-from fictiondb: The Eligible Prince: Travis Rule AKA The Richest Bachelor in Texas. The Unlikely Cinderella: Miss Cindy Ellerbee, Travis's sweet-natured new housekeeper. Was the Lone Star State's most eligible bachelor really thinking of proposing to his very own housekeeper? True, the millionaire has to marry before his birthday, and Cindy is the most adorable gal in sight. But Travis was a man of wealth and connection, and Cindy just keeps his mansion clean. Is this marriage to be one of convenience only, or did Travis have other -- loving -- motives for taking Cindy as his wife?
[taken from fictiondb] BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.... On her thirty-fourth birthday, Daisy Minor decides to make over her entire life. The small-town librarian has had it with her boring clothes, her ordinary looks, and nearly a decade without so much as a date. It's time to get a life - and a sex life. The perennial good girl, Daisy transforms herself into a party girl extraordinaire - dancing the night away at clubs, laughing and flirting with abandon - and she's declared open season for manhunting. But her free-spirited fun turns to shattering danger when she witnesses something she shouldn't - and becomes the target of a killer. Now, before she can meet the one man who can share her life, first she may need him to save it.
[taken from fictiondb] WHAT WOULD MAKE THE PERFECT MAN? That's the deliciously racy topic that Jaine Bright and her three girlfriends are pondering one night at their favorite after-hours of spot: Mr. Perfect. Would he be tall, dark, and handsome? Caring and warmhearted - or will just muscular do? As their conversation heats up, they concoct a tongue-in-cheek checklist that becomes an overnight sensation, spreading like wildfire at work and sizzling along e-mail lines. But what began as a joke among friends turns deadly serious when one of the four women is murdered....Turning to her neighbor, an unpredictable police detective, for help, Jaime must unmask a killer to save her friends - and herself. Now, knowing whom to trust and whom to love is a matter of survival - as the dream of Mr. Perfect becomes a chilling nightmare.
[taken from fictiondb] Cole Bishop had appeared in her hour of need and she'd done it--hired him ... a male housekeeper! Perhaps now, with her twin boys in his care, she could get back to her demanding career in advertising. In no time her chaotic household was running smoothly. The boys were in heaven. But Kelly Connors hadn't counted on Cole insinuating himself into her lire so personally . . so passionately. Nor was she prepared for her ex-husband's intrusion on their newfound domestic bliss, his vicious threats to take the children from her. And when the boys suddenly vanished, Kelly was terrified, torn. Had she asked too much, wanting her children, her career, her independence--and the man she loved? Could Cole--a journalist doing "undercover" research on house-husbanding --help her find both her boys and all the answers?
MARRY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE. And Valerie had plenty of time to repent--four long years. Her marriage to Sean Hunter had been deliriously happy until her desire to become a dancer had torn them apart. Her husband gone, Valerie lost her career as well when she bore Sean the son whose existence he never even suspected. Then Sean walked back into her life, and once he met Michael she knew he intended to have the boy--at any cost. How could she cope with a man who wanted her only for her son's sake a man who was only marking time until he could put another in her place? Source: fictiondb
[taken from fictiondb] IN FROM THE COLD... Tracey White had once been an actress, but in Scott Kingsly, her new employer, she found the first man ever to kindle in her the fires she had always shammed. Slowly they learned to trust, to share a passion and an intimacy she had dreamed of but had never found, creating between them a blaze strong enough to melt the Colorado snows and keep out the winter's chill.
Nineteen-year-old Mel and her three younger brothers are left with substantial debt after their father and stepmother die in a plane crash. Not long after the funeral, their stepmother’s younger brother, Etienne, who runs a shipping company, comes to their home. Mel holds a grudge against her stepmother for transforming their home into a luxury estate and running their family into debt, and that grudge extends to her stepmother’s relatives. However, Etienne imposes a startling ultimatum on Mel: she can do nothing and lose everything, including her brothers to foster care…or she can marry him!
After a fifteen-year absence, Maggie has returned to her hometown to raise her unborn child and support her elderly father. Unfortunately she has no choice but to look for work at her ex-husband’s thriving company. He’s as breathtakingly handsome as ever, but his eyes are full of bitterness. He must assume she’s after his money, but he has no idea that Maggie’s leaving him when they were young may be the reason he’s a success today! Second installment of Fugou Sankyoudai no Himitsu series.
Whitney has shut up her heart—her past has taught her to be wary of family entanglements. But after the death of Whitney’s best friend and her husband in a car accident, Whitney gains partial custody of the baby they left behind. The child’s other guardian is Darius, the baby’s elder brother by many years. Whitney will be raising the baby at Darius’s mansion, where she’ll have to put up with this handsome but arrogant CEO of a global shipping company. There she finds that, despite having abandoned the idea of love, she can’t help but be drawn to Darius’s gaze. Will her willful heart be her undoing? First installment of Fugou Sankyoudai no Himitsu series.