[taken from fictiondb] Awakened by strange and primitive mating music emanating from the apartment below, Brooke Livingstone suddenly believes all the tall tales she's heard about her neighbor, Dr. Archimedes Xavier "Meade" O'Malley. Only one electric meeting with him confirms them: he's intelligent, eccentric, charming and gorgeous. And, he'd like to get to know Brooke a lot better. Meade's also an expert in mystical magic, which is fortunate for him. Because it's going to take something more than shared interests and breathtaking passion to capture Brooke's disillusioned heart. Painful secrets and shattered dreams still fresh, only Meade can show Brooke that time heals all wounds--that true love is simply magic.

Their year-long debate-by-mail was hardly an auspicious beginning: He called her a "raving reincarnation of Susan B. Anthony"; she dubbed him "arrogant, obnoxious, and overbearingly macho." Yet when Shakespeare scholar Torie Clavel finally meets her rival expert, British theatrical director Nick Forsythe, their caustic wit is consumed by quicksilver desire. In London, Nick turns Torie's tea for two with another scholar into a party for three, then literally stages an elaborate seduction scene-then tries to direct her life as well! But Torie, fully versed in domineering men, refuses to take her cues from Nick, despite his determination to have her...in every sense of the word.

[taken from fictiondb] Feisty Paralegal Laura Dawn Newton is furious when she learns her mother's been arrested--for disturbing the peace--and the man who hails her out is none other than Kenyon C. Sutton, a perfectly gorgeous do-gooder lawyer from an old-money Boston elan. Known as Casey the Crusader, this rebel rich boy's determined to make Laura his next noble cause--until lie discovers her firm's in league with the elder Simons, on the wrong side of a real estate suit destined to destroy one of the city's most historic neighborhoods. Can Laura find the loophole that will let Casey's crusade succeed--before it's too late to lay claim to her heart?

After her brother and his wife passed away, Brynne worked so hard to take care of her orphaned little nephew, Michael. When a Spanish millionaire, Alejandro, suddenly shows up, arrogantly claiming custody as Michael’s real father, Michael is taken away from Brynne. Even though Brynne can’t forgive Alejandro, she chooses to stay in his mansion as Michael’s companion. Even though Alejandro is the scoundrel who dumped her sister-in-law, Brynne can’t help but feel his magnetism. Will she be able to do what’s best for Michael and still protect her heart and her innocence? Can Alejandro be the man Michael and Brynne need him to be?

Lily came to Rome at her brother’s invitation. She was escorted from the airport to the palace, but her brother wasn’t there. Instead she found the beautiful Count Dmitri Scarletti, the stuff of classical Greek sculpture! With cold eyes, he looked at Lily and told her that his sister and her brother had eloped. What’s more, he plans to hold her at the palace until her brother brings his sister back to him. All of the servants are on vacation, and Lily is alone in this huge palace with the dangerous Dmitri…

They've started off on the wrong foot, but fate might bring them together yet... His father, whom Rogan hasn't seen in more than a decade, has passed away, so he returns to his family home in Cornwall for the first time in a long while. Completely unaware that a beautiful woman would be there when he arrived, Rogan assumes she's his father's lover. But college professor Elizabeth is only there to catalog Rogan's father's library. In fact, she's just begun. Not only has her employer passed away, but now his son has shown up and made outrageous assumptions about her! She'd have liked to continue her work but decides it's best to call it quits. Elizabeth doesn't think for a moment that she could fall for Rogan, no matter how wildly sexy he might be!

Can a multimillionaire and a waitress fall in love? Cynthia is a country girl from England visiting a childhood friend in New York. Even though she attends parties along with famous celebrities, she hasn't been influenced by their behavior or their way of thinking. At one of these parties she takes a break on the balcony, where she runs into a silver-eyed, handsome man. Initially awkward, they eventually become comfortable talking to each other. He finds Cynthia's personality refreshing. Little does she know that this stranger is the world-famous Lucian Steele! Although they live in completely different worlds, fate has brought them together. Are wedding bells in their future?

Oh, no! Juliette gets trapped in a malfunctioning employee elevator. The claustrophobic saleswoman panics, but a fellow passenger collects her in his strong arms and steals a kiss from her. This handsome man had kissed her to distract her and calm her down. Eventually, the two are saved, and that's when Juliette realizes Rob is the owner of the department store, and he's completely out of her league!

Society gossip has kept Lady Juliet Boyd out of the public eye since the suspicious death of her husband. Although she's been persuaded to accept an invitation to a summer house party, all she really wants is a quiet life, free from the attentions of any man. But there she meets the scandalous Sebastian St. Claire, who makes her feel things, want things, need things she's never experienced before. Starved of affection, Juliet finds his lovemaking irresistible. But does he really want her—or just the truth behind her disgrace?

Daughter of a billionaire, Nina has spent a sheltered life with 24-hour security almost all her life because of the incident in which her mother was kidnapped and died… She loves her overprotective father but questions her life without freedom. One day, Nina's father decides to show his jewelry collection at the gallery Archangel, where Nina meets Rafe, the owner of the gallery. Seduced by his passionate gaze, Nina realizes her inner wish to be taken away from her cage...!