Leo Spencer is the CEO of a major London company, but that's not the story he tells the Irish pub owner he meets. Brianna believes Leo is a writer investigating the emerald hills of Ireland for his next novel. The truth is somewhere in the middle: Leo is a London CEO in Ireland to investigate, but not for a novel. Leo's looking for the mother who abandoned him when he was an infant. Brianna knows nothing of this and finds herself charmed by the man who tries so hard to help her out during a sudden snowstorm. He's nice, helpful, warm...and available. Brianna and Leo start up a romance while they're in each other's company, but Leo is still on a mission. He needs to find his birth mother-little does he know that Brianna is actually good friends with her!
Perdita is at a loss. She will do anything to save her father's company, but the only way to save it is to negotiate a loan with Jared, the man who betrayed her three years ago. Before negotiations can even begin, Jared insists that Perdita travel to the United States with him. Perdita has no time to think before the plane is already in the sky. Trapped, Perdita is at the mercy of her ex-husband. Will this unexpected trip to the United States save her father's company, or will Jared prove to be the devil she has always believed him to be?
For four years Rose has dutifully worked as a Gabriel's secretary, hiding her feelings and her body in an ill-fitting suit, not letting her boss know she harbors a crush on him. When she takes a three-month vacation in Australia to visit her sister, she finds that the only food she can eat is salad, so she's come back to the office as a slender bombshell and with more confidence than she ever expected! Now, instead of buying gifts for Gabriel's dates and writing Dear John letters, she finds herself challenging Gabriel. She wants to do more with her life than just be a secretary, so she gives him an ultimatum: let her be more than a secretary and take classes to further her career, or let her go to build her career on her own. But Gabriel can't let her go now that he's fallen in love with her!
Ten years have passed since Charlene's parents died and her then-boyfriend, Brand, left her. She has no intention of forgiving him-without his support, she lost her little sister, Cissy, to their horrible relatives, and she blames it on Brand, who refused to marry her. Raised by her aunt and uncle, Cissy has grown up to be selfish and rebellious. And then one morning, Charlene wakes up to a baby on her couch with a letter from Cissy stating that Brand is the child's father!
Now widowed, Ava faces a cruel reality-her late husband left her with crippling debt. To make matters worse, the creditor is Marc Castellano, her former lover. Five years ago Ava had no choice but to leave Marc and marry his business rival. Determined to take revenge, Marc has now invited Ava to his suite to give her two options: become his mistress or pay off her debts. Without the resources to do the latter, Ava has only one choice left...
Selene lives on a remote Greek island with her abusive father, dreaming of the day that she can be free. At the age of seventeen, she falls in love for the first time with her father's business rival, the young and wealthy Stefan. He earnestly listens to her dreams and tells her they should meet again in five years. Hanging on to those words, she makes a secret plan to escape the island. But on that fateful day, the innocent Selene learns that Stefan might just be more dangerous than she imagined.
Talia disguises herself as her twin brother to enter the desert kingdom of Zohayd, only to be kidnapped and held captive there. Just as she realizes her desperate situation, a handsome man makes an explosive entrance and appears before her. Seeing through Talia's disguise right away, he tries to seduce her. It is only after Talia kisses him that she discovers his name is Harres Aal Shalaan. He is the prince of the family that sent her twin brother to prison! Her burning desire for him quickly shifts to intense hatred...
A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!Lily, who was abandoned as a baby and moved from one foster family to another, dreams about having her own loving family one day. She's a cautious person and she's never had any casual romantic relationships before. One day, she's sent to clean the mansion of a wealthy Greek man named Nik Zervakis, and his girlfriend believes he's been cheating on her with Lily and walks out angrily. Lily is shocked at this, but she really panics when Nik coldly tells her to get ready for tonight's party since she's the only replacement date he can find on such short notice!
Mistress to a Sheikh-When Jade met Khalil, a prince from a desert country, she was captivated by his deep blue eyes. After passionately surrendering her virginity to him, she began living with him in a magnificent villa. But even after two years, he still won't introduce her to his family. Can Jade go on living with their arrangement? Mistress at the Italian's Command-After Ally's twin sister was deserted by a married man with whom she was having an affair, she tried to take her own life. His relative, Vittorio, tries to shield his family from the scandal by making it look as if she was actually his own mistress. What he doesn't realize is that Ally is pretending to be her twin sister...
Callie was abandoned by her parents at a young age. Fortunately, she was taken in by a wealthy family who owned a large business. Now she works for their company as a secretary. But it seems that someone in the company has been leaking information to a rival business. It took some persuading, but Callie finally agreed to spy on the competition in return. However, she runs into an immediate roadblock when she realizes Josh Tremont, the owner, is far more handsome and charming than she expected...
Isobel, who works at a gallery in London, was vacationing on a remote island in Greece when she slipped off a cliff and was knocked unconscious. When she came to, a gorgeous man was looking back at her. He had a salty attitude, and Isobel quickly learned why. He was Lukas, a Greek millionaire. Lukas wondered whether Isobel had injured herself on purpose to lure him in, but his concerns were quickly allayed and their attraction grew. Still, there are dark shadows that loom in Lukas's eyes and never seem to go away. And a darkness from Isobel's past lurks in her heart, too.
Accused of being boring when she was dumped by her boyfriend, May decided to prove the world wrong by accepting a rich man's invitation to stay in a luxurious Manhattan hotel for five nights! But in the end, he never showed up. She came all the way to New York...only to be alone? The despairing May is encouraged by a friend to go on an adventure, so once May has bolstered her courage, she puts on high heels, goes into a fashionable bar and pretends to be a completely different person, cool and urbane. There she meets local author Beck Desmond. It's decided-this plain country flower is going to become a bright city light!
On the way to a Christmas party at a friend's house, Eve is caught in a storm and finds shelter at a nearby hotel. How lucky she is, she thinks. Seeing her friend's beautiful family would only make her lonely anyway. That night, as if she'd taken a sip of some love potion, she goes to bed with a man she barely knows. Overwhelmed by the burning passion inside her, she sneaks away while he is still asleep. But on New Year's Eve, she is shocked to find herself face-to-face with the same man-a man who is now her colleague!-at a party.
When Liz, the CEO of a housekeeping company, visits her client, also a CEO, she finds out that he is none other than Cain, her ex-husband. After the divorce three years ago, Cain established himself as a successful businessman. With his black eyes and sexy body, it isn't long before Liz feels his magnetic pull. On the other hand, Cain, wanting to allay his guilt over their past, offers to support Liz's company financially. Little does he know that Liz still holds a secret she meant to tell him about three years ago...
Four years ago Lucy, a world-famous model, vanished from sight. Now she lives in the scorching land of Andalusia, where she devotes herself to nursing an injured professor. And her heart, once frozen by scandal, is beginning to melt in the hot Spanish sun. At the same time, a seemingly menacing man appears. He owns the land she's been living on and is the older brother of Ramon, who has been showing an interest in Lucy. He viciously insults Lucy and offers her money to leave his land, which she firmly rejects. Will they be able to find a way around this impasse?
Kimberley just lost her father. And on top of having no family left, she is still hurting from her recent breakup with her fiance. The only thing left for her is Brancourt, the house she grew up in, but she has to get married in five months if she wants to inherit the house. Why did her father put such an absurd condition in his will? One night, Kimberley meets unknown actor Slade, and desperate to save the house, she tries to make an arrangement with him in exchange for money. But little does she know who Slade really is...
During her spring break, Isabella, a college student from the United States, visited Rome. There she met Antonio when she asked him for directions. Attracted to each other like magnets, they started dating after spending the night together. But the happiest moment of her life ends when Antonio dumps her without any explanation. That's when Giovanni, Antonio's older brother, volunteers his moral support to Isabella. While comforting her, he offers her a drink and suddenly Isabella finds herself caught between two brothers and accused of cheating! How is Isabella ever to win back Antonio's love?
Having grown up in an orphanage, Kate Oakley is afraid of love and she always puts her job first. One day, she receives sad news that her best friend, who also grew up in the orphanage, was in an accident and died, leaving her baby behind. Without hesitation Kate decides to adopt the orphaned boy, but raising a baby while running a company isn't so easy. She decides to hire the babysitter recommended by her friend. And when he shows up at her door, he turns out to be absolutely gorgeous! But Kate has yet to learn who this Rick Evans really is...and why he is there.
With her sharp sense of humor, Heather provides relationship counseling via her call-in radio program. One day when her program gets the top rating of the week, ousting Bud from the top slot, he approaches her with an unbelievable bet. He says that she should be able to get a man if she claims to be such an expert on relationships. Independent Heather doesn't particularly care about her appearance and she has no boyfriend, but she won't back down from Bud...so she accepts the bet! Can she win the man considered the sexiest bachelor and prosecutor in Chicago?
Brooke is left dumbfounded after a conversation with Adam, a man she just met. After the death of her last blood relative, her uncle, Brooke was left without any family. Unable to afford the upkeep on her family's ancestral home, Brooke was forced to sell it. But the new owner, businessman Adam Henderson, comes on to Brooke, telling her that he can buy her expensive gifts. In other words, he thinks he can buy Brooke the same way he bought the mansion!
Wynn just bought a house and is on cloud nine. And her neighbor Zack is sexy enough to have caught her eye. Not being good with men, though, she figures it'll never lead to anything... Then one night in the backyard, Wynn mistakes Zack for a trespasser and tackles him to the ground. With her body sprawled across his magnificent chest and in his arms, the two barely avoid a fiery kiss. But it will never work. What he's looking for is a woman who will make a perfect mother for his daughter. Family-oriented, delicate, sweet-the complete opposite of Wynn! But can the fire that's started up between them be extinguished?
"If it's a rich man you're after, perhaps I might suffice?" Proud Cristina's pride is torn to shreds by the scorn dripping from her ex-lover's proposal. Her family business is on the brink of bankruptcy, and her last chance to save it has come in the form of a party held by the Brazilian elite. She's there to find an investor, but no one's biting. No one, that is, except for Anton Scott-Lee-the president of one of the biggest banks in the world and Cristina's ex. He's held a grudge ever since they broke up. Now that she's come crawling back, he has his revenge. But he doesn't know the true reason Cristina tore his heart to shreds six years ago...
Wealthy business tycoon Nick has a proposal for Sasha Blake, and when she hears it, she can't believe her ears. If he doesn't get married soon, his father will sell the house his family has called home for generations...and he wants Sasha to enter into a marriage of convenience so he won't have to lose it. She answers his proposal with a swift, indignant rejection...until her parents beg her to marry Nick in a last-ditch effort to save the Blake family business. Now she's left with no choice but to tell Nick she'll marry him after all. There's just one problem: he was her first kiss seven years ago, and she's been saving herself for marriage ever since...but she can't let him know that!
Ruby, the youngest and most inexperienced of her sisters, went to a party solo one night where she met a very handsome man, Sander. She ended up going to bed with him. But the following morning, he totally changed his attitude toward her and kicked her out of his room. Six years have passed. The only thing that gives her life purpose is her twin sons. Out of nowhere, Sander appears and tries to take the children away from her, forcing her to make an bold proposition in order to spite this wealthy man!
Ella is shocked to find out that her older brother has borrowed a huge amount of money from Zarif. Who's Zarif? He's the king of the desert country Vashir and someone who just happened to propose to Ella three years earlier. Ella loved him, but after realizing that he just wanted a physical relationship to create an heir, she turned him down. After her father's business received a bankruptcy notice, Ella's mother collapsed. Feeling disgraced and humiliated, Ella goes back to Zarif for help, but he has one condition...a limited-time love affair! In order to preserve the king's image, the two pretend to be married for a year. Is this Zarif's revenge for her rejecting his proposal?
Carolena, who lost her fiance in a tragedy seven years ago, refuses to step forth into a new love because of her intense feelings of guilt. But when she visits her best friend, who married into the Gemelli royal family, she meets charismatic, charming Crown Prince Valentino and falls in love with him at first sight. She had heard he was the world's most popular royal bachelor and that he had a long, sensational history with women, but he turns out to be an intellectual man with a strong sense of justice. Still, falling in love with an already engaged crown prince would be absurd. Not that that makes it any easier for Carolena to deny his passionate seduction...
Ella is shocked to find out that her older brother has borrowed a huge amount of money from Zarif. Who's Zarif? He's the king of the desert country Vashir and someone who just happened to propose to Ella three years earlier. Ella loved him, but after realizing that he just wanted a physical relationship to create an heir, she turned him down. After her father's business received a bankruptcy notice, Ella's mother collapsed. Disgraced and humiliated, Ella goes back to Zarif for help, but he has one condition...a limited time love affair! In order to preserve the king's image, the two pretend to be married for a year. Is this Zarif's revenge for her rejecting his proposal?
After Callie lost her beloved husband, she shut herself away inside her beachside house. Concerned, her husband's friend Brock came to visit her to see how she was doing. Her husband, who was in the US Marines, often wrote about him in the letters he sent from the battlefield. Brock was said to be a hero, someone they called "Dark Angel." Brock encouraged Callie every day and brought her back out into the world. As she spent more time with the sexy yet kind angel, Callie began feeling passion in her once-empty heart. If they touched, even a little bit, she might forget discretion...
Freya became part of the Falcon family after her mother married Amos. So, when she is dumped by her fiance right before her wedding, her stepbrother, Jackson, comes to rescue her. He whisks her away from the church and kindly consoles her. Freya used to be attracted to him, but knowing he sees her as a sister, she had to seal away her feelings for him. When his kindness reignites her feelings, she learns the unbelievable truth. It was Jackson who ruined her wedding!
Harriet Carmichael moved to Ireland when she inherited an estate there from a distant relative. When one of her horses escapes and she ventures onto the land of the neighboring mansion to try to capture it, she meets the attractive, wealthy Rafael. He's the owner of the mansion, and he's accustomed to women bending over backward for him, yet Harriet's unpretentious manner intrigues him. Harriet, on the other hand, was recently dumped by her fiance and doesn't have much confidence with men. She has no idea that she's sparked Rafael's interest!
Rafael Flynn is so wealthy that men and women are at his beck and call, but he is drawn to Harriet for the way that she stands her ground with him. He's always said he doesn't want to get emotionally involved with women, but his actions seem to say otherwise. It hasn't been long since Harriet's fiance left her, and yet her mother criticizes her harshly for still feeling upset. Sad and hurt, Harriet turns to Rafael when he offers her consolation. And even though she knows the relationship is only a physical one and that Rafael will leave once he's tired of her, Harriet can almost believe his love is real.
He was just the man she'd been looking for! Since the moment children's book author Jack met Mathias at a company party, she couldn't resist her urge to sketch him. Mathias showed up just as Jack was trying to come up with the image for the dragon to be featured in her book. His dignified demeanor made him the perfect match for what she had imagined. While Jack is trying not to get caught up in Mathias's dangerous appeal and steamy approach, she finds herself captivated by his deep green eyes. Maybe she'd have been more cautious still if she'd known about his intentions...
Lee despairs that she'll never meet the right man, since she seems to have a knack for dating all the wrong men. But maybe she doesn't need to meet Mr. Right-maybe she's already met him. Trevor has been her best friend since their college days, and Lee thinks he could be her perfect partner. But she'll need more than a best friend-she'll need sexual chemistry, too! To see if it could work, Lee proposes that she and Trevor become friends with benefits. He resists the idea at first, but eventually he caves and sleeps with her. Are these two friends the perfect match, or have they staked their friendship on a fleeting dream?
Zacharo is a fashion house run by three sisters. Lily, who designs clothes for the line, is aghast when she discovers that her work has been stolen by another label. Who did it and how? She gets herself a job at the company in question as part of an undercover investigation and starts working as the CEO's secretary. Her boss, Nigel, must protect his family's long-established company and devotes himself to it. Lily wonders just how far he'd go to secure his company's future, and yet somehow she still finds herself inexorably attracted to her handsome competitor.
Irene saw that, despite their openness with men, her mother and sister remained unfulfilled. Because of that, she decided to keep her virginity until she met and married the man she loved. But the first moment she sees Sharif at her friend's wedding reception, that resolve is shaken. Sharif, a rumored playboy and the emir of a desert country, is beautiful and arrogant, and he easily seduces a kiss from the innocent Irene. But when he tries his usual tactics to persuade her to come into his bed, Irene rejects him. Irene's resistance only makes Sharif's passion and interest grow stronger... Will these two strangers from different worlds be able to find a world of happiness all their own?
Newbie reporter Tess is in charge of writing the movie column for her paper. She meets Mike, the movie critic from her rival paper, by chance at the movie theater. A former star reporter, Mike acts like Tess is a spoiled princess because she's from a wealthy family, and every time he sees her, he makes fun of her and half-jokingly hits on her. This day is no different, but Tess loses her patience with Mike's teasing. She challenges him to a wager to see which of them can get published on the front page first. And so begins a passionate battle between reporters. They have no idea that a different kind of passionate destiny is in store for them, too!
Five years ago, nineteen-year-old Kate nearly drowned in the ocean when she was saved by a handsome man named Jack. She fell in love with the man who kindly looked after her, and she thought he felt the same way until she learned that he was her sister's former boyfriend, the same man who drove her to suicide. Their fleeting love quickly turned to hatred. Now Jack, having become a prominent surgeon, has once again appeared before her eyes. Experiencing the same feelings as on that fateful day, Kate is disturbed. Their two paths were never supposed to cross again...
Bidding in a bachelor auction for charity, Cally wins a sexy tycoon named Blake in exchange for her generous donation. Yet despite his jaw-droppingly good looks, Cally, who grew up in an imperfect family, shows no interest in love or marriage, and she plans to cut ties with him as soon as they fulfill the conditions of the auction. Blake, driven by curiosity about Cally's inner self, proposes a further condition. Cornered by Blake's approach, Cally accepts his bet, even though the stakes are high... If she loses, she'll become his slave for a day and have to do whatever he wants!
Molly, who works in marketing, has been secretly in love with her boss, Jack, for the past four years and often imagines herself as his bride. One day, while at a marketing department launch party, Jack invites her to dance. She ecstatically agrees, but just then, she is caught up in a sudden fight between two other guests and falls and hits her head. When Molly wakes up at her beloved Jack's house, she believes that she's his wife!
Lisane attends a lively party with her lover, Zac. He is a skilled lawyer and millionaire with a magnetic charm. Other women are always pursuing him. And every time she sees them on his tail, Lisane is reminded that she and Zac have made no promises to each other, that nothing ensures Zac will stay at her side. A couple of weeks later, she's both elated and anxious to learn that she's pregnant with Zac's child. But that same day she sees something in the newspaper that makes her heart stutter-it's an announcement of Zac's engagement to another woman!