Deborah Hale's Manga List

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?

Dying after a life of suffering, Jenny's mother's last words to her were to never marry a poor man. Jenny, a maid in Scotland, grew up with this lessonWhen she hears that a man who found success in the New World is looking for a bride, she boards a ship crossing the Atlantic. However, when the ship encounters a storm and she falls into the sea, Harris, a rumored misogynist, dives into the ocean and rescues her.When she awakes, she is in the New World. And he, the man who glared at her with scorn when she saw him in town, saved her? While traveling together to meet her husband-to-be, Jenny feels herself drawn to Harris despite his reputation and despite her best intentions.

Julianna had lost everything-her father to illness, her belongings to bankruptcy, her beloved sweetheart to a voyage to the South Seas. Thrown into marriage by her vile stepbrother, she meets her husband-to-be on their wedding day. Sir Edmund is cold, distant and twenty years her senior! "Is this what my life has come to?" Strangely enough, he suggests that they keep their relationship chaste. He is hard to read and full of mystery, but as Julianna learns more about him, she can't help but feel drawn to the kindness she discovers. Could her heart, promised to her beloved Crispin, possibly be swayed?

Leonora is a teacher struggling to teach the wild ex-soldier Morse how to become a gentleman in just three months! It all started with a wager she made with her uncle. If she wins, he will give her part of his fortune so that she can make her dream come true. Morse is very handsome and does look the part of a gentleman, but the issue is his inability to act like one. Not to mention, once he realizes that Leonora is sexually inexperienced, he is set on trying to seduce her... Morse's reckless love games are getting in the way of lessons, and now Leonora's pure heart is in danger!

One day, the impoverished but kind Angela receives a visit from the successor to a neighboring Earl, Lord Daventry. Hiding a terrible war wound with a mask, Lord Daventry avoids the public eye. He is feared by the people of the village, who believe he practices black magic. "What business could Lord Daventry have with me?" On her guard, Angela asks the reason for his visit, and Lord Daventry opens his dour mouth and abruptly proposes marriage. His grandfather's death is imminent, and to make him happy, Lord Daventry proposes a fictional engagement. Not realizing that her heart is drawn to this closed-off man, Angela accepts.

For the sake of the old Earl, who has fallen ill, Angela and Lord Daventry have agreed to a sham engagement. After the death of the Earl, when she is supposed to call the engagement off, Angela realizes that she loves Lord Daventry. "Though we're as different as night and day, I want this to be a real engagement." She conveys her feelings to him, but Lord Daventry, thinking she's confusing love with pity, turns her down. Lord Daventry believes that Angela should marry the vicar, who loves her, and not a man who hides his terrible wound behind a mask and is feared as "Lord Lucifer."