Best friends Testu and Shige share a love of baseball and Tetsu’s cousin Mikako, but with thoughts of graduation looming on the horizon and the news that Mikako might be moving away, it seems those aren’t the feelings they have in common. Colored with summery whimsy and nostalgia, this collection of stories from Konno Kita paints the honest difficulties and rewards of friendship and young, confused, brotherly love. All with mysterious powers at work… (Source: DMG)

Elissa and Helen are determined to have their vengeance after their sister Lucy is betrayed by her fiancee. They decide that their stepbrother Jack should pretend to be Lucy's new fiancee, and make her former lover jealous. Even though they are not blood-related, Lucy cannot imagine Jack being her lover. Her sisters try to persuade the hesitant Lucy by telling her, "you are destined to be with Jack". This is true, if one believed the legend of the "Mansion of Love". Lucy finally starts to see Jack, not as her brother, but as a man...

Today is Dilly's wedding. The preparations were all steadily underway when she discovers a shocking truth from a conversation between the groom and her father. He proposed to her because he had his eye on some reward? It was all a plan devised by her father because he was worried about his thirty-year-old, single daughter. Thoroughly humiliated, Dilly runs up the aisle and out of the church still clad in her wedding dress. She jumps into the white limousine that was supposed to be used for her honeymoon and instructs the handsome chauffeur to drive away. Dilly just isn't meant to fall in love. She'll never be able to get married. While staring in astonishment at Dilly's angry antics, chauffeur Mick is roped into playing the part of her groom...? (Source: Renta!)

Jack's wife, Cassandra, is standing in front of him, but he just married another woman that very day! Cassandra was declared dead after she went missing while on a research expedition into the remote Amazon three years ago. Heartbroken, Jack quit his job as a professor and started a new job. Today he married his new boss's daughter. Faced with his first wife, Jack doesn't know what to expect, but he's completely blindsided when she introduces herself as his younger sister and ends up staying in the newlyweds' home. Now there are two wives in the house, and Jack must figure out how to be the right husband! (Source: Renta!)

Jewelry designer Tamara once again finds herself face-to-face with the Earl of Melton at a party. He's the CEO of a hugely successful company, with a strong build and masculine features, not to mention her father's choice to be her husband! With the confidence of a conquering hero, once again he asks for her hand in marriage. Although she refuses him right away, in order to save the business she has worked so hard to start, eventually she agrees. They hatch a plan to become husband and wife for half a year, each pursuing their own business goals-him, a successful merger with her father's company, her, a steady list of clientele-but can Tamara resist his passionate act? (Source: Renta!)

What kind of a trap has this man set for Sophie? Sophie is an actress whose best friend, Jasper, wants her to pretend to be his girlfriend to hide the fact he’s gay. So, wearing a provocative outfit, she hurriedly hops on the train to get to Jasper’s father’s birthday. The attractive, sophisticated man sitting in front of her on the strain gives her a look of blatant contempt. The two happen to get off at the same station and, it turns out, are heading to the same destination. He’s Jasper’s brother! Believing that Sophie is only with his brother for his money and title, he decides to set a trap to reveal her true motive! (Source: Harlequin)

After her cousin elopes, Elizabeth is chosen to take her place as a bride for Lord Raymond. Elizabeth lived miserably in a convent for the last thirteen years, and she feels marriage will be her chance to finally have a happy family. Though Raymond frightens her at times, with his cold and cruel eyes, Elizabeth begins to see glimpses of his sincerity and kindness, and she settles into life with him. Until she hears a rumor in the castle that Raymond's previous wife was killed…by him! (Source: Renta!)

The year is 2307 A.D. Although fossil fuels have been depleted, humanity has obtained a new source of energy to replace them in the form of a large-scale solar power generation system based on three huge orbital elevators. However, the benefits of this system are available only to a handful of major powers and their allies. The three orbital elevators belong to three superpower blocs. These are the Union, led by the United States of America; the Human Reform League, led by China, Russia, and India; and the AEU, led by Europe. These superpower blocs continue to play a grand zero-sum game for the sake of their own prestige and prosperity. In this world of never-ending conflict, a private armed organization appears, dedicated to the elimination of war through armed force. Its name is Celestial Being, and it is in possession of "Gundam" mobile suits. With these Gundams, it begins armed intervention into all acts of war. Source: TRSI

Late 19th Century, Tokyo. Namiko, born as the daughter of an army lieutenant, loses her mother, and finds herself suffering at the hands of her new stepmother. Soon, her kindly aunt introduces her to Navy General Takeo Kawashima. Now Namiko lives happily ever after, or so she thought... (Source: Beaglee Inc.)

On a lonely afternoon, a young boy is drawn to a small church by the lure of an angelic voice. Determined to find its source, he sneaks in only to realize the singing is coming from a beautiful boy his age. Enraptured by the music and his discovery, embarrassed and confused, he flees. By a curious arrangement with fate, they happen to meet again their first day of middle school. As their meetings continue, will they be able to recognize the force that draws them together for what it is? Salva Me contains a collection of stories carefully crafted with the high and lowlights of life and feeling. From the haunting pain of unrequited romance to the baffled concern of a prodigal father for his cross-dressing son, Konno Kita captures the realities of raw emotion with her unique brand of whimsy. (Source: DMG)

from fictiondb: Things change. Coming home isn't easy for Dylan Donovan. He left 13 years ago, carrying a terrible secret about his father, and he can't believe what's happened since. His widowed mother is now a savvy entrepreneur, his family home has been turned into student housing and his brothers seem to think his well-meant advice is just bossy interference. And then there's Maddie Lamont -- Dylan doesn't know what to think about her. People change. Maddie's grown up a lot since the summer she spent with the Donovans. The braces, thick glasses, and boyish figure have all been replaced, and Dylan's man enough to appreciate the transformation. What he doesn't appreciate is the influence Maddie seems to have on his family -- particularly his mother. But like it or not, he has to get along with Maddie and remember that change is good. At least, that's what he keeps telling himself....

The newly appointed teacher of an all-girls school, Hiro Yamashita reunites with his sister-in-law Kumiko, after several years. One day after school she invites him to a tennis rally for the first time in a while, which leads to gradual and shocking changes in their relationship… A heartwarming love story with a unique cast of girls.