aroused… He said, “You're the one who riled me up, aren't you?" and pushed her down…!? As he gently teased her and caressed her powerfully, her mind went blank and she couldn't think a thing… “I'm not letting you go now…" Unable to keep up with everything happening so suddenly, her body and her soul craved everything about him…

On the very day the blind Duchess regains her sight, she catches her fiancé cheating! Determined to take back her family and get revenge on the scumbag, she makes a bold move—swapping grooms at the altar! And who better to marry than the infamous, dangerously handsome fugitive everyone is after? Thus begins the thrilling tale of a runaway duchess and her suspect husband—a marriage of convenience that just might turn into love!

A man, Ran Weiting, brought a horrible memory to her. He loved her and tamed her with all means, from love to destruction. Being afraid, she racked her brain to escape from him, from fighting back to giving up. He tried his best to help her gain freedom even on the cost of himself. She loved him and gave up many times for him. At last, she firmly decided to be with him all her life.