**Her longtime crush is suddenly interested in her, but she knows he’s an inveterate playboy…** Natalie is a secretary who has secretly fallen in love with her boss, Kane, an incredibly successful businessman. Kane, however, is a playboy who moves from model to model. There’s no way he’d ever look twice at Natalie…or so she thinks. Determined to forget about him, Natalie undergoes an astonishing transformation. She goes on a diet and starts dating other men, but none of it makes her feel better… Kane, on the other hand, is suddenly seeing her in a new light. Assuming that she’s gotten a new boyfriend, he starts meddling in her private life. He invites Natalie over to his house for business, but things between them are about to get quite steamy!

Mina is stunned when she sees a multimillionaire backer at her company's charity benefit. It's none other than her former boss Cesare! Mina was his secretary four years ago. She worked hard to gain his approval and do her job well... but she found herself attracted to him and they ended up spending a night together. That night was like a dream for her, but the next morning she woke up alone. Several days later, she received an abrupt letter saying that she was fired! Cesare disappeared from her life for several years and Mina moved on, but now he's back... Oblivious to the pain he caused her, Cesare calls her a con artist and accuses her of stealing money from the company!

Lured by a sweetly beautiful piano melody, Prince Shahir meets a beautiful lady. But, once the figure at the piano notices him, she runs out as if trying to escape from him... “Just who was that woman in my castle?” He finds the answer soon. Her name is Kirsten, and she is one of the castle custodians. He is the crown prince of a kingdom, and has no intention of something as foolish as laying a hand on an employee. However, he can't believe a woman so beautiful is a custodian... Could there be some sort of reason? And the prince playfully gets close to Kirsten?! (Source: Harlequin)

Sussex, England. At the beginning of the 19th century, a bride marches into her wedding with a gun in hand, ready to kill her groom. What has led to Alexandra Rawdon drawing arms against her future husband, Lord Richard Anthony Deverell? She agrees to an ultimatum: Anthony has six months to prove that he did not kill her father. If he can't, she can end things. To what lengths will Anthony go to prove to his wife that he's not her father's murderer? (Source: Renta!)

Gwenna watches as her father is arrested for embezzlement! He had taken her in, even though she was the daughter of his mistress, so she wanted to help him... So with no other thought in mind, she goes to see the man in charge of the company pressing the charges. The man she confronts is the same man she happened to have met the other day—and she would never admit it, but he had set her heart aflame. This man, Angelo, offers to drop the charges on one startling condition: “You will be my mistress.” She had grown up watching her mother suffer as a mistress. Will she be doomed to the same fate? (Source: Harlequin)

Collection of cute and sweet short stories for all to enjoy.

A CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL Even though she's the daughter of a prestigious family, Bertha is cruelly oppressed by her stepmother and stepsister. At her own birthday party, she finds herself despondent, wearing an awful dress and standing alone against the wall. In complete contrast to the way the guests fawn over her beautiful stepsister, no one goes near Bertha. But then, one young doctor, Oliver, calls out to her. "Why are you so sad?" With his sharp insight, Oliver discovers how cruelly Bertha is treated and, unbeknownst to her, begins working to save her! [English publication via Renta!](https://www.ebookrenta.com/renta/sc/frm/item/75282/)

UNDERNEATH IT ALL from fictiondb: New York executive Darren Kaiser has it all -- looks, money, women. Since being voted Bachelor of the Year by a national magazine, he's ready to disappear...and moving to Seattle disguised as a nerd is just the way to keep his identity a secret. But he hasn't counted on meeting Kate -- his gorgeous neighbor and a woman he'd gladly bare all to. When Kate Monahan meets "Dean," she's not sure what to think of him. Although they got off on the wrong foot, she knows he's a good guy. She just wishes he'd lose the geeky duds so she can see the sexy bod behind them! When Darren reveals the truth, though, will she still want the man underneath it all?

In the *Hijou na Koibito* series: V.1 - *Nessa no Hanayome* (The Desert Sheikh's Captive Wife, Kazuko Fujita) Tilda was shocked by her mother's words. Without her knowledge, her mother accumulated massive debts and was about to be evicted! But the man who holds the debts is the crown prince of Bakhar, Rashad, a former lover, and a man she'd hoped never to see again. He is a cruel man who sent Tilda away when she refused to be intimate with him. She's so shocked her blood runs cold when she hears his offer at their face-to-face meeting: "I will dissolve the debt if you become my lover once more." V.2 - *Ano Asa no Wakare kara* (The Greek Tycoon's Defiant Bride, Natsu Momose) Maribel has a crush on her cousin’s boyfriend, Leonidas, the Greek billionaire who constantly makes the tabloid headlines. She has a passionate one night stand with him, the day her cousin dies in a car crash! Maribel is convinced that she is nothing but a poor replacement for her cousin, yet she can’t help feeling hopelessly destroyed by Leonidas’s cold goodbye the morning after their tryst. Two years later, she is unexpectedly reunited with Leonidas, but she has a secret that she can never reveal to him. She had given birth to his child. Now, the truth has leaked to the paparazzi and tabloids alike! V.3 - *Yuuwaku no Chess Game* (The Italian Billionaire's Pregnant Bride, Natsue Ogoshi) “You won’t leave this game until every part of you belongs to me.” Sergio Torrente, an Italian businessman, is surprised at who he sees in the surveillance camera. The mysterious person making moves every night against his challenging chess display at the office turns out to be a cleaner clad in a shabby uniform. But how could such a beautiful woman be just a cleaner? Drawn to the mysterious woman, Sergio summons her and declares that she will play a game of chess with him every night, starting this very day!

Sara is 26 years old, but still a virgin, and in order to remedy that, her coworker has made a romance manual. Sara, interested in changing her late-bloomer ways, decides to use the manual to find a partner for her company's 30th anniversary party. Her target: the biggest playboy in the company, Jim. But Sara has accidentally set her love trap for the scariest and most imposing man in the company-Matt!

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!

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE Aspiring screenwriter Britt Kingsley knows that she has written a hit screenplay when she finishes "Dream Girl," but struggles to find her break in Hollywood as an unknown. Desperate to get her script read, she schemes to work as a secretary at a talent agency to make professional contacts. The opportunity comes when she picks up a phone call from acclaimed film director Derek Redmond. Pretending to be her boss, Britt successfully promotes her own script. When she meets him under these false pretenses, she is troubled to find herself irresistibly drawn to him...