Akemi Maki's Manga List

Before Andrea's husband died, he was a professor studying the legends of King Arthur. In order to finish her husband's final work, Andrea is staying at a thirteenth-century chateau owned by one of her late husband's friends-a duke. As the sun sets one day, Andrea is taking photographs on the castle's grounds when a man suddenly confronts her. "This area is out of bounds!" Her handsome accuser has sharp blue eyes that put Andrea in mind of the legendary Sir Lancelot. He is Lancelot Malbois de Lac, the duke's only son.

Lucia has been infatuated with her cousin, Luka, the Prince of Dacia, for years. But Luka is married to Alexa, and Lucia is left to pine after a man she can't have. Then she meets Hunter Radcliffe, a commoner who has worked hard to build his business and fortune. To escape the oppressive lifestyle of being a royal, Lucia travels with Hunter to New Zealand...and finds herself falling in love. When she discovers she is pregnant with Hunter's child, she is torn between what appears to be a union of convenience and her own yearning for a marriage with love.

Angie, one of a group of four close college friends, claims she has a trick that will make any man you want marry you. They choose a playboy millionaire as the target of their experiment, and Gemma, the most unenthusiastic of the quartet, to be his intended. Gemma humors them, putting on a disguise and acting like his ideal woman. The love that develops between turns out to be the real thing. But the girl their target met isn't the real Gemma at all!

After her friend begs her for help, financier Amanda agrees to help with the production of a new TV show-as a costar! The show involves two people from completely different worlds coming together and sharing each other's lifestyles for a week-so of course Amanda gets stuck with Will the gardener! He loves plants and lives life fruitfully; she loves sticking to her desk and crunching numbers with no distractions. Oil and water much? But soon she realizes that meeting Will has her heart beginning to bloom, as well.

Meg, a worker at a resort on Magnetic Island, Australia, finds an old antique bottle on the shore one night. Inside is a letter from a soldier to his beloved wife written sixty years ago, when he realized he probably wouldn't be coming home alive. Before long, the story spreads far and wide, reaching his grandson Sam in Seattle. He comes to Magnetic Island to take the letter, and in an instant, he steals Meg's heart with his sky-blue eyes and movie-star looks. But she's nothing but a fling to him...or so she thinks, until one night of passion and romance!

Dora is staying at a cottage belonging to her sister and her husband when late one night she wakes up to some suspicious sounds. When she goes down to the living room, she discovers a barefoot, shivering little girl looking petrified and a strange man in the kitchen. "Who the hell are you?" When the man realizes that Dora is living there, he decides to leave immediately. While she doesn't mind the man's departure, Dora can tell from looking at her that the little girl has a fever and isn't feeling well. Dora can't bear to abandon her. Just then, the police show up having been alerted by the home security system. Without thinking, Dora lies and tells the police that nothing is amiss!

Sara, a history teacher, was devastated after her boyfriend left her for another teacher. She had always chosen the safe path but in the end nothing worked out... So Sara makes a huge change and moves to Rome! Before her departure, her great-grandfather advises her to cure her broken heart with a new romance, to fall in love with a dark-eyed Italian. Sara laughs it off until it becomes reality! Matteo is mesmerizing...his passionate gaze makes her go weak!

Melissa Swift, an ER doctor, went on a holiday to Italy for some much-needed relaxation. While she's unwinding on the beach, a boy is severely injured in an accident, but thanks to her skilled care, she's able to save the boy's life. Later at the hospital, she meets the emergency room doctor, Mateo, who also happens to be the boy's father! He is strikingly handsome, and his deep brown eyes begin to make Melissa's heart beat faster. Mateo is overwhelmed by gratitude for Melissa's kindness...but there's something more there, too. His words are as sweet as chocolate and Lissa is melting in the face of his passion. But Lissa has made up her mind never to fall in love with anyone again. Will this rare encounter spark the true love she never hoped to gain?

One morning as Tazzy opens her door to go to work, she finds a gift on her doorstep from an unknown sender. Her boss says the gift was probably sent for Valentine's Day, but Tazzy has no idea who the sender could be. And anyway, she doesn't want Ross to think that she has a romantic partner in her life! Tazzy has secretly been in love with Ross for a long time. The mystery only deepens, though, as her admirer continues to send her gifts!

Jeanie had had a crush on Ward, a handsome and talented lawyer, for five years. It was love at first sight for her. But he is still in love with his deceased wife and to him Jeanie is simply a friend. Thirty-two-year-old Jeanie has decided it's time to get these unreciprocated feelings out of her head. But when Ward approaches her, she weeps at her loss. Ward realizes she is having problems of the heart and wants to be a good friend, but how can she tell him that he is the one she loves?

Texas billionaire Tyson hires Merri to assist him with his charitable foundation. Working with him, Merri finds herself attracted to his honesty and laid-back demeanor. Once a supermodel, Merri is tired of a life spent running from the paparazzi and sees this work as her chance to escape from the superficial glitz and glamour. She hides her beauty behind unflattering clothes and thick glasses and is finally able to live the normal life she's always dreamed of. She knows if anyone discovers the truth, it'll all be over, but she hates having to lie to Tyson...

When she lost her parents at the age of eighteen, Abby sacrificed her youth to be able to support and take care of her sister. The only man she's been close to is her boss, Nick, who runs the restaurant Abby works at. Nick and Abby are best friends on and off the job, but on the day of Abby's sister's birthday party, their relationship changed dramatically. It all started when they almost kissed. Since that day, Nick's attitude toward Abby has changed and, now that she's noticed it, Abby can't seem to ignore what a tempting man he is...which is a real problem since Nick isn't single!

Julianna has been dressing in men's clothing to protect Tuck's Tower ever since the death of her father. The elegant dress her late mother made for her sits unused. Washing herself with fragrant soap is the only ladylike luxury she enjoys. One night, she is alerted to an emergency in the forest, where she finds a seriously wounded man. She takes the unconscious man to the tower. When the man awakes, revealing his blue eyes, Julianna falls for him in an instant. What a handsome man he is, and what a bind she's in!

Rosie was waiting for her lover to arrive at the church. They planned to elope without telling her family anything; however, the person who appeared wasn't her lover, but her brother's friend Steve! He told the surprised Rosie an unbelievable truth. The man she was going to marry was a fraud who was after her money, and he'd been paid to leave. Everything went black for Rosie. She was pregnant with that man's child...but Steve's next words were even more shocking... Now Rosie must ask herself if she should take Steve up on his offer of marriage!

They met at the hospital when the youngest daughter of the Marchetti family gave birth. The moment the nurse, Liz, saw Joe Marchetti, she fell for his kind gaze. But she was traumatized by the way her philandering father had always kept her family in a state of near collapse, so she had no expectations of romance from handsome men. A year later, Joe applied for a volunteer program at the hospital, but what did this handsome man hope to get out of it? Liz started working with him-and opening her heart to him-when she saw his diligence and honesty.

The handsome Alex Marchetti has come to Fran, a chef, with a proposal. He's the brother of a close friend and the son of a family that develops restaurant chains. He wants Fran to help him develop a line of frozen foods for his company. And as if that weren't big enough news, he tells her that they're being set up by Fran's friend, an inveterate romantic. Fran never had any dreams of getting married, but will working with Alex change her mind?

Cory runs into a man named Nick while out for a walk, and he unexpectedly asks her to come with him to a party at a high-end club in London. Everything about the place is otherworldly to Cory. She can't help falling for this attractive man after spending such a wonderful time with him, but she has a painful past that prevents her from moving forward with a new romance. He shows up the next day to ask if she'll give him a try. She's loath to get hurt by falling in love all over again, yet she finds herself irresistibly attracted to this man...

She'll throw away her past with him and be reborn! Donna, who finally was able to open up her dream tea room, celebrated at the restaurant owned by her former lover and benefactor, Marcus. She wanted to get rid of her feelings to begin her new life. But Marcus's sexy voice once again lit the flame of love in her heart. After their painful breakup nine years ago, she thought the past in which they loved each other had been erased. But Marcus was pressing for a reconciliation with the words, "I want to love you"...!

Cassie Bradley Wright's family believes in a legend behind their family heirloom-a nightgown, which if worn on the night of the wearer's twenty-fifth birthday will grant her a dream of the man she could marry who will make her happy forever. As the night for her to don the family nightgown approaches, Cassie agrees to stay in the home of Ryan Lawford, a handsome and kind man who just became the guardian of his recently deceased brother and sister-in-law's daughter, Sasha. Cassie helps him look after Sasha, but she is finding it difficult not to fall for Ryan, even though she is already in a nine-year relationship with her high school boyfriend. Ryan further complicates things when he gives her a passionate kiss the likes of which she's never experienced before. Which man will Cassie dream of the night of her birthday? Who does Cassie really want to dream about?

After attending the Marchetti family's wedding, attorney Madison ends up spending the night with the youngest Marchetti brother, Luke. Luke never imagined Maddie was a virgin, and he asks her why she chose him that night, but she doesn't know-she doesn't believe in romance and always puts work first. So why did she sleep with Luke? A few days later, Maddie learns shocking news about Luke's birth, which devastates him. Maddie tries to support him as he goes through a mental breakdown and isolates himself from his family, but now she has no idea how to tell him she's pregnant!