"I object to this marriage!" Erin shivered as the sound of that voice echoed through the wedding chapel. Dimitri Makarov! There are two reasons this handsome Russian businessman is so well-known. The first is his unparalleled business acumen, and the second is his scandalous behavior. Beautiful women, gambling, rebellious behavior-he has a taste for danger and has spent his life gravitating toward it. Erin used to work as his secretary and ultimately ended up spending a night with him. He said it was a horrible mistake, so when she discovered she was pregnant with his child, she disappeared without telling him. Now, seven years later, he's appeared again, this time at her wedding ceremony!
Cam, a reporter who leaps into danger and has a reputation as a playboy, returns to Spain for the first time in six months. When he arrives at his villa with a beautiful woman in tow, a quiet widow appears in front of him. Widowed Liz, who's in charge of managing the villa's garden, isn't Cam's type, but he can't get her out of his mind. When she cries at the memory of her late husband, it shocks him. Is there even one woman who would cry for Cam? He realizes he wants a loyal partner. He'll even give up his playboy ways to win one!
During a blizzard, Rhea's car slips on the ice and crashes. And who should come to save her but ultrapopular actor Sean Gallagher! The two of them take refuge in Sean's cottage but are trapped inside by the snow. Is she dreaming? She can't believe that she's alone and under the same roof as him...or that he's kissed her! But when Rhea responds with a passionate kiss of her own, Sean accuses her, out of nowhere, of being the sort of woman who toys with a man's affections before leaving him for her next conquest!
With a baby in her arms, Marian finally arrives at Bellfield Hall. There are terrible rumors about the master of the mansion, Heywood Denshaw. They say that, as the despot of the town, he snatched the manor and the mill away from the person who was supposed to inherit them. When she finally arrives, the master and housekeeper come out together. Marian is captivated by his eyes-they're as cold as the winter sky. Yet Marian must somehow get him to give her a job!
Jeanie works as a housekeeper at the castle of widowed Lady Eileen, the grandmother of her deceased husband. But when Eileen passes away, an unexpected will is found. Unless Alasdair, the current earl, and Jeanie get married, neither will inherit the castle or the estate. Alasdair is infuriated by the impossible will that says that he is to marry the widow of his despicable cousin. But to maintain the financial empire that his family has controlled for generations, he has no choice but to suggest to Jeanie that they become husband and wife, if only in name, for one year...
Princess Alessia of Florence had been asked to entertain an investor whom she would pick up from the airport and bring to her family-owned vineyard. But she'd waited for hours and he still hadn't shown up. Angry, she decided to leave, but as soon as she started her car, she crashed into a Ferrari. The man who got out of the car and began arguing with her turned out to be Nicolo, the investor she had been waiting for. In spite of their rocky start, Alessia found herself attracted to his sophisticated bearing. But she knew she shouldn't fall for him-after all, he was in the mafia!
Vere Tolladine, a successful businessman, needed help. He'd been taking care of his late brother's wife and her children and couldn't keep doing it alone. So Fabienne became his live-in nanny. Vere is unfailingly kind to everyone...except Fabienne! She can't understand why Vere treats her differently, but she can't stop thinking about him. Fabienne has conflicting feelings about Vere that become even more complicated when she realizes that Vere is in love with his sister-in-law...
Nurse Emily knew that popular surgeon Professor Romeijn had called her a fat, red radish. And she was disappointed that the man would think of her so uncharitably. But when Emily was ditched by her date at a party, Romeijn showed up and escorted her home. Emily started to open up to him, which was when he asked her something most unexpected.
On a stormy night Jacqui's estranged husband, Nate, suddenly comes knocking on the door of her veterinary clinic and home-and he's running a high fever. His car broke down, forcing him to walk to her clinic, so Jacqui has no choice but to let him in. In his delirious state, Nate says he wants his wife back. He's now a billionaire businessman and his charm has only increased with time. But they can't just rewind the past ten years. They still want different things. The next morning, Nate suggests a temporary reconciliation, but Jacqui can't help but wonder if it's only for business reasons...
Belvia has always looked out for her shy twin sister, Josy... Then, one day, her father invites Latham Tavenner, a ruthless financial mogul who's looking for help with his struggling business, over for dinner. Handsome Latham takes an interest in Josy, but all he offers Belvia is a cold stare. Bel is so frustrated by the time dinner is over, she blurts out an audacious lie...but now Latham thinks she's a reckless woman who's having an affair. Meanwhile Bel is doing all she can to protect Josy. She knows Latham's bad opinion of her shouldn't hurt this much, but it still stings.
Helen, who lost her parents when she was young, was raised by her aunt. However, her aunt's business has gone bankrupt and now they're desperate. They receive an invitation from Earl Bridgemere, the patriarch of Aunt Bella's family, to his annual Christmas party. Aunt Bella usually declines, but she has no choice this year. The two decide to attend the party to ask the earl for help, but upon their arrival Aunt Bella collapses. Helen seeks assistance from an attendant...who turns out to be Earl Bridgemere himself!
After her sister and mother died of brain cancer, Imogen noticed she was experiencing the same symptoms they did. So she prepares for her death and flies to Paris to spend her last days in luxury. There she attends a high-class party and meets a Frenchman named Thierry. The two hit it off and spend a passionate two weeks together. On her way home, though, Imogen learns she is pregnant. What a dreadful turn of events... She explains the situation to Thierry, but his reaction is beyond anything she expected!
Meg is a mountain-rescue medic and a single mother who lives with her son, Jamie. Ever since a bitter experience with her ex, she's avoided romance and lived for her family and work. But Dino, who can't control his attraction to Meg, invites her to a party. Meg, hesitant to trust the playboy, tries to refuse him, but she can't resist her sensual instincts!
Abby's been in love with her boss, Cade, ever since she became his assistant. Unfortunately, Cade has decided to marry a woman he doesn't love in order to strengthen a merger between their companies. Worst of all, Cade has left it to Abby to plan their entire wedding. Heartbroken and lost, Abby decides to drink her problems away at a bar...until Cade comes to get her. Now, with her whole world coming down around her, Abby doesn't know what else to do but try to show Cade what true love is.
Flora, a fashion model on the way to a shoot in the Caribbean, is shocked when she learns the name of the man who owns the island-Ross Duncan Whitney, her husband! He walked out on her years ago. She never expected to run into Ross in a place like this! To make matters worse, her current contract requires that she be single. Even after living apart for so long, Flora and Ross are still technically married. If their secret gets out, the breach of contract will mean more than just the loss of a job... But when she begs Ross to keep quiet about it, he responds by kissing her!
Natasha has lost all her clients but found a job as a publicist for Verona tourism. A group of high-class hotel owners are working together to spread news about the historical city's charms around the world. Natasha goes to Verona to start a new life, but a completely unexpected partner is waiting for her-Mario! Two years ago, they were passionately in love, but he betrayed her. Now he's the president of the hotel owners' group with whom she must work. Natasha can't believe his gall when he tells her that he won't forgive her if she disappears from his life a second time!
When Gina woke up, she found herself naked in a strange hotel room. Then a man came out of the bathroom wearing nothing but a towel-it was the vice president of her company, Gerrick! He asked her why she was embarrassed, but as he kissed her, she still couldn't remember anything. There was a wedding ring on her ring finger. She remembered having drinks with him at a bar. Did they get so wrapped up in passion that they eloped in Las Vegas? Gina was already in a panic, but then she received word her father had collapsed... Could her life get any more out of control?
Upright and serious secretary Emily is always being confronted with her handsome boss's woman troubles. Not only is Kadir a talented businessman who regularly travels around the world, he's also the prince of a bountiful desert kingdom. And he has a prodigious talent for attracting women. One day, after Kadir receives an emergency message from his home country, he makes an outrageous request: he'll pay Emily a huge sum if she pretends to be his horrible wife! Just what does he have planned?
Natalie is a wedding planner who doesn't believe in love. As she's coordinating a wedding for her good friend, she reunites with Colin, who has become a wealthy businessman, for the first time in fourteen years. He holds a special place in her memories as her first crush. Taken with his warm, dazzling smile, she invites him out to dinner, only to be promptly refused! However, several days later Colin requests that she plan his younger sister's wedding. But this time, why is he the one who is pursuing her?
Lindy can't believe she ended up sleeping with Shane, her boss! She's his personal secretary and last night was his birthday party-in a drunken state, he opened up to her about his crippling feelings of loneliness and isolation, and she fell for him hard. But this morning, after she ran out of his bedroom and awkwardly ran into him again at work, Shane comes to her with a most perplexing request: he wants her to find the woman he just slept with! He doesn't seem to remember a thing!
It's been two years since Lexie left her Greek millionaire husband, Xenon. She's been working as a jewelry designer, and just as the wounds in her heart had finally begun to heal, Xenon appears on her doorstep. Lexie's younger brother is deep in debt and has come to Xenon for help. Xenon has a familiar smug smile on his handsome face as he makes Lexie a deal. He'll help her younger brother...if she'll come back to him. After the way he shut her out two years ago, what could he possibly be thinking now?
Josie's still a virgin and she's reluctant to go to her school reunion because she knows her spiteful classmate will laugh at her if she goes alone. A friend suggests Josie hire an escort for the night, and that's just what she does. The escort who arrives at her door is Callum, a man so handsome he seems to have stepped out of a dream. He plays the part of her boyfriend perfectly and Josie finds herself drawn to him. When they return from the reunion, Josie's house has been burgled! Which is why Callum agrees to stay the night at her house...just to be safe.
At her temping job Maya must deal with sexual harassment from her boss-and when she's in danger of being assaulted at a party, popular playwright Blaise Walker comes to the rescue. He's every woman's dream and he even asked her out! But Maya knows she mustn't fall for those eyes of his! She turns down Blaise's offer and quits her job. That's when Blaise offers her a new job at his country villa-he proposes that she be his writing assistant for a few weeks!
Anna was once the companion of the Earl of Lawton's daughter. She grew up beside her and they received the same education...until she was suddenly relieved of her duties and introduced to her future employer-Lord Brentmore. Lord Brentmore had lost his wife and was now looking for a family tutor. He was doubtful of Anna's usefulness but hired her regardless. A handsome but mysterious lord, a cold servant, an air of mystery... Anna's struggle has begun!
Photographer Daisy worked a wedding at an earl's castle, but by the time she was ready to leave, her car was completely snowed in! She had only until midnight to upload the day's photos and didn't know how she'd be able to pull it off now. Luckily a man showed up and invited Daisy into the castle. Once she successfully uploaded the photos, she noticed how very attractive the man who helped her was. They proceeded to spend a dreamy night together, but they didn't yet know how that night would change their destiny...
Ursula's boss, Ross, invites her to his daughter Katie's birthday party one weekend, saying Katie really likes Ursula and insisted she be there. But this just throws Ursula's heart into chaos. Ursula has had feelings for Ross for a long time now, but she knows he's married. Ursula makes up her mind to keep things strictly professional and agrees to attend the party. But while everyone else is having a great time, Ursula learns just how unhappy Ross's marriage really is.
In the five years since Lady Mariah Beecham, the widowed Countess of Carlisle, lost her husband, rumors have proliferated throughout society about how she's used her great beauty to take on a string of lovers. Believing those rumors, Darian Hunter, the Duke of Wolfingham, approached Mariah to ask her to leave his younger brother alone. The rumors are, however, baseless-Lady Mariah has never truly been loved by any man. Unable to endure his rebuke, she attempts to push him aside, but just then, the duke faints in her arms!
Nella's life hasn't been easy, but now she's the sister of a Congressional candidate. On the night of a significant party, attended by all the most important people, a man called Raul accuses Nella of marriage fraud and says she's a criminal. Full of rage, hazel-eyed Raul shows her the marriage certificate belonging to his younger brother and Nella. To prove her innocence, Nella agrees to meet Raul's brother at a cottage. But his brother never comes and she's locked up in a room instead. How will Nella find her way out of this situation?
Claire is devastated when she loses the custody battle over her two-year-old nephew in court. She's raised him in her late sister's place, but now she has to hand him over to wealthy ranch owner Logan Pierce, the brother of her sister's husband. Claire begs him to let her stay with her nephew...at least until he gets used to his new home. But Logan insists that the only way she'll be able to live with her nephew is to marry him. Their loveless marriage begins with coercion, but it has much more in store...
Hattie's been taking care of her late sister's niece, but if she wants to keep doing so, she's going to need help. So she's proposed a fake marriage to her ex, millionaire Luc Cavallo. In order to keep her niece away from her nasty brother-in-law's family, she's lied about having a rich fiance, and now she's going to need to produce one! As Hattie was explaining the situation to him, she was sure Luc would say no, but to her surprise, he accepted her proposal. He even asked her and Deedee to move in with him. All of her wishes immediately came true, yet her mind fluctuated between elation and doubt-has Hattie made a deal with a devil?
Katie had given up on getting married but still desired a child. Since she lived in a small town where all the men are married, her only hope for having a child was to use a sperm bank. Or it was until tall, handsome Jeremiah moved into town. She gathered up her courage and asked him to help her make a baby. The very next day he agreed to help her, but under one condition-that they get pregnant the old-fashioned way...
There's a reason Keira had decided to never fall in love with anyone. But when she visited India, she couldn't resist the kiss of a handsome stranger...she'd never see him again after all. But when she met her client the next day, she was speechless-it was the very man who'd kissed her. His name was Jay and he belonged to the prestigious family of the maharaja. It was certainly going to be hard for Keira to reestablish her professional image after that kiss. Once they go to Jay's palace, it became clear that he'd gotten entirely the wrong idea about her. Now what will she do?
Twenty-year-old Eva is the princess of Kyonos, a small island country in the Aegean Sea. Her dreams aren't big: she just wants a life of wedded bliss with a man who loves her for who she is. But life isn't so simple for princesses and it seems her dream will never come true. Her father has arranged for her to marry a man for political gain. But six months before the wedding is to take place, Eva's got a new bodyguard-Makhail Nabatov, a man whose cool, calm demeanor never cracks and whose emotions never show on his chiseled face. He's beginning to awaken feelings inside Eva's heart that she herself doesn't understand...
After she was betrayed by her business partner and lover, Mariel left France and returned home to Australia. At a party there, she runs into Dane, her childhood friend and first love. He's a wealthy entrepreneur now, and the media is calling him this year's most eligible bachelor. When they meet again, he sets Mariel's heart on fire, and a flood of emotions from her youth comes rushing back. But Dane had a traumatic childhood and is determined never to marry or have kids... Mariel knows she can't fall for him. But then Dane comes up with a wild proposal and asks if she'll agree to be his lover on a contract basis!
Rico, the man who was accused of assaulting her sister, is back... When Danielle's mother passed away five years ago, Rico was there to comfort her. She was always attracted to him...until that incident. Rico now confesses to the confused Danielle, "I want to restore my damaged reputation. I am requesting my stock returned and the position of CEO." Danielle cannot understand where this is coming from, until her father reveals that her sister changed her testimony. Does that mean Rico was innocent? This is only the beginning of Rico's plan for revenge...
Glenna's older sister drowned at sea when they were on vacation in Florida ten years ago, and Glenna knew that the man involved had a tattoo of the legendary moon bird on his wrist. Now Glenna is working as a famous photographer's assistant, and she's back at the same spot in Florida for a shoot. She's determined to find out the truth of what happened to her sister while she's there. But there are three men with the moon bird tattoo, and they're all brothers! One of them approaches her while she's scouting a location... Was he the one, or was it one of his brothers? Glenna can feel her heart pounding. She knows she shouldn't fall for him...yet he's so hard to resist!
When her doctor tells Meg she might not be able to bear a child in the future, she's shocked. She's always dreamed about building her happy family. Feeling the pressure to get pregnant now, she asks her childhood best friend, Ben, if he will offer his sperm. She can't think of anyone else she'd rather ask. She loves him, after all. She hasn't confessed her love to him, though, afraid it would ruin their friendship. Unaware of her feelings, Ben puts harsh conditions on his compliance, almost extinguishing her secret love of him!
Jade has had it with her job working for a tabloid paper and visits Greece to rest her soul. There she runs into an attractive man with a great smile. Their attraction to one another is so strong that they promise to get married before they really know much about each other. She bumps into him again in London. He looks different in an expensive business suit, and she learns that he's Constantine Sioulas, the owner of the world's largest shipping company! The moment he sees her, he yells at her with contempt in his eyes. Their romantic story has been published in a tabloid paper, and he accuses her of being behind it. How can she convince him that it wasn't her doing?
Alek thinks Elly is after his money! Elly works as a waitress in a high-end hotel. One evening, Alek decided to chat with her, and she enjoyed a brief conversation with the elegant stranger. Upon saying goodbye, she let him give her a farewell kiss, only to be hounded by a tabloid journalist immediately afterward! The next day, when Alek saw their intimate moment plastered all over the front page, he felt trapped and betrayed by Elly, and in anger rushed back to find her...
Sara had been in love with her colleague Ian for the past ten years...until the day he introduced her to his new fiancee. Heartbroken, Sara ran away, back to her hometown, only to discover that her parents are no longer there. Instead she finds a rugged young man, covered in dirt, named Stuart. He's recently moved in down the street, and to Sara's surprise, he treats her like a princess, taking care of her in her time of distress. She falls instantly in love with this tall, muscular, kind stranger, but can he heal the years of loneliness and heartbreak she carries deep inside?