[taken from fictiondb] When Skye O'Hara's life is rocked by tragedy, she's reunited with Falkner Harrington--her father's enigmatic business partner. Needing some time to consider her future, Skye has no other option but to accept when Falkner offers her the sanctuary of his home. But as the tension and chemistry sizzle between them, living with the dark-hearted tycoon becomes a real challenge! Especially when Falkner makes a demand in return for his hospitality--his new housemate must become his very convenient wife!

Mio, a girl who lost her parents in the Yodo River flood in Osaka, was left alone for the rest of her life. Although she is confused by the difference in taste between Kamigata and Edo, she grows step by step as a chef.

The story deals with a Chernobyl-type nuclear disaster happening on German soil. The main character is a fourteen-year-old girl who flees the contaminating cloud of radiation and experiences the ensuing breakdown of social order. The story begins at school where Janna-Berta and the other students and teachers are alarmed of a nuclear accident in the vicinity. She returns home. Her younger brother Uli is alone because the parents are away and the grandparents on vacation. Together, they flee by bicycle, because all the neighbours have already left. They meet chaos on the roads. Uli collapses with his bicycle and is run over by a car and killed. Janna-Berta, in shock, is taken to the station in Bad Hersfeld. She wants to return to her brother to bury him, is contaminated by radiation, and collapses. She wakes up in a provisional hospital in Herleshausen, where she witnesses the hardships of others. She learns of the extent of the disaster from television and a nurse. Her hair falls out. She makes a friend, Ayse, who later dies from radiation poisoning. Her aunt from Hamburg finds her and tells her that her parents and youngest brother, who had been with them, are dead. The news was intended to be kept secret. Janna-Berta stays with an aunt, who is not responsive to the girl's needs and wants to return to normality as soon as possible. She moves to another aunt, Almut, who shows solidarity with the victims. When her hometown is no longer banned, she returns. On the way, she finds her brother's body and buries it. She also finds her grandparents at home. They have just returned from their vacation and cannot believe what has happened until she tells them the shocking truth.

A class-defying romance with the desert prince... Rain was abandoned at birth, but now an adult, runs her own business redesigning old dresses into new fashion. One day, she receives a request from a desert prince named Sheikh Zaeed to remake a dress for his sister's wedding. After telling her that "Price is no object,” he whisks her away to his fabulous desert palace. However, after a run-in with the authorities she finds herself a prisoner in the palace! Although she can't stand how arrogant the Sheikh acts to her, she sees within his jet-black eyes a glimmer of hidden loneliness, and is inexplicably drawn in to him...