A year ago, Jemma had a passionate night with a man she'd just met. She tries to forget about her mistake and move on, but the guilt won't let her. Jemma is still mourning her late husband and hasn't been able to remove her wedding ring... She tells herself she won't love anybody again. Then one day, she finds out about her father's embezzlement, and the man who can save him is Luke Devetzi, the same man Jemma had her one-night stand with! Luke proposes a resolution be believes will solve all their problems-that is, for Luke and Jemma to get married!
Her father loses their fortune and estate gambling and disappears. The last opponent he lost big to was a nobleman named Develin, and Thea's father even gambled away her dowry. Thea shows up at Develin's home and resolutely offers him a deal. "Please marry me." Can he turn down this sudden proposal? Thea is fraught with unease, but Develin unexpectedly embraces her and steals a kiss. Could they really be together as man and wife, or does a miserable marriage await her?
As the American Revolution gains speed, even in the British-controlled harbor town of Newport, rebels are on the move. Catie, the sole proprietor of Hazard Inn since her husband's death, finds out that her home will be used to house British soldiers. Just before they arrive, she sends her daughter, Belinda, away to keep her safe. As she turns to welcome the soldiers, she comes face-to-face with Anthony Sparhawk, the man who saved her eight years ago. They spent only one night together, but she's never forgotten him. He, on the other hand, doesn't remember her at all, but Catie is still anxious. She has a secret that he must never know-Belinda is actually his daughter!
When Johanna was eighteen years old, she lost her parents in a fire, leaving her all alone in the world. She has since made her home on a ranch in Texas as their resident veterinarian. One day, the grandmother of the ranch owner gives her an astonishing request: as she may not have long left to live, she wants Johanna to take her four dogs across the country to their new owners-together with her grandson, Stone. As it turns out, Stone, CEO of an enormous jewelry company, was the first one with whom Johanna ever fell in love. Now she has to travel alone with him across the country... Can Johanna's heart handle it?
To learn how to make movies, Ella becomes the personal assistant of Italian movie producer Santo Corretti. However, Santo's fame isn't limited to the film industry. He's also the son of a Sicilian noble, and being the arrogant playboy that he is, he can't help trying to seduce Ella with his sweet smile. Ella has sworn to never have a relationship with her boss. However, when Santo summons her one morning, she's shocked to find him in distress. Unsure what happened to his bottomless confidence, she can't help but feel sorry for him-and consoles him with a kiss.
Sheila meets a man named Slade at a swanky party. She's fascinated by his work that takes him all over the world and they spend a passionate night together entwined beneath the moonlight. He takes off at dawn, unknowingly leaving her with a small life growing within her body. Slade isn't the type of guy to want a lifetime relationship or a child, so Sheila decides to not tell him about the pregnancy. She will raise the child on her own. However, when Slade suddenly shows up nine months later and learns that the baby in her belly is his, he proposes to her! Now they're in a huge hurry to have a wedding!
Addie makes a bet with casino king Malachi. "Let's date for a week. If you fall in love with me, you will do as I say." Even though she loses, Malachi, known as the world's most notorious playboy, asks her to marry him. After their wedding, Addie learns that she was just being used for business and runs away. Her husband doesn't contact her again until their fifth anniversary, only to make another bet: "Be my lover for a month, and I'll support your orphanage."
Irish noblewoman Briana is a tomboy who has just left the convent where she's been living for several years. While on the familiar road home, her party is attacked by hostile English soldiers and she is mortally wounded! Keane, a feudal lord, saves her from the brink of death. While Briana recovers in his castle, she is drawn to Keane's kindness, but there is a loneliness that haunts him...
The moment successful lawyer Tullah met rumored playboy Saul Crighton, she could see why women were drawn to him, but she refused to be enraptured by his charm. Just when she thinks she has evaded his grasp, she finds out he's her new boss! Now, in order to stop a poor young girl from falling in love with Saul, she has to pretend to be his lover. What will happen when these two appear as a couple at a masquerade?
Sam is a career-driven woman and the daughter of a governor, with the height and determination to put regular men to shame. When one of her colleagues teases her that she's "not a woman," she makes the decision to find and marry her soul mate. To her surprise, the one to throw a wrench in her plans is her father's right-hand man, Liam. Because just before she leaves for England to find her soul mate, he gives her a passionate goodbye kiss!
Leigh is a reporter who's after a scoop on Prince Maximilian of Schwanstein. While chasing the prince during his trip to Florida, she is involved in a traffic accident. She ends up spending the night at a motel with the man who saved her...and discovers that he's Max! She promptly asks him for an interview, and in exchange she's asked to play the part of his fiancee!
"Please pretend we're married, just for two weeks!" Bianca was sure Adam would agree to do it. He was in love with her, after all...or so she'd thought. His answer? No! Bianca's chest tightened when she saw the boy she'd grown up with go against her wishes for the first time. Is there any way she can change Adam's mind?
Alex is the heiress to a high-class department store. She's working hard to distinguish herself from her parents' success, but when she meets Jack, the manager of a new advertising agency, she instantly dislikes him. He's messy and shameless and tries to seduce her. Alex doubts he's capable of doing the work her family's company requires. Just when Alex decides to report the situation to her father, Jack nails the day's presentation. He's a mystery...and incredibly hot!
For the past few months, Kit has been living in fear, terrified by mysterious threatening letters. When her sister invites her to a ballet to get her out of the house, she finds yet another threatening letter between the pages of her program! Frightened and at her wits' end, Kit impulsively rushes backstage. She sees a swan costume and puts it on to make her escape. While wandering around in the swan costume, Kit is saved by a handsome doctor named Jarod. For the first time in months, she's able to rest easy. It's not long before she falls in love, but she may not be as safe as she thinks...
Rory is spending her birthday alone for the first time since losing her mother when a man named Sebastian, who looks like some sort of noble, appears, saying, "I've come to get you, Princess." And then she learns that she's in an arranged engagement with the crown prince of the neighboring country. Now, in order for her to take up her mantle, Rory must learn how to be a princess from Sebastian. But the more he prepares her to marry another man, the more his kindness and support set her heart aflutter.
Five years ago, Lainey married Gabe. She was deeply in love with him, but once she learned from her mother that he had only married her for her estate, she decided to run away. After her mother's death, she realized she'd made a terrible mistake. Her mother had lied and Gabe had actually been trying to protect her from her mother's greed. Now that the truth has been laid bare, Lainey comes back to him to apologize. But Gabe may not be willing to forgive her...
As a special envoy of the kingdom of Marique, Clarissa is to visit America. Her task is to bring back Jake, the only possible heir to the throne after the crown prince and his son passed away. Clarissa manages to get him to agree to go with her after much persuasion. She spends time with Jake as he unveils a novel new idea and finds herself drawn to this wild and uninhibited man!
Cory is an executive assistant at a top-notch company. Her boss, Max, is sexy and extraordinarily charming, but he has a policy of never mixing business with pleasure. Having just had her heart broken by her childhood friend, Cory never expected to find a new love and especially not with such an arrogant man... But suddenly she and Max are alone together on a business trip to Japan, and it seems Max may be ready to break his own rule!
Upon hearing about her little sister's plan to marry a musician after having known him only a short time, the ever-protective Esme heads to Greece to put a stop to the arrangement.While there, she encounters an unexpected opponent.Theo, the uncle of her little sister's sudden fiance, wants to see this marriage happen, and now Theo is thinking of inventive, seductive ways to distract Esme from her mission!
Elizabeth could just scream-she's about to die with the one person she hates most! That person is Talbot, her ex-husband's brother. While pursuing her estranged husband, who took her son on an unplanned vacation, the Cessna Talbot is piloting crashes into the forest. During the time they spend together while lost, Elizabeth begins to see a kinder side to her companion, and her heart begins to melt. With their love for each other growing, and their rational thinking keeping them apart, where will these two end up?
Georgia is CEO of the company she inherited from her grandfather and has dedicated herself to work without ever giving a thought to her heart. One day a man tries to force her to accept his proposal by keeping her on his yacht! Thankfully Georgia is rescued when another yacht passes by. When she sets her eyes on the yacht's owner, Jake, she falls for his sexy charms instantly! Her heart races, but she forces herself to remain calm. After all, Jake may be the man who is secretly trying to buy out her company...
The day of her wedding rehearsal, Analise runs off to defend the innocence of her fiance's father. She argues with Nick, the private detective she hired, and insists on joining him as he pursues the truth. Nick is shocked by Analise's insistence, but as the two of them chase down the culprit, Analise finds herself falling for him, despite her engagement to Lucas. When Analise learns of the existence of a woman who looks exactly like her, she knows it can't be a coincidence!
Kalli ran away from the marriage arranged by her Greek grandfather on the day of the wedding ceremony! Later the man who should have been her husband, a millionaire named Nikolos, hires her to restore his mansion. She accepts the project as a way of apologizing to him, but it's actually Nikolos's way of getting revenge for his wounded pride! And even though Kalli is the one who ran away, she soon starts to fall for his overwhelming charm...
The three West brothers want to help pay the medical bills their housekeeper, Ada, has accrued in her battle with an incurable disease. But the only way they can access their inheritance is for all of them to marry. The youngest son, Michael, worked for the special forces and decided to marry someone after he got back from his mission. He went to Mexico to rescue a pastor named Alyssa who had been captured by guerilla forces. At first it seemed like they were just too different to understand each other, but as they fled through the dense forest together, they discovered all they had in common...
Mollie admired cowboy Deke as a child, but after he lost his wife in an accident, Deke couldn't take care of his own baby daughter. Despite how troubled he Deke is, Mollie feels she must help him and his child. She goes to Crandall ranch to apply to be a housekeeper, but she's rejected right away. Mollie will do anything to help her childhood crush stand on his feet again. And eventually Mollie's cheerful personality begins to soothe the pain in Deke's closed-off heart...
Christa's father's gambling debt has put the prestigious Liddiat family in jeopardy. One particular bet puts him at risk of losing everything until Ross Donahue offers to save him...under one condition. Ross will marry Christa or her family will suffer. A marriage without love is not what Christa wants but she is left with no choice to prevent her father from going to prison. Their wedding day comes, everyone congratulates their happy marriage and they share, not one, but two kisses! Can a marriage without love be a happy marriage...and is theirs really without love?
Clemency can't believe her eyes! She caught her husband and her best friend in a tender embrace. Unable to bear the sight, Clemency flees and ends up on the banks of the River Thames where she meets a man. They grow close over an intimate conversation, and their lips graze in a faint parting kiss before they go their separate ways... Five years later, she moves into a new house. When she sees her neighbor, her heart begins to pound. Why? It's the man from five years ago.
Only one woman has the power to drive Dawson Rutherford, a seemingly heartless man, wild. A tempestuous night long ago forced Dawson to abandon all hope of making Barrie Bell his lawfully wedded wife. But now, after five years apart, he comes to her with an unbelievable proposal-he needs her to pose as his temporary fiancee! There's no telling what sharing a house with this hot-blooded woman would do to the man of ice.
Max, a lawyer, approached and seduced Maddy purely because she was the daughter of a major player in the legal world. After they got married, Max was constantly unfaithful, piling up scandal after scandal with other women, and now he's disappeared. Deeply wounded by her husband's horrible treatment of her, Maddy begins a new job and tries to move forward with her life. Just as her new life is taking shape, Max appears before her again-now calm and gentle, as though he were a different person entirely...
Lauren is a popular TV news anchor. She's been invited to a party hosted by the mayor, but she has no date because her dedication to her work doesn't leave her any time for romance. David lives across the hall from her condo unit. He's a handsome man and she secretly hopes he will take her to the party. He goes one further when he suddenly proposes to her! "Can you pretend to be my wife?" She accepts his request in return for his escorting her to the party. Their married life starts out as a fiction, but the passionate kiss they exchange feels all too real!
How long do I have to live this way? Eve wonders. She was tricked into becoming her boss's mistress. Then one day, she meets a man at a party-his name is Carl and he's a movie director. She is instantly attracted to him, but the moment he learns that Eve is Max's mistress, he throws hurtful words at her. Max then makes a most cruel request: he wants her to play a role in Carl's upcoming movie in order to ruin it! If only she had the power to say no to Max's demands...
"For the first time in six years, I'll be coming home...to witness your marriage to the duke." The long-awaited letter that young Evelyn received from Sam didn't contain the answer she was hoping for. When she was fifteen, Sam was her first kiss and her first love. But she can only assume it was a goodbye gesture before he left to study medicine overseas. Suppressing her lingering passion, Evelyn decides to try her best to form a new loving relationship with the duke. However, Sam, now a skilled and handsome doctor, struggles with his developing feelings for Eve as he hides a dark secret that will change their relationship forever...
Layla is working as a waitress at her brother's small-town cafe when she meets a customer who doesn't quite fit in with the worn-down, rural atmosphere. He's Drake Ashton, one of the UK's most preeminent architects, and he's returned to his hometown to help redevelop it. Good-looking and successful, Drake is decidedly not Layla's type... When she was working in London, she was betrayed by another handsome, wealthy man who left her penniless. Drake is trying hard to sweep her off her feet, but Layla is cautious-she doesn't want to get hurt again. Yet somehow, before she realizes it, she's agreeing to go out to dinner with him...
Emma is beautiful and sophisticated, but she lives a simple and solitary life. Finding her to be an ideal woman, Jason decided to visit her at the candy store she runs and propose to her out of the blue. It turned out Emma had just been betrayed by her former fiance. So Jason abandoned his sophisticated city life to open a private medical practice in the countryside, where he can spend time with each patient and enjoy a relaxing life. However, Emma wasn't the traditional woman Jason thought she was, and their relationship took an unexpected turn.
It has been three years since her father's best friend betrayed him, causing her family's bankruptcy. Courtney can't help but visit Hunters Court, her childhood home, when she hears it's up for sale. She wishes her family could live there once more, but when she visits, she sees a man who turns her blood to ice. It's Blair...the nephew of the man who betrayed her father! He says he bought the manor for them to live in together-if she wants to live there, she'll have to do so with him. Yet he backed her father into a corner and shattered her first love to pieces. Just what can Blair be thinking?
After Lara witnessed her boyfriend's betrayal with her own eyes, she fled her home through a downpour, stricken with grief. A regular woman like her just wasn't destined to have a fairy-tale romance... She had nowhere else to go, so she went to the house where she worked as a nanny. The owners of the home were kind and let her stay in the house while they were away. That night, just as Lara thought she had time to calmly think about what she was going to do next, her bosses' friend Reuben Tyler visited. Lara's life was turned upside down the moment he offered her his hand!
The countries of Calista and Aristo are split in two like the fabled broken diamond. A legend states that the person who finds the missing part of the diamond will become the true king. But these tales have nothing to do with housekeeper Effie. Then, out of the blue, she is chosen as a maid by King Zakari and sent to the desert. She was nervous as she timidly entered the king's tent, but when the handsome, strong king informed her that she was to share his bed, Effie ran away...still wearing the glittering pendant she had received from her late mother.
Andrea, a horse trainer, was auctioning off her services for a hospital charity when her former love, Sam, appeared. He had dumped her seven years earlier, but now he's royalty and he's come back! Was he thinking of her? Perhaps not...it seems his goal was actually their son. Andrea was enraged by his behavior, but she couldn't help but agree to his proposal. She knew he would always remain out of her reach...
Princess Leila of Surhaadi runs away from home after her mother says that she wished Leila had died instead of her sister. Leila arrives in New York and puts on the clothing and red lipstick her sister left behind sixteen years earlier. She visits the hotel's bar and is fascinated by a mysterious man with a wild aura. After growing up within the walls of a palace, Leila decides to take a brave step. But after giving him her virginity, she's taken aback when he coldly leaves her the next morning!
Rina, a dispatch secretary, was dumped by her fiance of five years one week before her wedding. Suffering from a wounded heart, Rina accepts an invitation from her twin sister, Sara, to come to Isla Sagrado-a country on the other side of the world. When Sara meets Rina there, she shoves a letter into Rina's hand and then immediately flees. Inside the letter is an expensive ring and a written plea for Rina to pose as her sister. "How can she ask me to deceive her fiance when she knows mine just broke up with me?" To make matters more difficult for Rina, the fiance, Reynard, is essentially royalty, and he's a gorgeous millionaire!