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from fictiondb: Small-town girl Trudy Baxter is ready to take on New York City. She's looking for excitement, adventure...and incredible sex! She wants to experience every little thing -- and every type of man -- the city has to offer. Her first target -- sexy Wall Street hunk Linc Faulkner. Only, once she gets Linc into her bed, she's reluctant to let him go.... Linc Faulkner has never met anybody like Trudy. She's so spirited, so sexy, so damn uninhibited! She's his every fantasy in the flesh. Only, Linc knows he's just the first man on Trudy's sexual wish list. So what else can he do but convince her that he can be any man she'll ever want -- and the only man she'll ever need....

Chinatsu Tokiwa has always struggled with changes to her environment and loves her peaceful life. One day, when the new hires join her company, she recognizes one of them... it's none other than her ex-stepbrother, Azusa! Chinatsu and Azusa became stepsiblings when her mother remarried his father, but they became estranged after their parents divorced. As Chinatsu is fretting over whether or not to set boundaries with Azusa at work in order to avoid any possible headaches at his welcome dinner, Azusa passes out drunk... and Chinatsu ends up taking him home. She puts him to bed and turns around to leave when he wakes up and reaches for her arm! Azusa shoves Chinatsu onto the bed with his big, masculine hands and tries to have her to himself... Follow Azusa's clingy love for Chinatsu after the two are reunited!

Wearing a scanty, see-through costume and dancing at a bar on the outskirts of town—it’s not glamorous, but it’s Georgia’s job, at least on the weekends. The pay is good and she needs to support her two children and her ailing mother. One night, she feels a special connection with a customer who keeps glancing her way with an intense, brooding stare. His name is Jordan…and he’s a passionate guy who’s not afraid of a fight. Could he be her knight in shining armor, who’s appeared on the horizon just in time to help her out of a tough situation?

How do you turn your super handsome best friend into your lover? Kyra, a regular office worker, has been crushing on her boss and best friend Michael. But she knows he's out of her league. She's tried dating other men, but she ends up getting dumped and told she's boring. At this rate, she might never experience love! Having lost confidence after getting dumped for the last time, Kyra stumbles upon a book — a romance manual for seducing men. "If I read this and turn into an enchanting temptress, I wonder if I could even seduce Michael..."

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It was only the beginning of his carefully planned revenge… After five years, Blair reappears in Sian’s life as the new president of her company. Blair’s cold gaze hides a dark plan—to take revenge on Sian for ruining his best friend and pushing him to his death. Sian is gripped by fear when she is assigned to be his personal secretary…and that’s only the beginning of his carefully planned trap

A fierce storm sweeps Melanie to her destiny… Melanie is regretting her decision to travel to England. A horrible storm is preventing her from finding the manor house where she’s supposed to be staying. Then a marvelous house comes into view. Its owner, David, is kind, and Melanie ends up staying the night. However, David wasn’t the only one staying there—Melanie’s welcome from the twins isn’t so warm, but almost like magic, she is able to get them to open up to her. David is charmed by her empathy and beauty, and so Melanie’s sleepless nights begin…

Xandro is the CEO of an Italian bank, and Joanna, a waitress. They fell in love, but at the peak of their happiness, because of her, their marriage suddenly turned into a living hell. Even though she loved her husband deeply, she couldn't let him touch her, no matter what. Before he could find out the reason why, Joanna decided it would be better to end the marriage, and took off. However, after their first meeting in over three years, the daunting secret that tore their marriage apart finally comes to light...

Before Andrea’s husband died, he was a professor studying the legends of King Arthur. In order to finish her husband’s final work, Andrea is staying at a thirteenth-century château owned by one of her late husband’s friends—a duke. As the sun sets one day, Andrea is taking photographs on the castle’s grounds when a man suddenly confronts her. “This area is out of bounds!” Her handsome accuser has sharp blue eyes that put Andrea in mind of the legendary Sir Lancelot. He is Lancelot Malbois de Lac, the duke’s only son.

Shintarou Kisaragi—a NEET who shut himself inside his room for two years—had been living his life normally until he met a cyber girl named Ene, who appeared in his computer screen when someone anonymously sent him a mysterious e-mail one year ago. One day, Ene messes with Shintarou's PC, which forces him to go to the outside world for the first time in two years.

She asks her boss to pretend to be her fiancé, though he prefers to remain single In order to avoid her mother’s incessant plea to make her get married, Livvy asks her boss, Conal, to pretend to be her fiancé. In secret, she’s in love with him, but he prefers to remain single. That’s why she’s been hiding her feelings for him. When she takes him home with her, she encounters unexpected aspects of him, which are totally different from his usual sophisticated side. At this rate, her love for him deepens even more. Livvy finds it extremely difficult to keep hiding her love for him…?!

Alice was waiting for a guest, an old boyfriend, Kyros. He suddenly disappeared ten years ago after telling Alice that he was returning to his homeland, Greece, to get married. So why did he call out of the blue to say he was stopping by? Alice wore a bold, black satin dress. She wanted to impress him so that he would regret ever having left her…but the moment Alice greeted him, her heart was immediately shaken. It didn’t matter how much time had passed… His light tan, his rough, pirate-like features and strong body—he was all too irresistible!

I know I shouldn't be attracted to the man who saved me… For a month now, Brit had been threatened by a stalker, and she was deeply frightened. In an attempt to convince the stalker to give up, she sent him false news about her marriage, which might have upset him, and the last letter she received hints at her death. Horrified, she sought help from Roman, a private detective. With years of intuition, he knew the danger she was in. Roman had one suggestion for Brit: "I'll be your husband." I know it's to protect me, but a marriage...?

It’s Gretchen’s job to make sure weddings go flawlessly, but this time she’s received a special request?Gretchen is to pretend to be lovers with movie star Julian Cooper during the wedding ceremony! Her ample figure and frizzy hair don’t look like the Hollywood dream, though, so how can she pull it off? When she meets the gorgeous Julian, he immediately notices that she’s a little stiff and decides she needs “acting lessons.” So he gives her a sweet kiss! Her next stops are high-end boutiques and a luxurious spa?she won’t be the same woman when this job is done!

Trying to get the truth out of him ends up taking the entire night… “I can’t make you happy anymore…” That was what was written in the letter left behind by Luke, Genevra’s lover, four years ago. And yet she hasn’t been able to get over him. One day, Genevra goes in for a job interview with a man named Christian Nemo. However, the man who appears before her looks exactly like Luke! His name and his clothes are different, but Christian Nemo is definitely Luke! Genevra believes this without a doubt and decides to spend the night with him in order to confirm his true identity… The feelings he awakens are undeniable. Is Luke really her soul mate? Or is it Christian Nemo?

A devastating car accident has taken a loving couple away from their newborn daughter. She's been given to her godparents to be raised, but one's a rich playboy, and the other's an earnest nanny that the world believes is a home-wrecker. Mario offers Sabrina a fortune to raise the child with him. Will she find that she can fake love if she makes enough money doing so? Mario may have slept around in the past, but will the love Sabrina has for her goddaughter spread some goodwill to the orphan's godfather? Mario might just make this woman an offer she can't refuse-his riches and his heart.

Love! Love! Fighting is about a young woman who currently has no money, no job and her father won't return her phone calls. Stressed and in sore need of a good break, Oriana finds herself in a difficult position when her bossy little cousins tricks her back to their home country South Korea. Come and join Oriana as she learns how to handle her troublesome family members and strange new friends, who all seem to bring new and unwanted stress to her life.

Alicia is a twenty-six-year-old virgin and eager to lose that status as soon as possible. But her brother, who raised her after their parents died, is standing in her way. She must find a man good enough for her…and who should appear in front of her but Rick Jones? He’s handsome, wealthy and kind. He’s the perfect one to give her virginity to. She is instantly smitten with him, but would she feel the same way if she knew he was lying to her?

"I'll marry the first man who introduces himself to me," Casey declared. According to her grandfather's will, if Casey doesn't get married within forty-eight hours, the company and inheritance she's counting on will all be given to her stepsiblings instead. Her grandfather's goal was to force her to marry Lash Marlow, the family's legal advisor and son of a prominent family. But it would be better to marry a total stranger than a sneaky man like him! Then Ryder, a handsome man with cold eyes, appears. What unconventional married life will befall these total strangers?

Even though popular romance novelist Margie has almost no experience when it comes to love, she writes under the pen name Silva, who is reputed to have had many lovers. Her real identity is a secret kept from the media. One day, she learns that Cannon, the elder brother of her sister's fiancé, is opposed to their marriage, so she calls him up. He informs her that the son of a plutocrat and a poor girl are a poor match. In order to convince him otherwise, Margie visits his villa in Florida, but can she resist his charms? And what will happen when he finds out that she writes the “pornography” he looks down on?

Out at lunch with her friend Silvia, Jayne complains about her boring work as an accountant—when in walks the most beautiful man she has ever seen! As they make eye contact, Jayne rushes out of the restaurant in embarrassment. No way a hunk like that would be interested in plain old Jayne! Yet she can't believe her eyes when the same man appears at her seminar. Could this be fate?

Since she was fourteen years old, Tia has loved and wished for a relationship with Drew, a man twelve years her senior. Now at the age of twenty-four, a twist of fate has brought her face-to-face with Drew. For one magical night, all her dreams seemingly come true. Once Drew realizes that she's the daughter of his good friend, the age difference between them takes a toll on his conscience. Will Tia be able to overcome the obstacles ahead and finally have the relationship with Drew she's always wished for? Or are a baby and a callous marriage of convenience all that her wishing has amounted to?

After a farming accident injures Giselle Foster, she takes a vacation in the Fala'isi Islands to recover, and there she runs into Roman Magnati, first prince of Illyria. Giselle soon receives chilling news from a farmhand that she is in deeper financial debt than she realized and has no choice but to sell her father's farm. Believing she has nothing left to lose, Giselle joins Roman when he asks her on a trip. Convinced his affections will lead only to a one-night stand, Giselle keeps Roman at arm’s length. Is she a fling for Roman, or is there more to it than she realizes? And…what about those magazine pictures of Roman and Leola, Giselle's twin sister?

Can love find a way when a stern duke falls for a freethinking woman? William Calthorpe, fourth Duke of Aylsham, values tradition highly. His impeccable manners have earned him the nickname Lord Appropriate. One day after moving, he finds himself the neighbor of Verity Wingate, the daughter of a bishop. Verity takes an interest in him and tries to peer past his stern façade, but his walls appear to be impenetrable… Until one day, the two of them are forced to spend the night in a cottage together on a deserted island. There, Verity sees a side of Will she never expected to find, an emotional Will with whom she shares a sweet kiss. Close

The wedding dress has been perfectly made-it's a lace-trimmed satin dream custom ordered to match the dress that an adorable house mouse wears in Lisa's favorite book. Fran is going to wear the dress and become Litrik's bride-well, she is going to become Lisa's mother. After all, the marriage is for Lisa's sake. So, to please Lisa, Fran will wear the mouse's wedding dress. Fran is ready to become six-year-old Lisa's mother and to make the rest of her life happier than ever. So even if she isn't marrying a man who adores her, she is still marrying for love...

College student Soshin Kang has made a deal with the devil. When poverty and violent loan sharks force Soshin to take up an offer from Aram, Soshin’s high school friend-turned-bully, to live in Aram’s lavish house with all expenses paid, it seems like a dream come true. Although Aram appears sweet and gentle, in reality she is a cold, manipulative stalker who is obsessed with Soshin and will stop at nothing to keep her to herself. As people around her begin to get hurt, Soshin finds herself in a race against time to uncover the truth and escape Aram’s grasp.

One day Devon is asked to go on a business trip to cover for her coworker who caught a cold. Devon, no fan of Christmas and already tired of the city’s holiday mood, happily accepts the assignment and heads to Germany. At the airport she meets her client Cal Logan, a successful businessman. She is struck by his beautiful face but determined not fall in love. Too bad Cal isn’t making it easy for Devon to stick by her decision.

Isabel is a doctor who works at her father's clinic. One day she encounters the person she least expected?Ross Templeton, her first love. It was seven years ago that Ross left the village and abandoned their relationship. So why has he come back? As an independent person, Isabel is determined not to fall for him no matter how charming he is. But she learns just how hard that will be when her father tells her Ross is going to be her colleague at the clinic!

Evelyn inherited the title of viscount as well as a splendid estate… He has everything he could possibly want, but his heart is still heavy. Six years ago he stole the virtue of his good friend’s younger sister, Loveday Trehearne, but what could he do? The two of them were from different classes?they were torn apart and haven’t spoken in years. Now Evelyn is looking for someone to paint a mural in his new manor and has received a proposal from a mysterious artist named L. Trehearne.. This volume also includes the story Lady Loveless. Someone has been writing novels that scandalize all of London, but Count Alexander Beaumont refuses to believe that the mystery author behind these shocking books is his quiet, modest wife, Melicent!

Eriko is hired as the home tutor of three young boys who all turn out to be sexual harasser.

Irene saw that, despite their openness with men, her mother and sister remained unfulfilled. Because of that, she decided to keep her virginity until she met and married the man she loved. But the first moment she sees Sharif at her friend’s wedding reception, that resolve is shaken. Sharif, a rumored playboy and the emir of a desert country, is beautiful and arrogant, and he easily seduces a kiss from the innocent Irene. But when he tries his usual tactics to persuade her to come into his bed, Irene rejects him. Irene’s resistance only makes Sharif’s passion and interest grow stronger… Will these two strangers from different worlds be able to find a world of happiness all their own?

Shizuka goes to a party but can't get into the mood. Just then, a stunning woman named Ryou approaches her. They ditch the party to have a drink together and quickly hit it off. Shizuka ends up going to Ryou's place afterward, where Ryou suddenly pushes a kiss on her. Shizuka thinks that Ryou must be a lesbian, and then she feels something hard below Ryou's waist. Could Ryou actually be... a man...!? Shizuka's mind goes blank as Ryou's fingers delve into her deepest area...!

나를 버린 너를 찾아줘 Isaac Esteban, the one I loved and who loved me in return. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ He, who had been so devoted to her, suddenly betrayed Calliope for the saintess who had traveled the lands in search for knights to defeat the demon king. He turned his back on Calliope and left to follow Clementia as the chosen knight fated to subjugate the demon king, who is resurrected every 500 years, saying he felt true love for the latter. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Foolish Calliope waited for him, hoping to take that one chance to cling to him when he returned. She could never forget that gaze that looked at her so lovingly. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ He came back a year later, dead, without a body and only his name left behind. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Stricken with grief, she lived as if she were in hell for a year. In the end, during the parade for the one-year anniversary celebration of the demon king’s defeat, she climbed up the bell tower and jumped to her death. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Stupid Calliope. Foolish Calliope. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ She could neither forget nor throw away the man who had done the same to her. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ She, who threw her life away like that, opened her eyes once again. To her childhood. To the day before she entered the Marquis’ household. To the days as a young child with nothing.

Mistress to a Sheikh—When Jade met Khalil, a prince from a desert country, she was captivated by his deep blue eyes. After passionately surrendering her virginity to him, she began living with him in a magnificent villa. But even after two years, he still won't introduce her to his family. Can Jade go on living with their arrangement? Mistress at the Italian's Command—After Ally's twin sister was deserted by a married man with whom she was having an affair, she tried to take her own life. His relative, Vittorio, tries to shield his family from the scandal by making it look as if she was actually his own mistress. What he doesn't realize is that Ally is pretending to be her twin sister…

I'm learning to love myself. Hyeonjung, a physiotherapist, dreams of drawing comics despite her family constantly putting her down. Her boyfriend Seulgi is a successful cartoonist, but he can't stand it when he finds himself in a rut while Hyeonjung matures and evolves. The two find themselves on the way to splitting up...

We’ve grown so close it almost feels like we’re a real family… Abby was looking forward to her break—she was planning to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and go to a cottage on a small island that she’d inherited from her great-uncle. But when she arrived, she found a man and his son already living there! When she tells them that they’re trespassing, he laughs at her. There was some kind of a mix-up, and Abby’s great-aunt leased the place to them for six weeks. If she tries to kick him out, he’ll sue for breach of contract! She has no choice but to share the place with them for two weeks until the boat comes to pick them up…

When Misty Malone, self-described tomboy who is as stubborn as she is beautiful, goes to small-town Kentucky to attend her sister’s wedding, she meets Morgan Hudson, one of the five famous and handsome “Buckhorn brothers.” Despite the physical chemistry between the two, Misty is determined to never let another man get close to her. But as she spends more time with him, Morgan’s kind and reassuring demeanor has her questioning her resolve. Can the two overcome the secret Misty harbors about her past and admit their feelings to each other?

Alessandra works at an advertisement agency in London, and is married to Cameron Calder, a well-known CEO of a large enterprise. The charismatic Cameron always manages to charm anyone he meets, but when he first meets Alessandra, she treats him coldly. Cameron is fascinated by this "cool lady," and asks her to marry him! But Alessandra doesn't know...that this marriage will bring a seemingly endless suffering...

Why does he leave me feeling so suspicious? Faith decided to work as a manager at Rose Cottage, a seaside villa. However, Lady Sunny, the villa owner, only wants to talk about the wonders of marriage and doesn’t explain the job to her. Faith is not interested in marriage at all and is very suspicious of Harry, the man of the house… He keeps trying to interfere with Faith’s work. Why does the extremely attractive Harry suddenly find himself worrying about her?

Aram Nazaryan was one of the world's richest billionaires, but in the desert country of Zohid, he was famous in a different way. He was a horrible man who had played with and abandoned the royal princess to whom he had once been betrothed. Kanza had always believed the rumors, because the princess who had been abandoned was her half-sister. But after meeting him for the first time in over ten years, Kanza began to feel a connection with him. He proposed to her, but she was soon overwhelmed by a cruel truth. Is Aram's goal to marry royalty and get the minister's chair?

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Charlotte is about to be married to a British marquis she’s never even met before. When her father’s gambling habits caught up with him, he offered the hand of Clarice, Charlotte’s twin sister, to pay off his debt to the marquis. There’s just one problem—Clarice has gone missing! So Charlotte ends up disguising herself as her twin sister to become the infamous old lecher’s bride in her place. She can’t believe her misfortune…until she meets him face-to-face and learns he’s nothing like she’d imagined. He’s young—and shockingly handsome. But his eyes are full of contempt for Charlotte and his words are full of scorn. It’s true their marriage was born of obligation, but why is the marquis so cruel to her?

I swore that I'd never fall in love again... Taylor has worked long and hard to make her comeback as an actress, and is dedicated to making her newest movie a success. Upon attending a party at the powerful Corretti family's home to promote her film, she meets Luca, the troubled child of the family. He is handsome and sexy...but also a notorious playboy whom she would be sorry to get involved with! As she tries to leave, Luca suddenly pulls her in and they engage in a passionate kiss. However, unbeknownst to her, their hot steamy encounter had been captured on camera and would be leaked to the world...

"Let me touch you even deeper." His sweet whispers make my heart race… I want to marry him, even though I've decided to know my place in this world and lead a steady life…!

You expect me to sacrifice myself to save you from your own problems? “Wait, we’re still married?” Elizabeth, a matchmaker for wealthy clients, is presented with a shocking truth by Greek billionaire Xander. It’s been ten years since she met him during a trip, fell in love, got married and was abandoned mere days later… During those ten years, she has been working hard to get back on her feet. She knows if she were to get involved in a scandal with a notorious playboy like Xander, she would lose the trust of her clients. Elizabeth just wants a divorce—but Xander insists he needs her as his wife before deliberately setting up a tabloid shot of the two of them, forcing her cooperation!

Bookstore owner Rose gets shaken up by a rose she finds in front of her store with a card reading “A rose for Rose.” The message written on the card was what James Sinclair used to say to her. James was a perfect man who was admired by everyone and embraced Rose passionately. But when he learned that their college romance was only a game, it ended in disaster. An unforgivable mistake was made—can he ever forgive her?

Talia disguises herself as her twin brother to enter the desert kingdom of Zohayd, only to be kidnapped and held captive there. Just as she realizes her desperate situation, a handsome man makes an explosive entrance and appears before her. Seeing through Talia’s disguise right away, he tries to seduce her. It is only after Talia kisses him that she discovers his name is Harres Aal Shalaan. He is the prince of the family that sent her twin brother to prison! Her burning desire for him quickly shifts to intense hatred…

He doesn’t want her love or her virginity. All he wants is a fake relationship. Eva is a celebrity born to a superstar father and designer mother. She’s sponsoring a charity party in honor of her late mother but, of all people, her first love, billionaire Dante Vitale, shows up at the last minute to take her brother's place! Five years ago, she offered her virginity to him, and he coolly rejected her. Now, after finishing her speech, the two share a passionate kiss out on the terrace, which turns into a major scandal, so in order to keep the press at bay, the two agree to pretend to be lovers for a short time!After years of stifling her writers muse and acquiring various uninspiring job-titles, Victoria Parker finally surrended to that persistant voice and penned her first M&B romance. Turns out, creating havoc for feisty heroines and devilish heroes truly is the best job in the world. In her spare time she dabbles in interior design, loves discovering far flung destinations and getting into mischief with her rather wonderful family.