-Lotte never forgot the organ performance by the "angel of music" Michael that she heard as a young girl, and one day she is reunited with him. But he says that he's never played the organ and claims to be a child of immigrants named Angelo. Lotte is confused but still drawn to him, but he soon disappears again. He reappears again when they're adults, this time as a prince of their country...!
When Scottish chieftain and sole shipwreck survivor George Grant awoke on the ice-crusted shore of a strange land, he knew his mission: return home in time to wed the dainty bride his king had chosen. But that was before he met his captor, a blue-eyed Viking hellion whose price for freedom was a temporary marriage--to her! Rika was as cold and hard as the hammered metal covering her wrists. Yet the blush of her cheeks belied her frosty facade. She needed the seasoned warrior to secure her bride price, for it would buy her brother's prison release and free her from an abusive fiance. How could she know that George's fiery passion would melt her frozen heart?
After her father died, Penelope retreated from polite society and buried herself in her books. But now her older brother wants to take even that away from her! As long as her brother is managing her inheritance, Penelope is bound by his wishes. So she decides to go out and find a husband who will let her do what she wants! Just as she leaves on her journey, a drunk man throws himself in front of her carriage. He seems to come from a good family, though, and he’s quite handsome… Penelope recognizes that this is her chance and talks him into marrying her…but she had no idea just who he is!
**This is the first time we’ve met…but why does he stir such strong feelings in my heart?** Ten years have passed since Kathryn’s fiancé, Dickon, was kidnapped by pirates… One day, she receives news that a slave rescued in Venice could be him. Kathryn rushes to Venice with Dickon’s father and aunt, but upon meeting Lorenzo Santorini, the merchant who rescued Dickon, she’s overcome by a powerful sensation. “This is the first time we’ve met…but why does he stir such strong feelings in my heart?” With her heart beating wildly in her chest, Kathryn finally meets the young man who is thought to be Dickon…but is it really him?
At eighteen, Bel got married to a viscount as old as her father and then became a widow a few short years later. Is she going to spend the rest of her life without knowing the joys of love? Can she really have what the ladies of society call a lover? As Bel’s sordid fantasies take hold, the door to her room suddenly swings open and in walks a burly blond man. He embraces her and pulls her into a kiss. What is going on? Could this be her first chance to play the game of love? Source: Harlequin
80In order to uncover the truth behind the death of her uncle, Lady Georgiana dresses up as a boy and heads to London. While chasing after one of the suspects, Viscount Fincham, she finds him being assaulted by strangers. In that moment, without thinking, Georgiana steps in to his rescue. The viscount, captivated by the beautiful eyes of the young boy who came to his rescue, soon realizes that Georgiana is actually a young woman from a commoner family. Unable to contain his curiosity, he gives her a proposition. "Would you work by my side as my personal aid?" (Source: Renta!)
The second and last part of the manga anthology created as part of a charity with royalties donated for the reconstruction of areas affected by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) disaster that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. *Note: The chapter count includes a prologue.*
Eliza works as a seamstress at a bridal shop. One day, a million-dollar wedding dress enters the shop, which she is fascinated by and tries on, but for some reason is unable to take off. In a panic, Eliza flees the shop, and gets in a limo that had just arrived at that moment. Inside, she meets a handsome man in a tuxedo. Even though he is on his way to his own wedding, Eliza asks him for help. As he reaches out to assist her, little did they know, that they were headed towards unforeseen danger... (Source: Renta!)
Country girl Henrietta has been abandoned quite suddenly by the man she thought of as her sweetheart. While grieving in the shadows during a London ball, she meets a man who is bewilderingly handsome. That man is Count Deben, and he has a reputation as a playboy. Perhaps he's grown bored of the girls who swarm to him like bees to nectar, but why would he be interested in her? Henrietta is surveying him cautiously when Count Deben directs a challenging gaze her way and declares that he will make her the brightest flower of high society. (Source: Renta!)
Cate, a single working mother raising her son, was astonished by the customer who appeared before her-the fifth baron of Wyndham, Julian Ashton Carlisle...her first love. His unforgettably beautiful blue eyes brought back all the memories of Cate's once-in-a-lifetime romance. But her inability to defy his mother, who'd opposed their relationship due to their different social statuses, caused their relationship to be short-lived. She couldn't believe that they were meeting again, and she feared he would find out about the son she had kept hidden from him... (Source: Renta!)
THE ANGEL AND THE PROFESSOR Gemma may not have been the prettiest girl in town, but she was something better—kind and conscientious, which made her a wonderful caregiver. To her patients she really was a gem of a girl! So when she unexpectedly found herself out of work, Ross, a distinguished professor, readily asked her to accompany him to Holland to look after his invalid sister. Gemma accepted—even though she knew Ross was never likely to see her as anything more than just his sister's nurse….
