ROMANCE

His heart was captured by a mermaid who didn’t even know her own name. From the moment the gorgeous, sexy stranger washed up on shore, millionaire Jarret Wilkenson was suspicious. Since he was one of the most eligible bachelors around, women were forever using strange antics to propose. And while this captivating visitor's amnesia routine was unique, he wasn't going to let her beauty distract him…

If I can't get married, I should never have met him in the first place. Helen is ostracized from social circles because of her relatives. While attending a ball in London, she is rescued by a stranger when she is almost kidnapped by thugs. The man is so tall and handsome, a lovely gentleman. A sudden change in the weather forces them to spend the night in a cabin they find by chance, but they part without revealing their true identities. But who would have thought that Martin, the next Earl of Merton whom she meets again at a dinner party, is the one who saved her? But she has to put his infatuation to rest because she believes she's not worthy of him!

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. From Okazu:Mermaid Line is a collection of stories that ran in Yuri Hime magazine. They are collected together as short mini-series, done in an episodic, almost soap-opera-y way.In "Megumi and Aoi " Megumi confesses to her friend Aoi that, despite her

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"What is it, Mr. Amakusa? Don't tell me you're planning to make midnight visits to my bed?" Aki Kurumi, 29 years old, meets Shisui Amakusa at a singles' mixer, and what should he unexpectedly propose but a paper marriage...! And once she starts living with Shisui, who is a touch out of sync with her, it kicks off a string of miscommunications and minor catastrophes! Their life as newlyweds (on paper) gets off to a bumpy start, but it's somehow almost cozy... "I didn't realize I would be so happy... to be needed by someone." They each chose this paper marriage for their own convenience, but could they become a real husband and wife? What is "love"? What is "marriage"? This is a bumbling love story that depicts how men and women coexist.

Childhood friends Koutarou Fujiki, Kajiwara, and Fuyuko thought they would always be together. They spent their youth in a strange love triangle, the two boys fighting over who would date Fuyuko. But suddenly one day, that life ends. Kajiwara goes missing, and Koutarou takes his sweetheart’s hand in marriage. Now middle-aged, Koutarou is left to wonder—would his wife have chosen differently if Kajiwara was still around? On a visit to his hometown, the memories come rushing back...

Legend states that the ghost of a student who died at Seikyou Private Academy still haunts the grounds to this day... A truth that first year student Teiichi uncovers when he stumbles into that very ghost, Yuuko! However, with no memories of her previous life, she enlists the help of Teiichi and opens a paranormal investigations club to unravel the school’s ghastly mysteries. From Maybe, the author of "Tales of Wedding Rings".

The girl wanders aimlessly in her youth. With school. With her family. With her friends. And…These so called feelings of love, it’s the not the time to start...

After years of unrequited love, Angelica finally marries Lord Dominic, but he remains cold and distant. To make matters worse, Angelica’s uncle selfishly betrays the family. As endless debt and sorrow pain the poor girl, she tragically decides to end it all... Yet, she somehow wakes up in the past, returning to the day she proposed to Dominic. Was it all a dream? One thing is clear—Angelica won’t commit the same mistakes again. “I don’t love you anymore, Dominic. Let’s break off the engagement!”

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After leaving her isolating life in Tokyo, 34-year-old Nichiko returns to her remote island hometown for her estranged alcoholic father's final days. There she meets Chimaki, an eccentric young man who stirs up old memories and feelings Nichiko had all but decided she no longer deserved. But despite his puppy-like enthusiasm for life, Chimaki's almost obsessive need to rescue people and animals seems to be compensating for an unspeakable past.

Isabella is the princess of Niroli, an island kingdom in the Mediterranean Sea. She is currently undertaking the task of putting a worldclass resort on her beloved Niroli. If she can make that happen, Niroli will surely flourish. Isabella wants to start negotiations more than anything, but the person in charge of the project, Domenic, has no desire to listen to a spoiled princess with no redeeming quality but her beauty. When he sees that she has no intention of giving up, Domenic presents her with a proposition. He says, "I want you to spend at least a week on the island where I was born." This is the fourth installment in the royalty romance series "The Royal House of Niroli".

Gift Hisono is a gifted painter cursed with financial woes. On the brink of finishing his latest work, his trusty palette knife suddenly snaps! In a desperate attempt to afford a replacement, he steals paint from his close friend and fellow art club member, Taima. This act of theft witnessed by another club member, Kadomi, marks the beginning of his poisonous downfall...

Plot: Kurosaki Sou is a 16 year old who summons a devil to take his virginity. He hopes for a devil with flaming red hair, large horns, and black wings. He gets exactly what he wishes for, although he forgets something else rather important. Now he's forced to live with this devil and has to think of a way to get rid of it, and most importantly – survive its lust.

Isaeng and Jeongto were inseparable childhood friends until Jeongto’s father died tragically at the hands of a bitter soul. These two friends reunite ten years later as adversaries: Isaeng guides souls to the afterlife, while Jeongto gives souls another chance to live. After all this time, can these two work out their issues? And what do the Kings of Hell have to do with all of this?

On his way home from work after an all-nighter, the workaholic Dr. Jikumaru Touji falls through a mysterious hole and wakes up in... another world! There, he stumbles upon the nearly dead assassin Naina and saves him with his "healing powers," but come morning, he discovers that for some reason, he now looks like a kid!? Jik (Jikumaru) starts looking for a way to return, while Naina protects him from this strange new world where the only law seems to be the law of the jungle. While Jik is busy with that, though, he starts to feel that maybe living in this world together with Naina wouldn't be so bad... but is that possible?

The love that I had given up on years ago is still alive… After only a year of marriage, Lewis divorced Lacey—who found out she was pregnant soon after! Deciding not to tell Lewis about the surprise pregnancy, Lacey raised their daughter, Jessica, by herself. But nineteen years later, Lacey runs into Lewis again at an incurable disease fundraising event. Seeing the man who broke her heart into a million pieces brings back all the memories of the past—his smell, his touch, his passion. But when Lewis sees Jessica, he confronts Lacey about the truth…and reveals the secret he thought he’d never have to share with her…

Under normal circumstances, 24-year-old Dam Lee wouldn't move in with a random guy who she just met, much less a 900-year-old one. But these aren't normal circumstances: she accidentally swallowed the bead of a gumiho (a nine-tailed fox from Korean mythology) named Wuyeo Shin, and if they don't find a way to extract the bead from her body within a year, she'll die and he'll never become human. Can Dam and Wuyeo find a way to remove the bead from Dam's body before it's too late? And will Dam ever find love, especially when her unusual circumstances restrict her dating options?

Yue Lao is the god of matchmaking who is tasked with tying all manners of gods, spirits, demons, beasts, and humans together with their fated significant others with the Red String of Fate. It is a job that allows no room for errors. Awaking from a drunken slumber, Yue Lao finds himself in a peach blossom grove with no recollection of the night before, but more importantly, he finds a Red String tied around his wrist. On the other end of the string is the equally drowsy and confused warrior god Er Lang Shen. "Erlang Shen! Why did I wake up with the Red Cord fastened to your hand and mine?! ..Did I fail doing my job?" Neither of them know what happened the night before or how they ended up here, but Yue Lao doesn’t care. He has a goal, and that goal is to find a way to untie this red string as fast as possible, come hell or high water..The story begins with two male deities waking up to find themselves bound with a red thread. ..Does the red thread of fate make people fall in love? or do they get selected by the God of Matchmaking because they are in love?

Allie's beloved uncle passed away, and she is tormented by regret that she wasn't able to make it to his funeral. She decides to live her life on the vineyard that her uncle bequeathed to her, but then her first love, Xav, appears in front of her eyes as the co-owner! Xav is opposed to comanaging with an amateur, but Allie plans to learn everything she can about vineyards from him in the two months before the harvest. Seeing her being so proactive makes Xav's love for her return. But at the same time, he knows that he can't let himself get involved with Allie. And yet, he can't seem to control the passionate feelings inside him…

Suddenly caught up in the power struggle of the gods, the chosen Hwiyoung attempts to escape from the heavens in order to return to her younger brother, who is left behind in the mortal world. Amidst the chaotic celestial realm, where some gods seek to protect her, others wish to destroy her, and some wish to use her, Hwiyoung ultimately decides to confront her fate head-on.

Ikuko, an Arasa girl, has someone she is dating. But he is a so-called useless man who freeloads at Ikuko's house and doesn't get a regular job. Ikuko tries to break up with him because she doesn't have a bright future with him, but she always ends up bonding with him for some reason! Just then, a high-spec handsome guy appears, aiming for her Ikuko...! ? A loopy love between a useless man and an around 30-year-old girl! The charm of a useless man explodes!

This is brought to you by the same author of "My Wife Is From a Thousand Years Ago". "If you could go back in time, what would you do?" "I would go to the school entrance and wait for you every day to pursue you shamelessly until you're my girlfriend. What about you?" "Hmm... I will definitely carefully wait until I'm twenty-four to get to know you again, then gradually fall in love, then get married, and then ask you this question. I live cautiously because I'm afraid that the butterfly effect will make me lose you."

When life throws Linden Taylor another gut-wrenching punch, she decides to recover on a beach. She books herself a cruise and it’s full speed ahead to an adventure in paradise. Her assumptions are not far off, but what’s an adventure without a little kidnapping? To add insult to injury, her captor is none other than the roguishly handsome, albeit infuriating, Steven Dare. Now confined to this remote little island with a handsome devil, Linden’s moral compass spins with reckless abandon. How will she find her way to happiness now?

He seems kind and reserved, but he is overflowing with passion… Only after the death of her parents does Lisette learn that she was adopted and has a different birth mother. She moves to Paris and works at a seedy saloon to make ends meet, and there she is approached by an elegant aristocrat. He says he will rescue her from this cesspool. She is sure he just wants to seduce her, but she can't get this nice, kind man out of her mind. However, she has no idea that he’s just using her to find her mother!

I want to support him as he faces his destiny...even if he doesn’t love me. Cassiopeia’s greedy stepmother and stepsisters have taken the hotel her father left her, and she is forced to work there like a servant. One day, Prince Rhys of Verina, who is rumored to be looking for a bride, arrives at the hotel. If her stepsisters are chosen as the bride and leaves with their mother, she can take back the hotel. Cassiopeia has faint hopes. However, Rhys told her that he had bought the hotel, and then he said something even more unbelievable. “I came here for you, Cassiopeia, as my wife.” Why...why did the prince choose me as his bride?

A 4-koma manga about an almost expressionless guy who tries his best to get closer to the person he loves, but always ends up being misunderstood because he looks kinda scary to her.

Choi Ah-ran, a novelist and publisher, runs a publishing company while hiding the humiliation of her past as Jo Ah-han, a writer who made a big name for herself 20 years ago with an internet novel about the most popular of Sanggo High falling for an ordinary high school student. Ah-ran goes to her parents' house, where she grew up, to announce the end of her engagement, but loses consciousness and is dragged into the realm of internet novels, 'Cheonyang.' Cheonyang is completely different from reality. Her now divorced parents affectionately wake up Ah-ran, and emoticons expressing their feelings appear in the speech balloon. The spelling is a mess! Such a cliché blabber! Ah-ran goes to school in an unguarded moment and realizes that this is an imaginary world where the laws of Internet fiction are constantly occurring. ‘This is a world I made up, so I can escape!’ While searching for a way to go back home, she goes to the city with her friend Soyoung, and meets the Four Heavenly Kings in the arcade. Ah-ran falls off the stairs and lands on Kang Hwiyoung, their leader. 'Oh, no! If I fall like that, there is a high probability that I will kiss Hwiyoung regardless of my falling position!'

BACK WITH A VENGEANCE Former crown princess Reinhardt Lincke withers away from the grief of losing her father…until she suddenly finds herself fifteen years in the past at his funeral! Gifted with a second chance, she doesn’t hesitate to stab Prince Michel Allanketh—her betrothed and the man who sent her father away to his death. But before she can seek proper retribution, she is banished to the cold and isolated domain of Luden. Though her situation is dire, not all is lost as she’s saved by a wild boy—one she recognizes as a future war hero and Michel’s very own “mad dog.” Meeting this pup may be the key to Reinhardt’s revenge…that is, if she can tame him!

Alice Seno seems like a normal girl in high school. She's a bit shy, she's got a crush on a boy named Kyou, and she's got an older sister who is more popular than she is...pretty normal stuff, until Alice has an encounter with a mysterious and magical rabbit girl that changes the course of her life, and Alice is introduced to the sublime power of the Lotis Words.

Kusakabe Maron has lived alone for a long time, since she was young and her parents left to travel abroad for their jobs. Her rent gets paid every month, and she always has money for food or whatever else she needs or wants, but her parents haven't even sent a single letter to her in all the years they've been gone. Even though right across the hall is Maron's best friend, and she always puts on a brave face, Maron always dreads the empty apartment at night and the time of day when she stops and checks her mail box, which never has anything in it. Then she meets Finn Fish, the tiny angel-in-training which tells her who she really is: Kaitou Jeanne, the reincarnation of Joan of Arc (called by her French name, Jeanne d'Arc in the series)! Now, as well as dealling with normal high school and an empty mailbox, at night Maron must become Kaitou Jeanne, the amazing art thief who uses special divine tools given to her by the will of God to sneak into people's homes and other places to "steal" beautiful objects which have been inhabited by demons who control the beautiful souls of the people who love the art. These people become greedy and cruel, and will stop at nothing to save the art. And so Jeanne leaves a note card, designating the time she will arrive to steal the art. The process used to seal the demon, however, also causes the art to disappear, and where paintings were a beautiful angel now fills the empty canvas. However, the athorities cannot allow this to go on, and Maron's best friend, who dreams of becoming a detective and is the daughtor of a police chief, will stop at nothing to capture Jeanne and comes up with a new trap every night. Then the smooth-talking Chiaki moves in to the apartment next door to Maron, at the same time as Kaitou Sinbad appears and begins to seal demons as though he were in competition with Jeanne, and with his sidekick, another angel-in-training named Access Time, he is beginning to thwart the police as well as Jeanne. Maron might have bitten off more than she can chew now, because the greatest obstacles still lies ahead: Falling in love with her worst enemy next to the devil himself. Reads this manga from right to left

What do I do? I came here to sort out my feelings, but now I’m in love! Caron, a spoiled young lady who is a lawyer, is having her wedding in one week. Her fiancé cheated on her, but she can’t call off her wedding just because of that. She uses her work as an excuse to visit Canada. Unexpectedly, her client, Ewan, attracts her attention, his deep blue eyes wanting to know the truth…

Lorentz Dinkel, a local artist, was commissioned to paint on a store's wall. Little did he know the angels, Julius and Marion, come alive at night. Julius and Marion have fun traveling about until then Julius meets the artist and...Beautifully told, a dazzling love story!

Growing up in a single parent family, she longed to have a father and brothers. Imagine her excitement after hearing that her mother's remarriage will fulfill her wishes! However, upon arriving at her new home, she accidentally swallowed their family trea

I'm from Taiwan, 17 years old, and I'm still a virgin. Toby, a freshman boy, leaves his hometown and travels to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he becomes roommates with three college students with very different personalities.

She’s been kidnapped…by the most seductive man! Lora goes to France on a business trip to sign a contract for her company president. Once there, she’s met by an elegant man named Luc. He claims that something urgent has happened and beckons her to follow him, then he proposes that she skip her business meeting and enjoy some vacation time with him instead. Her refusal brings out another side to Luc and she soon finds herself trapped by this seductive man…

A love that could change the world. And yet, their hearts are torn apart... That summer is a special sparkle in her life. An 18th birthday party. The first time she is allowed to wear a grown-up dress… And Beth meest him, Lyon Cantrell, that day. He is the only son of a prestigious family with the same name as the town they live in. They spend an entire summer being together and making love, but when Beth becomes pregnant, Lyon suddenly disappears. Although she is gutted by the cruel treatment, Beth gives birth to his child and raised him. --Nine years have passed since then. Lyon suddenlys returns and see Beth again, this time with anger and distrust...

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The story is about a girl who has the ability to see others’ emotion and handle them. She comes across a boy who seems to have no emotion at all and turns out he has the same ability as hers.

This is a collection of loosely interconnected stories where the main characters are all animals, especially the tiger who is the hero of the first book.

Mikoto Urabe is a new transfer student in Akira Tsubaki’s high school class. One day, Akira happens to find Mikoto passed out asleep on her desk after classes have ended. He wakes her and tells her it’s time to go home, and discovers that she has drooled on her desk. He spontaneously reaches out to touch and taste it … and then things start getting really strange. In this surprising and sweet twist on a high school romance story, boy meets girl and they learn about each other’s inner lives through their highly unusual bond, and Akira learns to respect Mikoto as she sets a careful pace in the development of their relationship.

Thousands of years ago, Vampire King Akabara "Red Rose" Strauss lost both his kingdom and his queen. Since humans were unable to kill the queen, they sealed her away, erecting thousands of fake seals so that the king would never find her true location. Despite being pursued by relentless dhampires, Akabara continues to search for his queen to this day… Akabara's quest takes a sinister turn when an entity called the Black Swan appears. The Black Swan inhabits the body of a young human girl every 50 years, giving her the power to destroy the Vampire King and his queen. With each incarnation the Black Swan grows stronger--will the 49th Black Swan mean the end of Akabara?

“O devil of my Ducommun ancestors— please stop this marriage...!” The twin sister—Giovinetta Valdemar, or Lady Devil herself, branded as such after her husband’s heart was ripped out on their wedding night. The twin brother—Johannes Valdemar, the exalted hero and shining sun of House Valdemar. Torn from Johannes by their mother as children, Giovinetta can only glimpse her unrestricted brother through the single window in the room where she’s kept under lock and key. So when Giovinetta is next betrothed to a much older nobleman, the fear of yet another cage drives her to make a desperate plea for help to the devil of Ducommun—a wish that is answered by transforming Johannes into a devil himself! Will this creature be her salvation or lead them both down a treacherous and forbidden path?

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Although Rita Cardinale married Grand Duke Giuseppe Catane to help her lover George become emperor, she is stabbed in the back by the love of her life and loses her entire family. As Rita uses her alchemy to try and stop the emperor's army from taking her fallen husband's land, she is sent back in time to right before she's married. Full of vengeance, Rita wants to stop George from becoming emperor. For her plan to work, she marries Giuseppe again, but why is he acting so different from before?

As the demigods of Sacred Fire, Swaha and her husband Agni lead peaceful lives ensuring the smooth operation of Heaven. That is, until an accidental explosion in the Underworld brings the Demon Queen Raka to Heaven. There, she confronts Agni’s twin, King Indra, and accuses him of sending spies to cause the tragedy. When King Indra refuses to help the survivors, Swaha’s anger drives her to help Queen Raka herself. However, King Indra’s spies are everywhere, and he doesn’t take kindly to a mere goddess lending aid to a perceived enemy of Heaven... In a story inspired by Hindu mythology, Swaha dares to take it upon herself to punish King Indra for his misdeeds. But is it worth it if she throws her life and the Heavens themselves into chaos?

The following content is intended for mature audiences and may contain sexual themes, gore, violence and/or strong language. Discretion is advised. Yuko and Mika have been going out for a year now, but Mika seems to be too absorbed in watching ants dig than to pay Yuko any attention.