"We regret ever getting married!" Mom and dad are acting like they hate each other, but those two can't hide their love! Mom and dad got married at a young age. That's why I, too, want to marry my beloved boyfriend right away, but they're strongly against it?! "Marrying young was a youthful indiscretion," they say, and the fighting begins. No! I don't want to see you two fight like this! I start to cry, but what's this? They're acting all lovey-dovey when I'm not looking? Hm... they're clearly trying to make me give up on marriage! I'll expose their sappy love for each other and make them acknowledge my relationship! (Source: Coolmic)
Musica Nostra is a collaborative work where various mangaka draw and/ or write about music and bands that inspire them, published in the Grand Jump. It includes Urasawa's musings about guitarists and playing guitar; his traveling to Sunset Sound in Los Angeles to record a song with Mike Viola and Jim Keltner, the latter of which sends a picture of Urasawa's The Beatles manga to Ringo Starr, and why their performance is credited to "Monaka"; Urasawa seeing Neil Young and Paul McCartney perform at Desert Trip; his meeting with Jack Oliver and depicting how the English record executive started working at Apple Records. *Note: this manga includes written chapters and drawn chapters, and never got a total volume release. This entry includes only the manga chapters.*
Kelsey shared a kiss with Marshall that she’ll never forget. Four years later, they are coincidentally reunited and, due to a misunderstanding, they end up pretending to be engaged. Kelsey wants to tell people it’s not true, that there is nothing between them, but things keep barreling forward. Marshall seems to be enjoying their charade, until one day Kelsey blurts something out that causes Marshall’s expression to change. What did she say that was so wrong? (Source: Harlequin)
Georgia "Georgie" Bennet has come to the Great Barrier Reef to revitalize her family's resort after her aunt's death. With her dear uncle not in the best of health, Georgie has to shoulder the responsibility of modernizing the place while keeping her aunt's "home away from home" spirit alive for travelers. Link Robards might be her greatest ally in revitalizing it, but does he hold sinister intentions about owning it...or owning her?
When a Plain Jane... Efficient, witty and prim Miranda Fairchild has always blended into the background – her two beautiful sisters have seen to that! But that hasn’t stopped Miranda secretly dreaming of finding her fairy-tale prince... ...is hired by a charming playboy... Dangerously charismatic, celebrity Rafe Knighton does not fit the bill. So when Miranda is hired as his assistant, she’s shocked to learn that Rafe has hidden depths. ...can there be a Happy Ever After? And there’s more to Miranda than meets the eye – as Rafe knows all too well! Will he give this stubborn Cinderella the diamond ring she deserves?
Christina's content with her life running a flower shop and coaching girls' soccer, but when Rafael Rocchi offers her a lift to a mutual friend's wedding, she soon realizes that she's fallen in love with a man who has no interest in such things. Rafael would be better suited to a tall, thin, glamorous woman, not her. When Rafael proposes marriage, is it true love, or has he just found a suitable bride who won't cause him any trouble?
Tabitha's a dancer, and her best friend an artist. When he asks her to pretend to be his date at a relative's high-class wedding, she can't help but remember her grandmother's gambling debts-that is, until she meets Aiden's brother, Zavier, who sweeps her off her feet. What was once a cold gaze soon turns warm and full of passion for her, or so she believes. Zavier's just testing her! "You don't love my brother. You're just in this for the money."
After Leonie's husband, Crown Prince Badyr, was imprisoned, she was forced to flee Dhoman. But it's been five years since the coup d'etat and still Leonie has had no word from him. She resigns herself to the fact that their love is over and focuses on working and raising their daughter, Jade. Leonie has kept the fact that she had a child secret-she fears Badyr would take her daughter away if he knew. And when her husband suddenly reappears, her fears become all too real...
Julie’s a lounge singer who’s just been invited to sing at one of the top clubs in Rome. Which also happens to be the hometown of her former lover, Rico. The two had been passionately in love when his grandfather forced them apart. Now Rico has no idea that the son he conceived with her back then will be turning seven years old. And she has no idea that she’ll be seeing Rico again on this trip to Rome! Their eight-year separation has changed Rico into a cold and heartless man, and he gives Julie a chilling surprise: he called her to Rome for no other reason than revenge!
After being falsely accused of crimes her backstabbing lover committed, Rose can no longer trust men. Even when her best friend's brother, Leo, shows up, she is quick to turn him down. Leo comes from a prominent family of lawyers, and Leo is determined to make it as a lawyer himself. Rose, on the other hand, owns a secondhand clothing store and prefers a lifestyle that is far from the ordinary. Leo’s charms aside, there should be no chance of the two hitting it off. So why is it that each time they come into contact, they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other?
When Lydie was a teenager, she fell prey to her step-cousin Marius’s treacherous charm. After he had his way with her, he tossed her aside like a toy he’d lost interest in playing with. But she clung to the hope that he loved her and foolishly waiting for him to return. When a scandal broke out, revealing that Marius had impregnated another woman, Lydie finally found the resolve to erase him from her heart. Five years later Marius randomly shows up at her art gallery, and in a heartbeat she finds herself drowning in all those feelings she’d thought were long gone.
Judith is a single mother caring for her disabled son. One day, when she’s already jobless and nearly broke, her son gets injured. Unsure of what to do next, she pays a visit to Dr. Hugh, an osteopathic, who is much younger and handsomer than she imagined. Revealing her pitiful situation to such a perfect person is deathly embarrassing for her. However…his response to her desperate request to treat her son, despite her inability to pay, is the exact opposite of what she expects. Not only does he accept, but he hires her as his receptionist, as well! Judith is thrilled about her fortune. But little does she know, it is the beginning of another kind of misfortune…