Jessica Steele's Manga List

Pernelle tried to buy a beautiful home in Cotswolds, but a rich man swooped in and took it from under her. She ends up buying the tiny house next to it, but her new neighbor isn't very welcoming. He makes fun of her butt in shorts, sees her drenched in the rain while she's locked out of her house, and countless other embarrassing moments. But despite his not-so-nice demeanor around her, she can't help but melt at his spur-of-the-moment kiss... From that day on, her heart is filled with only him.

After being severely injured in an accident, Amber overhears that she has only six months to live. She decides she'll enjoy the little time she has left and goes to a luxurious bar. There she meets Wolf and spends the night with him. She leaves the following morning without saying goodbye, knowing this can be nothing more than a cherished memory for her. A few months later, Amber's visiting her friend on holiday when she sees none other than Wolf, whose real name is Dyson!

Mercy has a quiet, unassuming life in the small English village where she was born. Engaged to a frugal yet polite man, she believes that her peaceful life will continue from here on out...that is, until her best friend returns from London and turns everyone on their head! Her friend's wedding is an extravagant affair, very different from anything Mercy has ever known. But then the bride goes into a panic when a handsome man with cold eyes appears. She says that this man, Croft, is here to ruin the wedding. Rushing to her friend's rescue, Mercy tries to distract the man...and ends up ruining her own life instead!

When Mallon, a beautiful housekeeper, is attacked by her employer and rushes out into the rain, she is picked up by a man in a luxury car who calls himself Harris. Mallon has grown to distrust men, but Harris's calm gray eyes allow her to relax her guard. When she sees where they have arrived, however, she starts to regret her carelessness. The place is practically a ruin, and there's no other house around. Mallon, recalling all her nightmares, is constantly fearful, but there is one thing she doesn't yet know-her encounter with Harris is the ray of light that will cut through the darkness of her life...

Kathryn was days away from her wedding with Rex. She should've been overflowing with joy and anticipation, but instead she was filled with doubt. Then she catches her fiance in bed with another woman! She feels betrayed, yet she isn't as hurt by him as she thinks she ought to be. Still, she never wants to see Rex again, even after he gets in an accident. But when his brother, Nate, comes to his brother's side, he starts accusing Kathryn of unjustly dumping Rex. As he tries to make her life difficult, Nate can't help but be drawn to her...

Verity's father had promised that when she turned twenty-one, a position on the board of trustees of his company would be hers. But when the time came, he gave it to someone else! Verity is shocked, and then explodes in anger. "I'll show you, I'll steal that position back from him!" But the man who stole her seat, Holt Jepherson, is as stubborn as he is strangely attractive...!

Aldona finds herself in a grave predicament while on vacation in Malta. Zeb, a young businessman, is fiercely drawn to this beautiful, reserved woman; however, Aldona is being threatened by a man who knows about her father's fraudulent activities. She has agreed to join him on vacation as his "lover" on the condition that he keep quiet about her father's wrongdoing. Aldona was shocked to discover her strict father had committed a crime, but was even more dismayed that she'd have to let herself be treated like a prostitute... And what's worse, she can't tell anyone about it-certainly not her beloved Zeb! "I can't sleep with him without telling him the truth first!" Aldona longs to confess, but continues to keep silent, causing Zeb to misunderstand and build up a tremendous rage, unlike any Aldona has ever witnessed. Was his anger the result of true love?

At the request of her dying mother, Alandra journeys to her father's childhood home. She was under the impression that her grandfather was a coldhearted tyrant and didn't expect to be welcomed into his home. But her grandfather turns out to be a kind, albeit lonely, old man. The only tyrant she sees is Matt Carstairs. That arrogant man even had the audacity to accuse Alandra of being a gold digger!

When Jemma goes to London to visit her sister, Christine, she expects to have an uneventful vacation. Her sister may be a glamorous model and the talk of the town, and Jemma is plain by comparison, but that doesn't stop a certain man from mixing them up! She's mistaken for her sister by Karn, the uncle of Christine's current boy toy, who wants to end their relationship. But when Karn angrily kisses Jemma, she begins to feel something she's never experienced before...

Marriage couldn't be further from legal secretary Jazzlyn's mind. In order to rid herself of the baggage of love, she's developed a rule not to date the same man more than three times. When she accidentally breaks her own rule and braves a fourth date with one man, he bombards her with marriage talk. Jazzlyn swears never to break her rule again. But Jazzlyn's heart goes into overdrive when the charming and handsome Holden comes to visit her father-perhaps rules are made to be broken, after all...

An unfortunate string of events sends Varnie running off to her countryside home to be alone for a while. Imagine her surprise when she finds out she's not the only one using her house to hide out. Apparently her stepbrother gave his boss permission to use Varnie's home as his own private getaway spot. However, what's more unsettling is that her stepbrother's boss is none other than Leon Beaumont, the infamous adulterer who's currently the headlining topic in every gossip magazine. To make matters even worse, her stepbrother's job is at risk if Varnie kicks Leon out.

Karrie Dolton could have cruised through her career without ever standing out, but accidentally spilling a drink on Farne Maitland's dress shirt could cost her her job! He offers her an easy way to repay him: just go on a simple date with him. Will Karrie fall for a man who might just be more in love with his job than his employee?

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...

Phelix was forced to get married at the age of 18 because of her tyrant father. She met her husband-to-be, Nathan Mallory, for the first time at the registrar. He was 10 years older than her, tall and sophisticated, and she soon fell in love. But what awaited them after getting married was a cruel betrayal by her father, and she still remembers the stormy night when her father r*ped her mother! The man's cruel acts continue to haunt her, threatening to destroy her own marriage...

Having been raised by a jaded and cynical mother, secretary Alethia has managed to keep men at arm's length her entire adult life. That is until one night when she's approached at a party by a gorgeous man named Trent, who manages to coax Alethia into having dinner with him after a night of passionate dancing. Alethia comes home from their date only to have her older sister come running to her in tears. Her husband is facing charges for embezzling money from the company he works for, and it turns out that Trent is none other than the CEO of that very company. She pleads with Alethia to ask Trent to drop the charges. When Alethia informs Trent of the situation, he agrees on one condition-Alethia has to move in with him...

Lysan was engaged before she realized what had happened...or so it felt to her. When her childhood friend Noel lost his parents, her attempts to comfort him blew up into an engagement... Her family is elated, but Lysan herself is unsettled and decides to take a journey...to the country where Dante, a man she once met, lives. In a confused daze, Lysan steps foot in a foreign land...and runs right into Dante himself!!

Bachelor's Bargain-When a precious heirloom Merren was planning to sell is stolen, she doesn't know what she'll do. She needed the money to pay her brother's debt and has no other way of raising funds. That is, until the wealthy Jarad offers to help her. But Merren has no idea that the money he's given her is a contract fee for pretending to be his fake girlfriend! Getting Personal-Benny, a secretary, has been in love with the president of her company for the past five years. But what he desires is a high-society bride so that he can climb the social ladder. Feeling desperate, Benny resorts to extreme measures to get his attention!

After her father dies, Phinn Hawkins finds herself and her elderly horse, Ruby, without a home. Her new landlords, the Allardyce brothers, turn her out for not being able to pay rent. She is able to find a job and lodgings for both herself and Ruby at a nearby riding school, but even that good fortune turns sour when a new manager moves in. Wandering a nearby forest, wondering what to do next, she finds Ashley Allardyce drowning in a lake, and quickly rescues him. When the eldest Allardyce brother, Tyrell, learns of Phinn's troubles, he hires her as a companion for sickly, heartbroken Ashley. But as Phinn and Ashley grow close, Tyrell becomes jealous.

When Lucy, the heiress of the wealthy Carey family, loses her antique ring, the only memento of her late mother, her spirits sink. But one day, at an extravagant charity function, she spots it...on the finger of Carol, a beautiful woman she's never seen before! Carol's the date of a man named Jud. When Lucy finds Jud and tells him the ring is all she has left of her mother, he makes a shocking offer. He'll give her the ring...but only by slipping it on her left ring finger and making her his fiancee! The Careys are aristocrats in name only, and Lucy has mere pennies to her name, so she has no choice but to accept his proposal.

Yancie, a driver for a large company, notices that she is nearly out of gas one day when she's out in one of the company cars. Panicking, she cuts across another lane of traffic to refuel. At that moment, a horn blares, and she nearly collides with a luxury car. A man exits the car to accuse her of reckless driving, but a startled Yancie gets angry herself and calls him a "noisy old man"! The next day, when she's called into the president's office at work, she's prepared to be upbraided. But she isn't prepared to come face-to-face with the same noisy man!