Collection of short stories: • *Migite ni Ai Hidarite ni Gekijou* • *Kiss wo Kawaita Kuchibiru ni*

Hansome opera singer Ryo is 35 and a virgin. He doesn't want to die still a virgin, so he plans to steal his first sexual encounter.

BIRD IN A GILDED CAGE Lynn couldn't marry without her guardian's permission--permission his stepson would never let him grant. So in a desperate bid to gain control of her fortune and her life she married that same stepson: Paul Loukas, the man who had once loved her. But his love lay seven years in the past .He gave her everything she could want, everything except the freedom she had always been denied. Would she learn too late that her only freedom lay in staying her husband's captive--and could she turn desire into love before it was too late? Source: FictionDB

based on novel "The Loving Touch" by Aimee Duvall [from fictiondb:] Cassie Prentis is eager to assume her new position as assistant veterinarian at the Albuquerque zoo...but totally unprepared for the stark sensuality of her boss, Paul Kelly. Her senses reeling with wild attraction, she inadvertenly sets off one comical mishap after another-to Paul's amusement and her red-faced dismay! Only when Paul finally holds her close does the universe stop spinning. But the memory of Paul's last love stands between them...and Cassie suffered before when a professional relationship became much more. Though Paul's ardor seems genuine...and Cassie trembles with desire...she struggles to hold her emotions in check, unable to turst the man whose loving touch she craves.