Joan Elliott Pickart's Manga List

Alice MacAllister had to escape her family of wealth and luxury to pursue her dreams. Nowadays, she toils in a restaurant to scrape by while struggling to become a master painter. With a gallery exhibit coming up, Alice finds herself juggling both her artwork and a new relationship... Will fate paint a pretty picture of her and this new man?

Night-shift nurse Maggie stares down at a patient who was rushed into the hospital in the dead of night. Ever since she was a little girl, she's believed that she's destined to fall in love with a prince-and the sleeping man before her, with his glossy dark skin and sexy lips, is the spitting image of the prince she'd always envisioned. Succumbing to impulse, Maggie suddenly kisses him-just as he opens his eyes and declares that he is the prince of a tiny nation! This self-proclaimed prince proceeds to string suspicious Maggie along with his sexy charms, pulling the not-so-innocent desires hidden in her dreams out into reality!

Fantasy novelist Jillian Jones-Jenkins always stays in the house. She hasn't had a single romantic encounter in the past thirty years, and she's never been in love. Her friend Andrea is worried about her and assigns her brother Forrest as a "trial horse" so Jillian can find out what love is like. Jillian is a dreamer, who always lives in a fantasy, while Forrest is an A-list celebrity and a realist. They live in very different worlds. But that isn't the only problem-Jillian has yet to find out that her romantic meeting with Forrest was all a setup!

In Prescott's beautiful forest, Ben, a doctor, found a woman who had fallen. She looked scared, as if she were being chased, so he took her into his arms until she calmed down. But even then she couldn't recall her own name. For the time being, Ben named her Fall. As a confirmed bachelor, he had no desire to get involved with anyone, but Fall's memory is gone and he's the only one she can rely on. Though he senses there's something dangerous in her past, Ben decides to take her home with him.

Taylor was standing at the front door of a boutique filled with lace and frills. Most men would show hesitation, but Taylor wasn't frightened off by femininity. Inside he finds an unfashionable woman wearing heavy black-framed glasses. Could this be the owner, Ms. Janice? People say she is both beautiful and not beautiful at the same time. He introduces himself as her new account. And almost immediately Taylor begins to feel the magnetism of this mysterious woman...

Andrea has traveled to the small country town of Prescot to recuperate. Unfortunately she gets caught in a storm, suffers a flat tire, the storm worsens and she ends up collapsing in the snow. Luckily she receives care from Brandon, the hotel owner who rescued her. He can't help but see himself in Andrea-she can't seem to tear herself away from her work, and he wants her to be happy. It's then that Brandon's aunts tell the two about a lucky charm for lovers, saying there's a beautiful butterfly that may only be seen by two people in love.