After years of silence, evidence has surfaced of government experiments in genetic manipulation. The media has even speculated that these experiments were successful and that the extraordinary children could be anywhere...and anyone. Wild rumors are circling the globe, and at the epicenter is Greenlaurel, Texas. The matriarchs of this affluent town want to allay the fears of Greenlaurel's residents and put to rest the dangerous questions being asked about adopted members of their community. The Bluebonnet Ball seems like just the event to divert the town and calm their anxieties...or so they think. [Taken from FictionDB]

[Taken from FictionDB:] Courtship of convenience. They were neighbors. Friends. Acquaintances, actually. And about all shy, intense Lydia McKinley and smooth, ambitious Scott Pearson had in common was zero tolerance for romance -- and two matchmaking sisters bombarding them with blind dates. Still, why not join forces to outmaneuver their siblings? The strategy? Don protective camouflage. Pose as sweethearts at social occasions. A hug here, a kiss there, and they'd barricade themselves against a barrage of misguided matchmaking. But who knew their casual contact would trigger such explosive embraces? That their convenient courtship would plunge them headlong into a minefield of most inconvenient desire?

**Is there any hope of a future together?** On the eve of her wedding, well-to-do Jerusa wanders into the garden and meets a man named Michel. She is drawn to his angelic smile, but Michel has come to enact revenge on her father, his oldest enemy! Jerusa learns of his intentions after Michel kidnaps her. She should hate him—so why is she so drawn to him?

“As long as she’s happy, I don’t care what happens to me!” So swore Jennifer when she gave birth to her daughter at the age of sixteen. Unable to support the child herself, she had to give her away. Twelve years later, she hasn’t heard a word about her daughter and Jennifer has become a successful car dealership manager. She is intent on her work when a charming man named Brian appears. He is looking for the birth mother of his twelve-year-old niece, who just lost her foster family to a terrible tornado.… Will Jennifer reunite with her daughter? [Taken from Romance Comics]

STARTING WITH A KISS [Taken from FictionDB:] 'How can I ever hope to attract the man of my dreams when he has never looked at me that way?' Abigail Trent had never intended to be 30 and still single. So when her colleague Dr. Greg Hastings offered to help her transform from prim-and-proper physician to irresistible temptress, Abigail couldn't refuse. But she never expected that with just one kiss, Greg would make her feel so desirable and special. For the first time in Abigail's life, she was keenly aware of the sensations and longings a man's touch could evoke. Suddenly, she began to hope that what had started out as a Cinderella-esque fantasy could turn into something much more...that maybe Greg was the Prince Charming she'd been waiting for all her life to give her innocence, and her heart. [English publication via Renta!](https://www.ebookrenta.com/renta/sc/frm/item/59016/)

[taken from fictiondb] Gina Foster was the perfect answer to Clay McCormick's inheritance woes, but her sincere "I do" raised a whopper of a new quandary. When the Alaskan night turns 20 hours long, how does a newlywed husband possibly resist his very convenient, much younger wife? Answer: he can't. So inevitably, the handsome Northman swept the willing virgin into his strong arms -- and to their marriage bed. But now passion's floodgates were wide open and Clay had to halt the free flow of emotion before he was a lost man...a married man...her forever man!

from fictiondb: Maggie Conner might not have had much experience with men -- okay, so she'd had absolutely no experience with men -- but that didn't mean she couldn't find love matches for her female clients. All she needed was the right man.... Trouble was, she'd found exactly the wrong man -- Nick Kaplan, a hard-muscled, love-'em-and-leave-'em type with a dangerously seductive smile. Not only was Nick pure temptation in a leather jacket, he was also Maggie's new roommate! So why not make him over into somebody else's perfect man? Well, for one thing, the more up-clos-eand-personal time they spent together, the more Maggie wanted to keep Nick all to herself....

Bethany was to marry William, her betrothed, on Christmas Day. But one day, William’s only son, Robin, comes home from London, and he praises her art. For Bethany, who was always in her beautiful sister's shadow, nothing brought her more happiness than her art. Now she feels a passion like nothing she’s ever felt before. Will Bethany find the right bachelor under her tree come Christmas morning?

[taken from fictiondb] Penelope believed in being practical. She needed a husband, so decided to investigate suitable candidates -- and propose! Stefano Salvatore was perfect, and their marriage would also combine their business assets. Surely Stefano would find such logic irresistible? But this passionate Italian believed in marrying for love, not meeting his bride for the first time as she walked into his office bearing matching wedding rings! He thought Penelope was crazy -- but adorable. In fact, he was beginning to take her proposition seriously!

Leonora Groom is an heiress in disguise, desperate to be loved for herself and not for her father's money. Yet she finds her cool facade cracking as the irresistible Amer el-Barbary woos her under the velvet Nile sky. Bored with dating shallow women, Amer sees Leonora as a tempting breath of fresh air. But how will Leonora react when he reveals that he is a sheikh, a true prince of the desert, who wants her for his bride?

from fictiondb: Mix one aspiring chef, Maddie, with Joe, an expert at producing romantic dinners for two. Ensure student is more interested in learning about gorgeous teacher than about dinner. Simmer! [English version via Renta!](https://www.ebookrenta.com/renta/sc/frm/item/77221/)

When beautiful Princess Isabella of San Rimini needed an expert to catalogue the artifacts stored in the royal palace, all roads led directly to dark, mysterious Nick Black—a contemporary example of potent masculinity if ever there was one. Yet thanks to a medieval curse, Nick Black had been around for a long time...a very long time. In fact, once he'd been known as Domenico of Bollazio, an ambitious knight who would never know peace—or mortality—until he learned to put someone else's welfare before his own. In taking this assignment, Nick hoped to find an ancient trick to break his curse. Little did he know that close contact her lovely highness, Isabella, might help him to find mortality—and love—the old-fashioned way!