Diana Palmer's Manga List

Sara, who works in a bookstore, is interested in Jared Cameron, one of her customers. A handsome man who has just moved to town, he's not the type to be open with others. But there is something sweet in his attitude that only Sara can see, and she quickly falls in love with him. One day he is escorting Sara home from a party when meaningful conversation and a kiss ignite their passions. Sara is swept away by the romance of it all, but the night that began so sweetly will soon become terribly cruel.

Jillian was in a fix. A clause in her uncle's will stipulates that unless she marries the town's police chief, Theodore Graves, she will forfeit her ranch, which is her home. Jillian has known Theodore since she was little. She likes him. But the idea of marrying him, when they haven't even dated, is too much. Jillian is twenty-one years old, but she's never been in a romantic relationship with a man. In fact, she lives with the terrible memory of nearly being r*ped when she was a teenager by a man her uncle had hired to do odd jobs. Can Jillian overcome her fear of men to become a bride one day?

Bett, a Broadway actress, was scammed out of all of her money by her former manager. She sees a casting call for Girl in a Dark Room, a play with painful memories for her, but being broke and desperate for work, she decides to audition. The screenwriter for this play, Edward McCullough, was Bett's first love and the man who abandoned her for fame and more experienced women. When they reunite six years later, she pretends to be a woman who's willing to use a man with talent and fortune-she doesn't want him to know that she's still a virgin...or that she's still hopelessly in love with him...

One rainy night-after two years of caring for her beloved mother have come to a tragic end-a surprise guest suddenly shows up at Bess's house... The man at the door is a distant relative named Jude who convinces Bess to move to his farm in Texas. He only has one goal in mind. Jude wants to marry her in order to get the stock shares in his oil company that Bess's mother left her. She used to dream of having Jude to herself, but now that he's here and only wants to marry her for money, she's deeply hurt and rejects his proposal. But then Bess starts to see the kind side of him, the side she used to know, and gradually starts to fall for him again...

Teddi is a student paying her way through college by modeling. She dreams of becoming a teacher one day. People around her sometimes misjudge her, assuming she lives a life of idle luxury. Her best friend Jenna has invited Teddi to her family ranch in Canada to spend the summer there, which sounds appealing...except that she doesn't want to see Jenna's brother, King. He makes biting remarks when he sees her. Why does her first love despise her this much? She wishes she could just hate him...

The shrewd attorney Hawke is known in legal circles as the devil. For the young reporter Siri, he's someone to keep an eye on. Years ago, she pined for the man who was her father's business partner. Hawke always treated her like a child...but Siri is now a grown woman! When she's offered an exclusive scoop on the case that Hawke's working on, she heads down to Panama City, Florida. There, she and the man she still wants find they're staying in a hotel suite together! Hawke's gaze feels different than before... Is this what being seduced feels like?

For struggling Sassy, John, who's just moved to her small town, is like a real-life Prince Charming. Not only does he help her out as she works hard at a small feed store, he also rescues her when she's attacked by her menacing manager. With a sick mother and a young sister to support, Sassy has no time for love. But she can't stop her feelings for handsome, reliable John. Little does she know that he's really a famous billionaire from a world that's completely beyond her reach...

Tiffany is excited for her twenty-first birthday-the day she will finally become an adult, just like her father's business partner and her childhood Prince Charming, King Marshall. Knowing that he will come to her birthday party, she prepares a sexy surprise for him. King can't believe his eyes when he sees the little girl he grew up with trying to seduce him! But he coldly rejects her for her own sake. Half a year later Tiffany is a successful model in New York, and she goes back home for Christmas. She didn't want to see King's face but he keeps showing up...until he surprises her with a passionate kiss.

At thirty-four, Blake Hamilton was an arrogant lady-killer determined to keep his heart free. But to Kathryn Mary Kilpatrick he was a guardian stricter than the father she'd lost. She tried to rebel in the arms of another man...until a furious Blake promised to teach her a lesson she'd never forget, plunging them both into a fiery passion that was dangerously close to love!

Abby was raised in the great state of Texas and will soon turn twenty-one. But because of her guardian, Calhoun Ballenger, she's romantically inexperienced and has never had a boyfriend. He's been like a big brother to her ever since both of her parents died, but he's also well-known in town for being a playboy. Still, to Abby he's the perfect person to fall in love with. However, he's never seen her as anything but a little sister, and no matter how old she gets, he always treats her like a child. She's going to have to find a way to prove to him that she's a grown woman!

Only one woman has the power to drive Dawson Rutherford, a seemingly heartless man, wild. A tempestuous night long ago forced Dawson to abandon all hope of making Barrie Bell his lawfully wedded wife. But now, after five years apart, he comes to her with an unbelievable proposal-he needs her to pose as his temporary fiancee! There's no telling what sharing a house with this hot-blooded woman would do to the man of ice.

On the huge Texas ranch that's run by the Hart brothers, Tess can't understand why the second oldest brother, Callaghan, is always so cold to her. But it takes only one act of kindness from him to make her fall in love. One day, the two end up sharing a surprising and passionate kiss. So why does the much older Callaghan still keep pushing her away?

Merlyn is fed up with men who approach her with an ulterior motive-to get to her father's money. So she makes a deal with her father that he won't force her to get married if she can live for a month without revealing her identity. Bravely accepting the deal, she moves out and lands a job as a live-in assistant to a novelist. The only problem is that she and her employer's banker son, Cameron, fight like cats and dogs. Then one incident changes the dynamic of their relationship...

After her wealthy rancher father's bankruptcy, Shelby was forced off her family's property. Then Justin, a man she'd never been able to forget after their difficult breakup, turned up. She asked him if he'd come back to gloat at the now penniless former rich girl who dumped him due to his poverty, but she couldn't hide the anxiety beneath her words. He surprised her with his solution: "We should get married." She knew his proposal was born out of a desire for revenge, but why couldn't she reject him?

Noreen is a nurse who has never been loved. She secretly loves Ramon, a heart surgeon, but he seems to have a vendetta against her. She has no idea if the throbbing pain in her chest is because of her chronic heart condition or, in fact, her broken heart. One day, she falls seriously ill, and the surgeon who operates on her is none other than Ramon! He finally learns about Noreen's feelings, but is it too late for him to mend her broken heart?

After Jenny's high-stress life as an interior designer in the big city ruins her health, she goes to a ranch in Texas to get back to nature and work as a housekeeper. But when she finally gets there, she doesn't meet the person she was expecting. Instead she's greeted by a burly and unsociable cowboy named Everett. When she asks to see the man who hired her, he tells her his brother died a week ago. Feeling pity for a girl who has nowhere else to go, Everett ultimately decides to honor his brother's dying wish and hire Jenny.

Matt Caldwell must be the hardest-hearted man in the world! The last thing he wants to do is open up to a woman and risk getting hurt. But Leslie Murry is in need of a protector, and Matt might just be the one who can guard her future. When Leslie suddenly finds herself in Matt's strong arms, she wonders if she could be the one to knock down the bachelor's protective walls and finally bring love to his life!

Even though popular romance novelist Margie has almost no experience when it comes to love, she writes under the pen name Silva, who is reputed to have had many lovers. Her real identity is a secret kept from the media. One day, she learns that Cannon, the elder brother of her sister's fiance, is opposed to their marriage, so she calls him up. He informs her that the son of a plutocrat and a poor girl are a poor match. In order to convince him otherwise, Margie visits his villa in Florida, but can she resist his charms? And what will happen when he finds out that she writes the "pornography" he looks down on?

Eleanor is crushed when she learns that her boss, Curry, whom she has always longed for, has no interest in her as a woman. Especially when she has been working so hard for him. So when her good friend Jim offers her a new job, Eleanor decides to give up on love and leave her boss. The moment she turns in her resignation, Curry unleashes an onslaught of cruel, insulting words. Yet when Eleanor fights back, she's shocked that Curry responds with an intense, deep kiss!

When Allie goes with her soon-to-be-married friend to a bar, she is met with a passionate and intense gaze from Gene, brother of the groom-to-be and a known womanizer with striking green eyes. Allie falls head over heels for him at first glance; however, he pushes her away and leaves her with an ominous warning: "I'm not a good man-you'd best keep your distance from me." Devastated that the first man she's ever wanted has rejected her, she's surprised when he suddenly returns with serious injuries. As she heals his wounded body, he steals a kiss from her...her first kiss!