-[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.
Lazzaro, an owner of a luxurious hotel chain and blessed with the good looks of a Greek statue, and Caitlyn, still a naive work-experience student, once exchanged words momentarily—in the night without even kissing. Two years later, they reunite as employer and employee. Although destiny tries to keep them apart, Lazzaro fights it. He asks Caitlyn to stay on as his personal assistant—without knowing that she was deeply involved with the incident leading to his brother's death.
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?
Pairing: Illumi x Killua From [Hunter X Hunter Doujinshi](https://www.mangaupdates.com/groups.html?id=729): Why does Illumi suddenly want to feed Killua sweets...?
Florist Katie Pritchard is a shy, unassuming woman. Katie mostly keeps to herself, but she has one guilty pleasure—watching local celebrity and former athlete Dylan McKinnon. The glamorous athlete turned tycoon…a shy florist—Katie knows they live in different worlds, yet she can’t take her eyes off him. But Dylan has noticed Katie, too. Can he convince her to give him a try?
