Meredith is shy and self-effacing-even though she's the daughter of an actress, the spotlight just makes her insecure. Still she agrees to participate in her company's charity bachelorette auction to help out a friend. Much to her surprise, she finds herself very much in demand after getting a makeover and a sexy new dress! As the price keeps rising higher, she begins to wonder which bidder will be the man to win her attentions.
Sadie is not happy to run into her ex-fiancee, Nikos. Five years earlier, their union was supposed to end the two families' long-running rivalry. However, just before the wedding, Sadie's family business failed, everything went to shambles and now she and her family are about to be kicked out of their house-a property owned by Nikos. In order to protect her agoraphobic mother and her little brother, Sadie is on a mission to beg Nikos to allow her family to keep the house.But what will Nikos ask in return?
Despite her better judgment, Angie, a secretary, has unrequited feelings for her boss, Lucius, who is known by his employees as "the Devil." Concealing these feelings, she buries herself in her work as his subordinate. But when Angie discovers the "Apprentice Bride Program" Lucius has commissioned to help him search for a wife, she approaches the program's creator to ask that the results be rigged so that she will be put forth as Lucius's perfect apprentice bride!
Ana, a New York lawyer, is on her way to Rome. Her father has asked her to go, saying that the infamous Prince Draco Vatenti has been using her mother's property illegally. Unfortunately, she is unable to get a first-class seat at the airport, but she sees a man who has taken two of them for himself. Ana asks him give up one of his seats, but this man is as infuriating as he is stylish and sexy! He refuses Ana's plea, saying he has no interest in sitting next to the likes of her...then he suddenly kisses her! Just who does this bully think he is?
Wendy Isaac is a bit eccentric. She defies her rich father and dances to the beat of her own drum. Realizing he's unlikely to ever marry her off, Gower Isaac closes a business arrangement with Joshua Raven on the condition that Joshua marry Wendy. Joshua tries to keep his distance so he won't hurt Wendy if the deal falls through, but he can't stop Wendy from falling for him. Her passion rouses his own, and for the first time he experiences love. Now all he has to do to ensure a happy marriage is prevent Wendy from ever knowing about Gower's arrangement!
Nell is looking for her missing brother, and she has taken a job serving the princess of Merklestein so she can accompany her on the long voyage to the isle of Antigua. That is where her brother went missing, and that is where she hopes to find him. Nell has to put up with many selfish demands from the princess before she can secure a place on the voyage, but a twist of fate sees the ship leave port with Nell and Olga, the princess's sister's secretary...and without the princess. Olga then coaxes Nell to pretend to be the princess! Will Nell be able to keep up the ruse during the two-week voyage?
Isabella lost her parents and raised her younger brother, but it wasn't easy-she went bankrupt taking care of the two of them and wound up destitute. She was running out of options when Jeremy, a handsome millionaire, reached out to her. He offered to support Isabella financially if she would become his mistress. In desperation, and despite the cold look on his face, Isabella accepted his terms... But when the time comes, will she be able to hold up her end of the deal?
Pippa has been a guest at the Alderly estate for a long while, ever since her father went missing. With few apparent prospects, she does her best not to be a burden on Lady Alderly and those around her. Meanwhile, Hermione, the young lady of the house, waits for Dominic Alderly to return from the war so they can be wed. But when Dominic returns, his war wounds horrify everyone who has been waiting for him. The only one who doesn't seem to mind them is the compassionate Pippa, whose beauty and kindness quickly capture Dominic's heart.
When Daisy happens to run into her first love, a young and charismatic entrepreneur named Justice, she learns that he has lost some of his memories to an accident...so the two of them try to make up for lost time by sharing a night of passion. Soon afterward, however, Justice recovers some of his memories and accuses Daisy of being a thieving seductress! He goes on to tell her exactly what tore them apart the first time around. Wracked by guilt, Daisy goes crying into the night-she'll never be able to get Justice out of her heart.
Joe owns a chain of steak restaurants. One day, he finds Marley dealing with car trouble in the middle of a snow storm and helps her out. She invites him into her house, and the two of them find that they like each other. Unfortunately, they are both dealing with childhood traumas that keep their relationship from going any further. When Joe finds out that Marley is a big name in the child psychology community, he seeks her help with a summer camp he runs. Will this give them the chance they need to get closer, or will they stay stuck right where they are?
After leaving her husband, Antonio, Claire has lived apart from him for five years. Determined to move on with her life, Claire finally files for divorce. When they were younger, they got married after she became pregnant, but after Claire miscarried, their relationship grew cold, and their life together lasted only a year. Not accepting the filing sent to him by Claire's lawyer, Antonio demands to meet her face-to-face. Claire reluctantly agrees, and she is absolutely shocked by Antonio's conditions for their divorce!
Samantha is the secretary of Guy, an extraordinarily handsome and sexy CEO. Although she longs for a day when her hidden feelings for him will finally be recognized, he only dates girls who are her complete opposite-he's never once noticed her. No longer able to take it, Samantha turns in her resignation. However, at that moment Guy's father is hospitalized. Worried about losing his only remaining blood relative, he asks Samantha to find him a woman who will bear his child and who won't expect marriage. And Samantha impulsively announces that she is the woman he seeks!
Yancie, a driver for a large company, notices that she is nearly out of gas one day when she's out in one of the company cars. Panicking, she cuts across another lane of traffic to refuel. At that moment, a horn blares, and she nearly collides with a luxury car. A man exits the car to accuse her of reckless driving, but a startled Yancie gets angry herself and calls him a "noisy old man"! The next day, when she's called into the president's office at work, she's prepared to be upbraided. But she isn't prepared to come face-to-face with the same noisy man!
After Shannon's husband, Alan, who was twenty-five years her senior, contracted a terminal illness, rumors began to circulate that she's a fortune hunter who married him for his money. But nothing could be further from the truth; she loves him with all her heart. Just before he passes, he urges her to go to his business partner, Jase Pembrooke, and marry him. Handsome, charming and brimming with confidence, Jase is certainly the sort of man a woman could fall for, but Shannon is too faithful to Alan to even think of pursuing a new romance. Still, after she inherits Alan's half of the company, Shannon and Jase become comanagers...and true love begins to bloom between them...
While house-sitting in a high-class apartment, Bethany is so mesmerized by an expensive dress she discovers in the closet that she tries it on without permission. Just then, she hears a knock on the front door. What should she do? There's no way that the owner is back already... She timidly opens the door to find a shockingly handsome man standing there. Cristiano, emperor of the business world, mistakes Bethany for the wealthy owner of the apartment. Despite knowing his mistake, Bethany gives in to his seduction and turns her body over to him-knowing all the while that it's only a matter of time before he discovers her deception!
Kaz, abandoned by her family and unable to attend school, makes up a new name and resume in order to get a job. She refuses to give up and succeeds by pretending to be a self-assured, coolheaded woman...even if she is a twenty-eight-year-old virgin. Her friends laugh at her, but Kaz doesn't care. When she visits a house she inherited from her late aunt, she encounters a reliable man named Galem, who makes her heart beat fast. And, underneath her independent facade, she really wants someone to know her true self... But if she knew Galem was trying to take her house for himself, would she feel the same way?
Maya, who grew up an orphan, married the first son of the Sabbatini family, a wealthy hotel tycoon, but her failure to give him a successor has created a divide between her and the rest of his family. Five years later, she left the marriage...and Giorgio didn't even try to stop her. Months afterward, she bumped into him again, and their passions led to one last encounter... Six month after that, she found out that she's finally pregnant...but, for the child's sake, she won't let that cold family know about it!
While working as a house cleaner, Annie gets to know a reclusive new client. He's handsome and young and fit, but he's also very unfriendly. When she hears a rumor that he used to be a pilot but had to stop flying because of a life-threatening accident, she begins to understand him better and she starts to hope that she can make him smile again.
Bella, the daughter of a wealthy family, disgraced the Balfour name and was banished to the desert as punishment. She had lived in the city and led an exciting life-she couldn't bear the uncivilized life of the desert camp, so she decided to escape to a nearby village... Sheikh Zafiq, the country's ruler, was headed to the desert for his yearly week of relaxation and meditation when he rescues a woman who has collapsed in his path. What will happen to these opposites who met in the middle of the desert? What will happen when they start living in an oasis together under the same roof?
Carlee made up her mind to have her late husband's baby through artificial insemination. But then the sperm bank tells her there has been a mix-up-the sperm used to impregnate her actually belongs to Hal Ward, a world-famous race-car driver who is also an heir to a prominent family. So now Carlee is pregnant with the baby of a man she's never met! She's further tested when a representative of the Ward family comes to say that, as the child will be a successor to the estate, she is advised to marry Hal. Even though the proposal is outrageous, she agrees to visit the manor. There she meets Hal, a very attractive man, except he doesn't seem to be interested in the marriage they're proposing at all!
Tess and Rafe are childhood friends. They've never really seen each other as more than that in the past (well, almost never). When Tess returned to her hometown as a single parent, Rafe, despite being very surprised, was there to support the two of them as a friend. Until, one night, everything changes. A distraught Tess has been told that her son may be taken away from her, and Rafe is there to comfort her. And in doing so he comes to the realization that he wants to be more than just friends. Can he be the man Tess and her child deserve?
Allegra lost her newborn baby and barely held on to her own life in a car accident. She spent six months in England for treatment without regaining any recollections of the accident, but her husband, Miguel, never came to visit her, maybe because he was too busy managing his business empire based in Mexico. She returns to Mexico to find out what really happened to her only to have Miguel accuse her of cheating on him. And without her memories, how is she to defend herself?
Interior designer Katie is working at Count Giovanni's estate in Tuscany. Since losing his wife a few years ago, the count has gained a reputation as a philanderer. But since Katie isn't interested in workplace romantic entanglements, she decides his personal life is no business of hers. Until he kisses her at a party! Just one kiss is enough to entrance her, but will it be enough to change her life?
Billionaire Rocco D'Angelo suddenly appears in front of Emma, a widowed single mother raising her daughter. He wants to take his grandmother, who's been living alone, back to Italy with him, so he asks Emma to join them as her private nurse...and he's ready to pay her handsomely to do it! Lavished with his dangerous charm, Emma is tempted to enjoy this privileged lifestyle as if she were a D'Angelo herself. But she can't let herself take it seriously. Because Rocco's been clear from the very beginning-he doesn't believe in love or marriage...
When Caitlin's father dies, he doesn't leave her a thing-except for a job at his company. But after repeated failures at work, she learns that the working world isn't as easy as the pampered life of luxury she once enjoyed. Caitlin's boss, Joe, spends quite a bit of time yelling at her, yet he can't help growing fond of her. One day Caitlin goes to Joe's office to complain after a coworker calls her a dumb blonde, but instead of resolving the problem, Joe takes her in his arms and kisses her!
Helen and her daughter's ferry docks at a small Greek island where she hopes to reconcile with her father, who separated from the family years before. She's aghast when the man who shows up to welcome her turns out to be Milos Stephanides, the very man who seduced her and threw her away when she was just a teenager! In the past, she never found it in herself to tell him she was pregnant with his baby. After all, Milos was married! He's the last man Helen wants to see. But with his piercing gaze, she feels the burning passion they once shared stirring again...
Celia, an environmental designer, is requested for a job in the Sultanate of Oman. Shockingly, her client is Sheikh Salim, her ex-lover who unexpectedly left her four years ago. Celia balks, but before long, Salim's passionate zeal for his work-the redevelopment of a lost city that has slept under the sands for centuries into a resort-wins her over and she accepts the job. Work goes smoothly, but just as she did four years ago, Celia finds herself unable to resist Salim's charms. And there's something she's never told him: she has a daughter...his daughter!
Lily came to Rome at her brother's invitation. She was escorted from the airport to the palace, but her brother wasn't there. Instead she found the beautiful Count Dmitri Scarletti, the stuff of classical Greek sculpture! With cold eyes, he looked at Lily and told her that his sister and her brother had eloped. What's more, he plans to hold her at the palace until her brother brings his sister back to him. All of the servants are on vacation, and Lily is alone in this huge palace with the dangerous Dmitri...
When she was only eighteen years old, she fell in love with the then-struggling artist Rafael Alejandro while vacationing in Paris. She's never confessed it to her friends, but before her return home, she married him! There are only three months left until the end of their five-year separation period, but that means, for the time being, she and the now-famous Rafael are still technically a married couple...
For just one night, shy Tina wishes she could be a woman who is confident and attractive. So when she meets a devilishly handsome man at Carnival in Venice, she casts caution to the wind and gives her virginity to him. They remain masked and spend an enchanted night together. But the very next morning when Tina peeks underneath his mask while he sleeps, she discovers her brother's rival-Nico! Shocked by the irony of fate, she runs away without a word only to find, two months later, that she is carrying his baby!
Her father's research project can only be completed with photographs of the frieze in the desert, and the only way she can get there is by joining Fraser Mallory's survey expedition. However, there are two problems: her father and Fraser had a falling out with each other a long time ago, and Fraser never works with women. But there is a way to solve both problems at once-she'll become "Corey" and pass herself off as a man!
Lucas's secretary, Emma, drove through heavy snow to deliver documents to her boss, but when she arrived, Lucas kicked her out. Known for his calm demeanor, it was unlike him to act out... Though, come to think of it, he acted strangely last year on this same day. The weather worsens, and the two find themselves alone in his old castle. Emma is determined to help him deal with the past scars he confided in her and accepts his sudden kiss, followed by a steamy evening together. But will this merely be a single evening of comfort...or the start of something more?
Decima Ross, unmarried at twenty-seven, has resigned herself to the life of a spinster. Her height and spindly figure have made finding a match difficult. Then, in the middle of a snowstorm, she meets Adam Grantham, Viscount Weston. The two are snowed in for days in a hunting lodge, alone but for two servants who are laid up in bed. Although they bond while caring for their servants and the house, Decima parts with no plans to see Adam again. Adam searches for her, but is stopped by his own engagement. The path to love is filled with twists and turns and mismatched partners, but fate will always try to set things right.
Stella Greco's child, Nicky, is the result of artificial insemination. Stella has no intention of ever bringing the anonymous donor, or any father for that matter, into their lives. Unfortunately, the anonymous donor is Vasco Montoya, King of Montmajor, who is eager to seize this chance to continue his family line without being forced into a marriage. He wants his son in Montmajor, and Stella isn't willing to give up her child. To compromise, Vasco invites Stella to work restoring ancient texts in the palace library for a month, so she can see what life would be like for her and Nicky. Neither of them ever expected to fall in love, but then, loving a royal isn't easy.
Isabel stumbles upon an abandoned baby on the beach at dawn. She picks up the baby without any hesitation and flags a car on the road. She asks the driver to take her and the baby to the hospital. After putting the baby in the care of the hospital, she's surprised to know who was driving the car. He's a famous architect, Craig Jaeger! What she knows about him is that he's a stubborn man. She gets agitated after knowing that she forced a man like him to be the driver. Despite her concern, he treats the baby with care. His kindness impacts her heart in a whole different way.
Ali's goal is buying a house to make her mother happy, which is why she became a model-to earn her nest egg. One day, she receives news that her uncle died and left his estate to her! There's one condition she has to meet, which is that she must marry within a month of his death. She decides a marriage of convenience is the answer, so she proposes a deal to window cleaner Jethro. He then gives her a piercing stare, looking totally different from his usual sweet self, and she wonders who he really is.
Christy secretly harbors feelings for Dominic, who has looked out for her ever since she was a little girl. On Valentine's Day when she was seventeen, she offered her virginity to him, but he reacted surprisingly coldly, and cruelly crushed her adolescent feelings. Christy ran away shortly afterward, leaving her hometown behind. It's been eight years since then, and Christy must now return to take care of her mother. She has an unexpected reunion with Dominic, who is working as a doctor in town and who is more charming than ever! His handsome face and strong arms... He's stolen her heart in an instant...again!
Anstey suddenly appears in front of millionaire Cale holding a baby in her arms. Thinking she is after his money, he tries to turn her away, but then she tells him that the child belongs to Cale's younger brother. And she explains that she's not the mother of the child, either; she's taking care of the baby for her best friend. Being unable to go to work because of the newborn has put her in quite a tough spot, and she's come to ask Cale to help her out since he's related to the baby by blood. Cale agrees to assist her, and he takes the two of them to his mother's home. But Cale's mother misunderstands and wrongly assumes the baby is Cale and Anstey's. And now she's making all kind of preparations for their wedding!
One day Savannah, an excellent nanny, is requested for an assignment by her former lover Declan. Seven years ago, he left Savannah to try to make things work with his ex-wife for the sake of his child. However, after divorcing his ex-wife again, he asks Savannah to watch after his child. Unable to refuse his request, she agrees to go on a camping trip with him and his daughter, Jacey. Which sounds like fun, except that Jacey is in the middle of a rebellious phase. How will Savannah deal with this clueless father and his difficult daughter?
After the death of her mother, Izzy finally learns the truth behind her birth. Deep in despair, she is captivated by a man named Roman, and they spend the night together. However, the next morning he disappears, and their brief romance ends there. A year later, the two meet again by coincidence. Izzy is beautiful as always, but she is now carrying a baby in her arms. Roman assumes that after spending the night with him, she went and had another man's baby. And for some reason, he finds he resents her for this. Soon, however, he starts to harbor doubts... Is it just Roman, or does the baby bear more than a passing resemblance to him?