Nurse Lucy is shocked to find her former pediatrician lover, Connor, is going to be taking over the pediatric ward at the hospital she works at. He'd left her to move to America, so why would he come back now? When she finds out, Lucy can't help but be anxious. After they broke up, she became a single mother...and now Connor has returned to claim his place as Isabel's rightful father! She doesn't want to let her old flame near her daughter, and Lucy swears that she'll never give in to his demands. But Connor has other ideas...
In the middle of a downpour with two children in tow and a third on the way, Sarah desperately pounds on the door of her late husband's older brother, Jed. Left with a mountain of debt, she can only ask Jed for help. But the moment Jed sees Sarah, he angrily tries to drive the three of them back out into the storm. Sarah never expected such cold treatment from family. Once he comes back from checking the roads, Jed tells her, she and the children will have to leave. However, while he is out, a car accident leaves Jed with amnesia, and under the impression that Sarah is actually his wife!
Lisa parks her Jeep in front of a solitary ruined house in the desert. Desert lands never cease to fascinate her as a photographer. While being immersed in taking photographs there, Lisa sprains her ankle. To make matters worse, a sandstorm is approaching on the horizon. Lisa realizes that she is trapped by this impending menace. But a man riding a black horse effortlessly lifts Lisa up into his arms by a hairbreadth! Who is this beautiful man? To survive, Lisa has no choice but to cling to him, without knowing who he is.
Jenna Deane-who has a four-year-old at home and an ex-husband who shows up more than she'd like-can't afford to lose her job. When she finally meets the "boss from Hell" her coworkers have been warning her about, she might have trouble keeping things professional. What can you do when your boss takes you on a business trip, buys you gowns...and is engaged to someone else? Does Jenna have any choice but to be his secretary mistress?
Charlie trusts no one and counts on no one. She's busy running her bar to support herself and her sister. Abandoned by her father, she always had to take care of herself, especially after her mother's death. Then one day Charlie is taken hostage. Also taken is Harry, a private investigator in the middle of a case. Soaked by the rain, the two barely escape with their lives. If they're going to get through this, they're going to have to rely on each other...
After losing her home, Sophie is walking in the rain, pushing her son in his stroller. While she's looking for directions, she slips and falls in the gutter, almost getting hit by a car. Miserable, she looks up into the eyes of the man who stepped out of the car. It's Ettore, the man she fell in love with and who falsely accused her of being a jewelry thief! Sophie feels desperate, shaken after their cruel reunion, and that's before he mocks her for her misfortune. She absolutely cannot let this coldhearted man know about Torry, his son!
Lucy is secretary to Aristoteles, the CEO of a worldwide trading company. A playboy whose relationships with women never last long, he always ends them with an expensive gift before breaking up. He even has Lucy arrange this as part of her job. However, one rainy day, he sees Lucy changing her clothes, and their relationship begins to change. "You were hiding such charm beneath your plain clothes," he whispers sweetly in her ear, pushing her onto a desk and kissing her passionately. And now, the two of them are to leave together on a business trip to Athens...?
When his helicopter crashes in the jungle, Marco is severely injured. After his brush with death, all he can think about is Sophie, a childhood friend and the woman he tried to forget, but who was always on his mind. A few months later, Sophie hears that Marco is back at his parents' house. Her heart races. But he was the one who left her to pursue his dreams six years ago. She is still heartbroken, so she decides to have nothing to do with him this time round, whatever the reason behind his return...
Maggie Russell is considered the most brilliant young businesswoman in London. She's wealthy, lives in a posh flat, rubs elbows with the other elites of the business world and is completely content with the life she leads. When her grandfather dies, Maggie desperately searches for a way to make her grieving grandmother happy again. As luck would have it, the country house her grandparents lived in during their newlywed days is going up for auction and Maggie's determined to purchase it for her grandmother. Unfortunately, this city girl is no match for the countryside and its wild ways. Luckily for her, the mysterious farmer Finn Gordon is in a mood to save this damsel in distress. But when an unyielding rainstorm keeps her cooped up in the home of her rescuer, Maggie comes face-to-face with a desire as fierce and wild as the downpour outside.
Ever since her father committed suicide when she was fifteen, Verity has lived a miserable life in her aunt's house as a maid. The only thing that keeps her going is the memory of Max, who offered her comfort at her father's graveside five years ago. When a party is thrown at the house one day, an unusual guest introduces himself as Lord Maxwell Blakehurst. Could this actually be Max from back then? He's willing to save her from her current situation... All she has to do is become his mistress!
Lissa works hard without a moment's rest to save money for one purpose.... At the casino where she works, wearing flashy clothes and heavy makeup to hide who she truly is, she is approached by the dazzlingly attractive Xavier. He seems to have a keen interest in Lissa, acting like a true gentleman by escorting her home and even asking her to meet him for dinner. Although she cannot trust him, she cannot help being powerfully drawn to him....
Thea is the ugly duckling of high society. Shy by nature, Thea has never had a chance to blossom from under her grandmother's thumb. Thea has admired Peter Braddock for years, and agrees to let him escort her to a ball one night, but the two of them get soaked in a sudden downpour on the way home. She lets him in to change and dry off, but when her grandmother sees the two of them undressed in her room, she jumps to conclusions and sets in motion a huge scandal that will shake both of their families to the core!
Pippa didn't know what to do. The milk tanks on the farm she runs are polluted. Her savings are almost gone. Now the truck she was driving is stuck in the mud from a heavy rain. Then a beautiful black-haired man named Max approaches her. Max says the boy she is taking care of, Marc, her late best friend's son, is an heir to the royal family of Alp d'Estella. Pippa is taken to Alp d'Estella and quickly drawn into a plot. She starts to have feelings for Max, who is protecting her, but then she learns the secret of his birth!
Leah Taylor has covered Mafia turf wars, the AIDS epidemic and conflict in war-torn countries. What's happened to her that has her covering local fluff pieces in a small town? One brightpoint in her life is that her station's helicopter pilot is an old flame-Wyatt. A minor story about a small boat winds up with her crew and a group of students adrift in storm season on perilous waters. The mighty seas are getting rough,and it looks as though Leah's slim chance at romance is about to get tossed, too.
Fee is a run-of-the-mill lady's companion but also guards a secret. In fact, she is the wife of the Earl of Rosthorne, Nathan, who has just returned from battle and is the talk of the town. Five years ago, during the upheaval in Spain, they met, married and when she learned that he had another woman in his life, Fee ran away. One day, Nathan pays a visit to the home where Fee lives and upon seeing him Fee is shocked. His face, bearing a terrible scar, also wears a terrible expression... a completely different person from five years ago. Worried what has become of him, Fee takes the opportunity presented at an evening's masquerade to get close to him. But Nathan discovers it's her and before she knows it she's being whisked away to his home!
Terry has been in love with J.B for 7 years. He is a wealthy and powerful playboy, but he took her in when she had nowhere else to go, and was like family to her. She hoped he would reciprocate her love one day...but J.B breaks her heart instead. "Do you think I would ever want you?" he tells her. Distraught, Terry runs out of the house and is involved in a road accident. When she awakes, her memory has reverted to when she was 17... When J.B used to care for her...
Jayne Pembroke's entire Monday has been a disaster. She was soaked from the rain, she was late for work, and she's just heard rumors of company restructuring. But when billionaire Erik Randolph overhears her joking about trying to get easy alimony, he presents her with an offer she can't refuse. And when they soon find themselves walking down the aisle, Jayne can't help but wonder-could a marriage of convenience turn into one based on love?
Luca and Poppy swore they'd be together forever, until one day when Luca suddenly broke off their relationship, telling Poppy to forget him and find happiness. His family needed him to marry a woman of similarly high standing and he couldn't let them down. Fast forward seven years and Poppy's been trapped in a storm while checking on her grandmother's castle in Scotland. Shivering with fear, she hears the door burst open and the great silhouette of a man appears-revealing none other than Luca, the man she could never forget. Now the two must spend a candlelit night in the great, cold castle until the storm passes!
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...
One rainy night, Caitlin arrives at her new home in the French countryside only to discover it's run-down and doesn't even have electricity. Her old patient and friend Mard left her his old house, but this isn't what she was expecting. Seeing an unfamiliar car parked in the driveway, Mard's old friend Ray stops by to check on things. There he sees Caitlin, who's unsure of what to do about her new situation. Despite being suspicious of Mard's decision to leave Caitlin his old house, Ray invites her to stay at his own estate. Is Ray just being a friendly neighbor, or does he have ulterior motives in mind?