from fictiondb: THE BABY BARGAIN It was the perfect plan. Melanie Watters wanted a baby badly, so she proposed marriage to the most confirmed bachelor in town -- her best friend, Bailey Jenkins. In return for getting Melanie pregnant, frustrated pageant-judge Bailey could escape the clutches of the town's tiara-hungry single women. Surely their friendship could survive this marriage of convenience unscathed? They had agreed to divorce after Melanie became pregnant, but playing house with Bailey soon stirred deep passions in her, and things quickly got complicated. Melanie found herself torn between her desire for a child and her growing feelings for her husband. Would having the baby she'd dreamed of ruin their perfect marriage?

"Suizokukan" is a place where souls of people going to die would receive healing to their scars. Whose, who atone their sins and heal their souls are become exhibitions here, and whose who couldn't becomes food for first ones. Each chapter tells a story of one of such "exhibitions". *Suizokukan means aquarium museum. But here first kanji means "water" replaced for another one with same reading but means "decay".

Mio, a girl who lost her parents in the Yodo River flood in Osaka, was left alone for the rest of her life. Although she is confused by the difference in taste between Kamigata and Edo, she grows step by step as a chef.