It was at her mother's wedding that Devon met the rude, arrogant and irritatingly sexy Jared Holt. Powerless to ignore his sizzling charisma, within a few hours Devon was sharing a reckless night with him.... Sleeping with a stranger wasn't something Devon had ever done before. But within weeks came the consequences of her whirlwind affair -- a hasty marriage based on lust, all for the sake of their unborn baby.... Wedlocked! [Taken from FictionDB]

Summoned like a serving girl to the king, Laura Cambridge was hired as nanny to Richard Blackthorne's secret child. Rumors about this hulking recluse didn't daunt Laura -- her beauty-queen past had taught her the inner person didn't always match the facade. But Richard's heart was as painfully scarred as his chiseled features.... To Richard, lovely Laura was like candy dangled in front of a baby -- he was offered the sweet, but denied the taste. Yet sometimes grizzly bears enjoyed a taste of honey...and in fiction the disfigured Mr. Rochester won the love of Jane Eyre. So Richard dared to woo his green-eyed goddess, gambling that -- like Jane -- Laura would one day declare, "Reader, I married him." [Taken from FictionDB]

Half-Breed. Wolfe Longwalker: Proud of his heritage, he used words--as a writer--to battle the white man. His enemies used a more basic method: they were about to hang Wolfe for a crime he didn't commit. So when Noel Giraudeau, a modern-day princess, found herself in 1896 Arizona, what else could she do except rescue Wolfe? But he was a man who didn't trust anyone, least of all a woman. On the run from the law, their passionate adventure quickly turned into something much more real ...but Noel's destiny was back in her own time and Wolfe's was in his.... Rogues: Dangerous to love, impossible to resist! [Taken from FictionDB]

Was inspired by a Japanese dating sim series by Cocktail Soft (a part of F&C, later F&C FC02). The games are all set around restaurants in the fictional "Pia Carrot" chain, and most of the female characters are waitresses at these restaurants. The individual restaurants in the chain are called "1st", "2nd", etc.