When Ellena’s carefree sister, Justine, and her lover, Kit, go missing after an avalanche, Ellena takes care of their child. Until she gets tangled up in a custody battle with Kit’s brother Gideon, who threatens her right to raise the baby. So she agrees to go through with a fake marriage to Gideon, who is as determined to raise the baby as she is. By marrying, they can make themselves more attractive candidates for adopting the baby. But in order not to raise any suspicions, they have to maintain a minimum level of intimacy, and Ellena finds herself unexpectedly falling for this incredibly gorgeous man!

Mary is attending a party for business reasons, but she’s not at all accustomed to wearing high heels—as she’s about to fall, Tyler Watts, the CEO of the company throwing the party, comes to her rescue. As a former employee of his company, Mary is well aware of his arrogance, but while talking to him, she’s surprised by his charisma and abilty to win people over. And he really must be charming since when he tells Mary he wants to get married, she says yes without thinking. But she’s mortified when she realizes her mistake: he doesn’t want to marry her—he wants her to be his relationship coach!

When Lucy, the heiress of the wealthy Carey family, loses her antique ring, the only memento of her late mother, her spirits sink. But one day, at an extravagant charity function, she spots it…on the finger of Carol, a beautiful woman she’s never seen before! Carol’s the date of a man named Jud. When Lucy finds Jud and tells him the ring is all she has left of her mother, he makes a shocking offer. He’ll give her the ring…but only by slipping it on her left ring finger and making her his fiancée! The Careys are aristocrats in name only, and Lucy has mere pennies to her name, so she has no choice but to accept his proposal.

Rosalind is forced by circumstances to pretend to be married to her old flame Michael, moving into his great-grandmother’s country home along with her little brother. Once, she and Michael, who is now an archaeologist, shared an extraordinary passion, falling in love at first sight. But when Rosalind rejected his proposal, they quickly separated. She had no choice at the time, but can he ever forgive her for rejecting him?

He thought no man was safe from her. On Kacie Peter's first day of work her new boss had the nerve to insinuate she had a less than respectable reputation with men. Worse, he ordered her not to make a play for him -- he had no intention of changing his bachelor status! Kacie had been ready to quit on the spot. But something in Elliot Quantrell's steely gray eyes, his aura of energy, drew her to him -- made her want his approval. But how could she make him like her without confirming his worst suspicions?

He took advantage of her sensitivity At first, Arden couldn't unravel the mystery surrounding the overbearing Blane Hunter. His tormented dreams fed her suspicions that he was running from something, and his abusive language revealed a deep-seated mistrust for anyone foolish enough to try to help him. Then he whisked her off into the Welsh mountains, where Arden soon lamented her folly. She had fallen in love with a man obsessed by memories of his ex-wife--tormented by his part in her death. Blane, it seemed, was capable of almost anything ...anything except what Arden truly needed from him--his love.