Takako Hashimoto's Manga List

"I want to live on the wild side for once!" On her thirtieth birthday, Gwen turns to rum to drown her sorrows. Her husband has left her, and though her life revolves around raising her two children, it feels empty lately. What has she accomplished in her life? Her neighbor Spense happens to overhear her drunken mumbling and gives her another birthday present-a hot birthday kiss that awakens a storm in Gwen's heart! But hunky Spense is a successful entrepreneur, and Gwen's a plain Jane. She knows the kiss was only a joke, yet she's starting to have feelings for him...

When Noel, the crown princess of Montacroix, lays eyes on a hundred-year-old sketch of the American Old West, she's captivated. After seeing the sketch, she has a vision of a Native American man with deep blue eyes and such a regal bearing Noel fears he could steal her heart. The man in her vision is an author named Wolfe, who is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit. Guided by a strange sense of destiny, she flies from Montacroix to Arizona to retrace the man's footsteps. Noel's heartfelt wish is to meet him and save him from a cruel end. But in the middle of her journey, she gets into an accident and blacks out. When she next opens her eyes, the man standing in front of her is...Wolfe?

Blythe lives alone in a ravine by the sea, working in gardening and flower arranging. One morning when she opened the door, she heard the beautiful sound of an organ. Someone had moved into an empty house in the same valley! Blythe goes to greet them with some cookies and a bouquet of flowers but Jas, a very grumpy looking man, appears. He is a mathematician absorbed in proving a certain theorem. Blythe can't help but be curious about the unsocial but kind Jas. It turns out he has a sad past...

Jacinda's dearest sister, who lived in Manhattan, died mysteriously, and Jacinda won't believe it was suicide. So she infiltrates the high-end apartment building where her sister used to live to try to uncover the truth. She's hired as a housekeeper by billionaire Gage, who was her sister's secret boyfriend. She's broadsided by his overwhelming attractiveness, but the thought of becoming the lover of a man who might have killed her sister never enters her mind... ※This work is originally colored.