In order to protect his country from the might of Russia, the King of Vultarnia appeals to Queen Victoria to find him an English wife.

Marla Stanford returned to Quebec to face the man she's loved once and rejected forever -- Brent Stevens. Now, still bitter, Brent exacts a cruel revenge. To save her family business, Marla must marry him. — Mocking, proud, and utterly sure of himself, Brent controls Marla's life as ruthlessly as he controls her business. But in the crystal magic of Winter Carnival, embers of the longing they'd shared spark into renewed passion -- and Marla's cold contempt melts into fiery love.

It was just like a scene from a soap opera: stunning woman meets handsome doctor, falls in love and...But to Katherine Mallory it was all too real. Needing a vacation from her famous role as the bed-hopping bad girl of TV's most popular soap, Katherine returned to her old home town. And there was Joe Mercer, the carefree hell-raiser turned town doctor who'd once stolen her heart. Before long Katherine was back in Joe's arms, caught up by passionate longings neither could resist. Could Katherine give up her glamorous work to become a country doctor's wife...and if not, could she bear the heartache of losing him again?

Paula Blake realized, when first she saw her new employer, Ramon Calzada Gonzalez, that she may have been hasty leaving England to accept a job in Puerto Rico as his secretary. Worse than arrogant, Ramon seemed the rake, and a man consumed with hatred for all women. Paula wondered if even her own devotion could put this virile and very affluent lawyer at peace. In a sudden whirl of passion, Ramon asked Paula to be his bride. In days, the marriage was joyously consummated. Only afterward did Paula discover that she had been used as a pawn in his cruel game of revenge!

For Bianca, princess of the Principality of Glanzberg, the discussion of marriage is very sudden. Not to mention, it’s an arranged marriage with the neighboring kingdom’s prince, Theodor. But while Bianca has had feelings for Theodor ever since they were little, when she finds out he does not want to part in a loveless marriage, she suggests they enter into a fake engagement. Will the honeymoon start while these two are still playing hide-and-seek with their feelings…?

**If you want to save your hotel and that diamond, become mine** Josie lives in New York, but in order to save the failing Sinclair Hotel, she travels to the Kingdom of Afrir with the blue diamond necklace in tow. There, she’s constantly pressured by Sheikh Rasheed to give up the blue diamond in return for his financial support. On top of which, he steals a kiss from her...! Will love prevail a third time in this saga spanning three hundred years?