Leaving her Kentucky home, Martha travels to Las Vegas to audition as assistant to her hero Gai Jones, the magician of fire. There, she discovers that things are not going well for Gai...and that he is an arrogant sore loser. Can she save her hero, and pull off this magic trick? Source: Harlequin

From Fictiondb: When free-lance reporter Charley Channing literally runs into a stranger on the back stairs of a hotel, she's more shaken by his devastating masculinity than by the collision! Newspaper columnist James MacNamara's equally smitten, so he claims his ankle's injured and makes Charley stand in for a crutch. Then he "blackmails" her into working closely with him on investigating movie star Lola Lancaster's kidnapping. To Charley's surprise, she and MacNamara make the perfect sleuthing team. He wants to be partners in love, too, hut Charley's afraid her free-spirited lifestyle and his conventional ways will clash. Can MacNamara vanquish her resistance ... and make romancing Charley last a lifetime?

Second-year student Yamato Nissei spends his days lazing around, unable to find anything he'd be interested in. Though he's on great terms with his friends, he isn't doing all that well otherwise, having just gotten fired from his new part-time job. He also takes part in the board game club just to sleep. But just as he’s thinking about how his youth is slipping away, he encounters a natural enemy a girl and his life takes a sudden turn for the unexpected.