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This is the kind of guy girls dream about. That was Julie’s first thought when her new boss, the world-renowned doctor Professor Simon van der Driesma, entered the room. She’s taken aback, however, when this tall and handsome man tells her that she’s not the kind of secretary he would have chosen to hire! Simon orders her to travel abroad with him for work while she’s still feeling sore about it. Will their strained relationship develop in an unexpected direction on this trip?

He’s so dreamy, Josie wishes he were really her lover… Josie’s still a virgin and she’s reluctant to go to her school reunion because she knows her spiteful classmate will laugh at her if she goes alone. A friend suggests Josie hire an escort for the night, and that’s just what she does. The escort who arrives at her door is Callum, a man so handsome he seems to have stepped out of a dream. He plays the part of her boyfriend perfectly and Josie finds herself drawn to him. When they return from the reunion, Josie’s house has been burgled! Which is why Callum agrees to stay the night at her house…just to be safe.

For the sake of her brother, she is forced to marry an unfaithful man… To apologize for her brother’s misconduct, Stephanie asks to see his employer, Dominic. She and Dominic had once spent a night together, but her heart ached with humiliation when she discovered him passionately kissing another woman the very next morning! Now he greets her with a cynical smile, as expected, but then he makes an unexpected proposal. If Stephanie marries him, he will let her brother off the hook!

Libby gave birth to her child without telling her ex-boyfriend, Samuel, whom she’d fought and broken up with eight years ago. Her heart aches to see that her child resembles her father more each day. Then Libby gets in a car accident and falls into a coma… (The Promise) When Jolie was pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend, his brother, Drew, was the one who saved her. He married Jolie and did everything to help support her and the baby. Now, seven years later, Libby’s ex has come back! (Taggart’s Bride)

Andrew has an important goal in mind: he needs to get married so he can take over the family law firm. Kat has an equally important desire: she needs to find a father for the child she wants to have—but it has to be a man she has no chance of falling in love with. They can combine forces to attain their own personal goals—but can they keep their marriage purely contractual?

Yukinojo doesn't know his past, but he knows his future—a marriage to Asahi, heir to an apple farm in Aomori. But what should have been a quiet, pastoral life is interrupted one snowy day...and what should have laid dormant was awoken by his naïve hands...

Why can’t l be my true self when I’m with him? While dressed as a hooker for a costume party, Zoe meets a highly judgmental yet concerned gentleman. She fails to convince him that it is merely a costume and gets scolded for her profession. The next day, Zoe clears her mind from her embarrassing encounter and gets back to her true form as a serious and prudish accountant. However, her new client is James Cade, CEO of a world-class pharmaceutical company and the man who scolded her! Can he tell she’s the same woman from last night?

From Storm in Heaven:Alex and Rite are two souls who died at the same moment on different ends of the earth. This is the story of their interactions with the humans who can see them as they travel towards each other.

Zhu Yang knows she’ll die tomorrow, so she parties hard—only to wake up hungover with a dead ghost stuck in her TV. Her friends think she killed it, but she swears she’s just a scaredy-cat. Meanwhile, the ghost —who thought taking her down would be a piece of cake— has a lot to say about getting accidentally defeated.

"Abandoned by her parents and friends, Choi Yeon is a struggling college student determined to escape poverty. To conceal her circumstances, she takes a job as an in-house tutor for Ji Shinwoo, the reserved youngest son of a wealthy family. There, she meets his older brother, Ji Sinhyeok, the arrogant and possessive eldest son of the house. Before long, Sinhyeok ropes Yeon into running odd errands for him, pulling her into his world. Despite his cold and crude remarks and domineering attitude, Yeon finds herself drawn to him, torn between frustration and the hope that he might desire her too."

Single mother Keira must summon up her courage and finally face her son's father, Italian billionaire Mateo. Ten months ago, Keira was assigned to be Mateo's driver, but a sudden change in the weather one day forced them to take refuge at a small B and B...where they spent an unforgettably passionate night together! But when morning came, Mateo was gone, leaving behind only a large sum of money and a small life growing inside her. When Mateo learns of the consequence of their night together, though, he immediately confronts Keira and accuses her of keeping his son a secret!

Diary of a 20-something caretaker. After spending her entire life working in the fields and taking care of her family, Granny's been diagnosed with dementia — and I’m her new caretaker. Now I’m starting to understand the hardships of the women who’ve grown up in the patriarchy.

Dahye is still haunted by the abuse she got from Yeonhwa. Fate has it, Dahye is able to carry out her revenge after so many years. In what ways will Dahye get her revenge, and will Yeonhwa be even affected by it?

Charlotte Ramsey has a nice life laid out for her. She's getting married in a few weeks, but a certain excitement is missing from her life. Her goal is to have a comfortable life with children and a nice husband, but comfort alone can’t spark the flames of romance deep in her heart. Damien Wynter, after a chance encounter on a boat, may be the raging inferno of passion that'll ignite those flames…but should she play with fire? She may just get burned.

In his will Megan’s father had stipulated that she must marry within two years and have a child or forfeit ownership of the ranch. So now she must find a husband, and quick! She works up her courage to meet her childhood friend Nathan Bravo. Though they grew up together, he left town to work as a veterinarian in the city long ago. Now, twelve years later, Megan is determined to ask him to marry her!

On New Year's Eve, Carrie spends the night with her ideal man, but he vanishes the next day. Moving on with her life, she's goes to her new client's office, where she meets Rob—the man who vanished has reappeared as her client! She would usually refuse to mix her private life with work, but he's too attractive to resist… For his part, Rob is feeling flustered. He needs someone to marry in order to get his share of an inheritance, and he hopes to win his share of money and win Carrie at the same time…

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When Olivia married Greek millionaire Dimitri she believed their love would last forever. However, her happiness lasted only for six months when she discovered her husband had a lover, and even a child with her. I cannot stand sharing my husband with another woman! Since then, three years have passed. Olivia now travels to Italy to see Dimitri again, but only to sign divorce papers. But when she sees Dimitri, who is as attractive as he was three years ago, she realizes she still loves him...

[Batoto Scans] "How can I not spoil you...!" Tired of city life, former office lady Mizuho returns to the countryside. As part of her rehabilitation, she starts working for her father's friend, Sugahara Taisei. As she spends her days peacefully working with Taisei, whom she has known since she was a child, she slowly regains her cheerfulness. Taisei's offered her nothing but unconditional kindness ever since she came back. But as it turns out, the special feelings behind that kindness don't belong to just an "old friend."

A summer fling…with a blind man? On a solo trip to her uncle’s beach house for summer vacation, April is shocked when she comes face-to-face with a completely naked man. According to her uncle, this mysterious nudist is none other than the famous sculptor Hugh Davies, who is staying in the next house over with a friend. His movie-star good looks make April’s heart flutter, but Hugh does nothing but ignore her. April decides to confront the man about his bad manners, only to discover that he’s blind!

As if it weren't enough to be born as the bastard child of a noble, Valenti meets her final demise by starving to death after being sold as a slave by her very own father in her bankrupt country. But when she wakes up again, time has been rewound to right before she was sold as a slave. From then on, Valenti vows to become the lady in waiting to the so-called monster prince, to escape her horrendous past life's fate, and to hold up the prince as the nation's true emperor for her beloved country. After graduating summa cum laude as a lady in training, she chooses not to accept the prized fate of becoming an attendant to the empress, but to the one individual nobody would want to support. But her plans become mixed up when her position as lady in waiting is challenged by... love?!

How long does it take to heal a two-year-old heartbreak? Rachel has managed to heal from the heartbreak she suffered two years ago. Then one day a new executive at her company arrives with a crying baby. It’s Nick, the very man who dumped her! His younger brother and sister-in-law were killed three weeks ago in an accident, leaving his niece in his guardianship. Rachel wants to help the struggling Nick, but can she suppress her love for the man who dumped her?

"Nothing good has happened recently... Why did I choose this job?" Megumi Iijima, age 28. Occupation, 2D game designer. Every day I work overtime and on a tight deadline; I was supposed to be doing what I loved in this job, but my passion is fading. However, while working daily with my recently transferred junior, Takuya Minami, I start to feel something...?

Taking on someone else’s crime, she never expected the punishment to be as sweet as honey… Late one night, Tully sneaks into her brother’s office. Her hasty brother had tried to run away with company money, but if she can return it to the safe before anyone finds out, the crime may never come to light. However, the moment she opens the safe, the lights turn on! An intimidating man stares coldly at Tully. It’s undoubtedly Yate Meachem, the CEO her brother is so afraid of! How far is Tully willing to go in order to save her brother?

Harriet’s a logical planner—it’s what she does—but can she plan for love? Harriet wants to get married and have kids someday, so she decides to make a checklist for an ideal husband. For instance, he can’t be too handsome or too ugly, nor can he be too rich or too poor. Her boss, Alex, is dumbfounded when he hears this. Who would she want to marry such a boring man? It’s no wonder Harriet broke up with her fiancé. Despite being born into a poor family, Alex has become a successful real-estate developer. He more than checks off Harriet’s list, but she’d be an idiot to fall for a sworn bachelor like him. So what will she do when he asks her to spend a passionate weekend with him at a five-star hotel?

My younger boyfriend has been stolen by the only woman I trust in the office...!? I'm not going down until I win him back! I'll definitely reconcile with him!

"I’ve finally realized who is truly irreplaceable to me." After suffering a major heartbreak, Harold, a handsome CEO, meets Flora, a beautiful woman who reminds him of an angel. As he discovers his attraction for her, for one reason or another, his cousin Angela can't help but interfere…

Kass felt like she’d been struck by lightning when she locked eyes with a passionate stranger while on the fashion show stage. That mesmerizing gaze belonged to Leo, a refugee from Eastern Europe. They fell in love instantly, but destiny didn’t smile on them—soon after, Leo was in an accident and barely survived. Then he disappeared from Kass’s life. One day he showed up again, but by then she had twins and her career as a designer had taken off. Leo, it seems, is heir to his country’s throne and has come to collect his queen-to-be and his little princesses!

Alice fell in love with a businessman named Domenico, and began to live with him at his request. But six months later, Alice puts an end to her life with Domenico and flies back to England. The reason is that she discovered Domenico's hidden lover... And on top of that, he's always said that he would never marry. Even if she loves him, her body and mind are shattered at this uncertain future. But Domenico has chased her all the way to England. Why? The only reason she can see is that he desires her...!

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…

One year has passed since Annabella’s gambling, alcoholic husband died. Since then, she’s been relentlessly bullied by her mother-in-law, who has made her life a living hell. She finally gets to attend a ball once her mourning period ends, and there she meets Sir William, a strong, attractive gentleman. He seems interested in her, but she can’t believe he’d bother with a widow who is treated like a servant. Annabella doesn’t know what to make of him, but when she loses herself in his beautiful eyes, blue like the summer sea, she forgets everything else…

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He will do anything to protect his little angel’s smile. Marissa is a single mother who teaches people how to care for infants. While teaching, she meets a new student, the gentlemanly Alec. He lost his beloved wife a year earlier and decided to take Marissa’s course to learn how to care for his daughter. But after seeing Marissa pacify his daughter, he asks her to become his live-in babysitter. Marissa already has her hands full with work and her own son. But she also has to move out of her home, so she accepts the job and moves in with Alec. She promises herself she won’t become romantically involved with him, but that promise may be harder to keep than she thinks.

Hiyori longs for sweet days with her lover, and on the night she returns from the town hall, she meets a rude man who says, "Love is nothing." After that, I met Kuroto, who was just like I had imagined, and had my first date, my first kiss, my first sex, and my life as a lovey-dovey couple

At long last, he'll finally have his revenge. He, Atlas, remembers when Nike, a goddess, had trapped him, a Titan. She had carved her name into his chest, and even now it burned and ached. Following the fall of the Greek gods, he's become responsible for this prison. His imprisonment, until only a few days earlier, is still fresh and raw in his mind, especially the female prison guard, Nike. She had tried to claim his body for herself by carving her name into him, and the hatred he feels for her can only be reduced by inflicting the same humiliation upon her. He pins her down, while she screams and cries, and carves his own name into her porcelain-white back. After he is done, he commits to memory this dark yet pleasant feeling. With this she will know who she belongs to.

In a near-future Pyeongyang, clones have become an indispensable part of human life. Tasked to test XYZ Corporation’s latest prototype, biomedical engineer Dr. Yuri Lee is marveled by LPC-6, a physically perfect and intellectually superior clone designed for a single purpose -- to give unconditional love to his master. As she uncovers the depths of her unfaithful husband’s depravity, she finds solace in “Victor” and his extraordinary capacity for empathy. Will her desire for retribution and love set her onto a path of no return?

Inspector Reiko Kujou is a problematic detective who gave up the big-city police work to be transferred to the Akasaka Police Department. She's got the face and figure of a model, a keen mind, and on top of that, is an ultra-rich detective from a well-established family! Obsessed with brand-name items, doing car chases in foreign cars; she'll be stopping evil in a magnificent way! And how will the romance turn out between her and the younger detective Sanada who longs for her!? Intense romantic suspense from Nanao Hidaka!

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?

She uncovered his past, but she’s lost her own! Dominic, an inspector for Interpol, is astonished to learn he is the Grand Duke of Karlenburgh, a country that no longer exists. This exciting historical discovery was uncovered by a woman named Natalie in an old document, and his identity is soon broadcast to the whole world. He’s completely unable to continue his job as an inspector. He moves to Hungary with complicated feelings, but who should appear before him but Natalie? She’s completely lost her memory and can’t remember anything other than the words Grand Duke of Karlenburgh. And now it falls to Dominic to look after her!

The advertisement agency started by Polly’s father has been bought out by Damon Doukakis. Why would the leader of such a large corporation choose this tiny company as his target? The workers are baffled, but Polly knows exactly why: Damon is trying to punish Polly’s father for eloping with his sister, Arianna. Damon declares he will fire all of the executives, and also warns Polly that she will no longer have nepotism on her side. Damon’s arrogance and Polly’s determination to protect her company pit them against each other?but one night, sparks of passion end up leading to intimacy.

You taught me, "Love." Yaeko thought her arranged marriage will lead her to happiness. However, horror is what her husband teaches her instead. The only time Yaeko has a peace of mind is during simple conversations with one of her husband's workers. Innocence that brought two together end up in a passionate love of no return...

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Mitsuki moves to Tokyo to major in music at college. During her first summer in the city, she turns up to a job she assumed was at a piano bar, only to be given a maid uniform by the hot manager! She falls for him after he saves her on the train, but he's not very friendly towards her... The reason for that being... This is a summer romance filled with cute maids!

She’d adored him from afar…but now he’s ordering her to be his lover! “Can you bring me a guest’s laptop?” The strange request from a coworker at the hotel surprised Tawny. The goal was to delete pictures that should not have been taken of an overnight tryst. The name of the guest is Navarre Cazier, an important businessman from France. As a maid who has longed for him from afar, Tawny’s had to overlook such trysts. But as soon as she got her hands on the laptop, she was caught by Navarre. Then he made her an offer she couldn’t refuse: “I will buy your time with my money. If you refuse, I will call the police.”

A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he’s been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night, when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky, countless unidentified flying objects come raining down on them, the opening act for the terror about to occur.

How could a handsome king who rules a foreign land choose an ordinary woman like me to be his wife? The bride market... It was a competition where Omar, the handsome king of Samarkala, gathered the most talented and beautiful women from other countries to see which one is worthy of becoming his queen. Beth, who took part in the competition in place of her talented older sister, was convinced that she, an ordinary girl, would never be chosen. She only wanted the large sum of money that she could get as an entry fee to fulfill her own important purposes. But when Omar looked at her with a passionate gaze, he made an unexpected confession. "Beth, I need you," he said. These words were the beginning of a tumultuous romance that wouldl change Beth's dull life forever!

She’d always planned to save herself for marriage…so Mia is shocked when she decides to make love to a man she just met! They met at a party, and he made the world drift out of focus as she fell under his spell—it was as if they were destined to find each other. But she came back to herself when she woke up and ran out before even asking his name. Three months later, Mia was invited to her friend’s house for dinner and was shocked to see the man she’d made love to standing in front of her. He must never know that Mia is carrying a huge secret.