"Make the man chase you. Just don't run so fast he can't catch you." This kind of love strategy is what Kerry's great-grandmother wrote about in the journal Kerry just received. Kerry decides to test it on Jake, the man she had an unrequited love for and was rejected by when she was a teenager. Even though she thought she'd gotten over him a long time ago, the unexpectedly positive results of her strategy are making her feelings resurface...

Flora Harris is a bookish nurse on a small island, but when a new doctor comes to her practice, the whole community is thrown into an uproar! Conner McNeil may be brusque on the outside, but it's thanks to years of being tempered by hatred and pain from his father. A rebel in his youth, Conner ravaged the town in his teenage years, only to come back as an experienced doctor. Can Flora help mend the community around this dashing rogue?

Cal Langtry is a business mogul, but it's thanks to his assistant Sabrina that he can keep his workplace running smoothly. However, after delivering one too many "parting gifts" to women he's broken up with, Sabrina questions him on his plans for the future. But before he can reassess his dating portfolio, he's surprised with a blast from the past: he has a daughter he never even knew about!

Oliver's a brilliant scientist, and to avoid any distractions from his work with glazes, he glazes over any prospect of love in his life-until Ivy storms into his lab, demanding that they get married! It's all a part of a scheme that'll reunite the loved ones in their lives, but will this fictitious elopementprove that the science of love is real?

He's frozen in his own little world, until a whirlwind goddess lands there... Playboy gallery owner Mitch Hanover dates a new blonde beauty each month. When he begins looking for an auctioneer to work an auction he's sponsoring, he's captivated by the woman who shows up late to her interview. A woman who arrives in her pink corvette, hair streaming... Mitch is accidentally attracted to Veronica's charming smile and quick wit. But he has a tragic past and has vowed never to love again...! (c)JUNKO TAMURA/ALLY BLAKE

Kirsty always felt that love brought nothing but misery, which is why she never wanted to let herself fall for anyone. That is, until she met the handsome doctor Jake Cameron. Even though it felt as if something was sparkling between them, neither let themselves act on their feelings. When Kirsty and her sister are put in a dangerous situation, Jake can no longer deny his emotions. But will Kirsty let herself accept Jake's love, as well as be honest about her own? (c)MASAMI HOSHINO/MARION LENNOX

Sara is hired to work on remodeling the interior of a castle, so she goes off to the Dukedom of Illyria. The Prince of Illyria, Gabe, was once Sara's fiance. But when the family treasure that Gabe lent to her went missing, he accused her of being the thief and canceled their engagement. Sara thought that there'd never be another chance for a mere interior designer like her to meet a prince, but Gabe is waiting for her in Illyria, and he hasn't forgotten a thing. He looks at her coldly and declares that she won't leave his castle until she returns the "stolen" necklace!

HIGH-POWERED, HOT-BLOODED Annie is a kindergarten teacher who gets the shock of her life when Duncan, the famous entrepreneur who all the newspapers have labeled "Meanest CEO in the Country," tells her that her little brother embezzled money from his company! He says that if he can't get his money back he's going to take her house and throw her brother in jail. Annie's in such deep shock that when he proposes an alternative that will forgive her of her debts, she takes him up on his offer. All she has to do is help him change his stone-cold image by pretending to be his girlfriend for the month leading up to Christmas. They both live in such completely different worlds, such a thing shouldn't even be possible...or so she thought!

THEIR CHRISTMAS WISH COME TRUE Thirty-nine days until Christmas... A man knocks on the door of the Secret Santa Association, where Kirsten works. Looking somewhat sad, with eyes filled with pain, he says he's there to help. But judging from his looks, he doesn't seem the type to volunteer. She sends him away, saying, "All we need is fifty children's jackets. There's nothing else you could do right now." And he returns with the jackets shortly after. Who is he? Did God send me a handsome and compassionate man? [English publication via Renta!](https://www.ebookrenta.com/renta/sc/frm/item/67081/)

2 in 1 **Mistress for Hire by Angela Devine** Lisa is posing for her artist roommate, Tim, when he leaves for some fresh air. In walks his uncle, the dashing and arrogant entrepreneur Matt Lansdon. Seeing her naked, he disapproves of her from the start... but then he accuses her of something far worse.. **The Cinderella Valentine by Liz Fielding** Polly can't believe the bad luck she has on her first day at her new waitressing job. The handsome Italian manager, Luc, keeps a close eye on her at work... but is there something more in his gaze?

The first time that secretary Jolene laid eyes on company president Cheyne Templeton, she could hardly speak. To think that this man was her boss – the same man that had disparaged her as a loose woman only that morning, and all because of a misunderstanding! But Cheyne doesn'’t have the earcare for excuses, and now that the two of them are on a business trip to Russia together, Jolene is going to have to find some way to change his mind about her...

THE SHEIKH'S LOVE-CHILD With butterflies fluttering in her stomach, Lucy Banks has arrived in the desert kingdom of Biryal--with a secret! Seeing Sheikh Khaled--the man who once loved and left her--in his sumptuous royal palace, Lucy is blown away by his barbaric magnificence: he's king of the desert and his eyes are blacker and harder than before. He's not the man she once knew. She wants to run away from his overwhelming masculinity, but they're inextricably bound forever...for he is the father of her son.