Annalisa never met her father, so she's surprised one day to learn that he has left her a vast orange grove in his will. It's a bizarre move for the cold-hearted man who abandoned her mother before Annalisa was even born. To claim her inheritance, she visits the Spanish island of Menorca, where the dangerously handsome millionaire Ramon saves her from drowning in the sea. His mysterious and yet suave charm sets Annalisa's heart racing. In order to protect her father's loyal workers and the livestock, she's determined to revive the orange grove, but that means pitting herself as an enemy against Ramon...
In order to pay back her late father's debts, Alesha must marry the famous shipping magnate Loukas. Living up to his regal name, he sports an exquisite physique and jet-black eyes, and gazes hungrily at his newly purchased bride like he's stripping off her clothes, layer by layer. His indecent stare rekindles in Alesha's mind a past she'd much rather forget: memories of lovemaking that felt like r*pe, and being ab*sed like some plaything. She will never be able to tell Loukas that the bride he's bought won't be able to give him the passion he wants in bed...
Kathy met handsome Italian Sandro when she was 22. He succeeded in passionately encouraging the naturally shy Kathy to sleep with him. That one sultry night, when they each abandoned their inhibitions, ended up in Kathy becoming pregnant. When she told Sandro about it, all she got was his cold, irresponsible reply. Fast-forward six years: an unexpected encounter with Sandro at a party unsettles Kathy, especially when he invites her to sleep with him again as if nothing had ever happened! Once his warm hands touch hers, though, she repeats the same mistake as if put under a spell...
Ann is raising her orphaned nephew, Ari, after her older sister and her husband die in an accident. When Ari's uncle, Nikos Theakis, comes into the picture, he arrogantly demands that Ari be handed over to him in exchange for a large sum of money. Seeing as Nikos comes from an incredibly wealthy family, Ann considers Ari's well-being and reluctantly gives him up. Four years later, Ann unexpectedly runs into Nikos, who views Ann with contempt as a woman only after money. Despite this, a few days later Nikos asks Ann to come to Greece with him and Ari. Ann can hardly believe the words coming out of Nikos's mouth...
It's all my fault. All Eve wants is to live a quiet life as a teacher, nothing more. But she kept telling herself that all her troubles?being abandoned by her mother, ab*sed by her stepfather?are her own fault. And when she resists an unwelcome kiss from the minister at church, he hisses the same words at her: "It's all your fault." Fleeing home, she encounters Jake, who gently consoles her with the words "Nothing is your fault." Eve feels she's been saved. But she can't cling to Jake... He is someone else's man. Someone else who is obsessed with youth and beauty, and who makes everyone around her miserable...
Leah felt like all her dreams had come true when she married the handsome billionaire Gerard. That is, until she overhears him say the most shocking thing: "Any man who marries for love is an idiot. I married Leah because she's a virgin and perfect for sculpting into the ideal wife." All his loving words were a lie? Hurt, Leah runs away and, six months later, is making a living as a deckhand on a cruise ship. Suddenly, Gerard's twin brother, Gareth, shows up! He looks just like Gerard, but his personality is the exact opposite of his brother's; he's kind and loving, and Leah finds herself falling for him...!
Eden is a newspaper reporter hired to cover the famous, charismatic race car driver Rafal Santini. The sexy Italian, with his dark, flowing hair, has captured the attention of many, and was Eden's lover four years ago...until Eden was pulled into a heinous plot involving his wealthy but greedy family. He didn't believe a word I said and drove me from the country, calling me filthy names. But when they meet again, his eyes are brimming with blatant desire for her.
Rachel is a world-famous pianist who has always been her mother's obedient doll. But after Rachel accepts a proposal from a famous composer, she meets Orlando, a handsome man who she believed to be a black angel at the cemetery on the day of her wedding. Orlando tells Rachel that what she needs is courage to make her own decisions. With Orlando's words in mind, Rachel leaves behind her wedding dress and runs away. She hides in Orlando's dark mansion and discovers who she really is. She eventually falls in love with Orlando, but then learns that he is suffering from a degenerative illness that will eventually blind him...
Cassandra is shocked by her brother's request. He begs her to listen to a demand of Diego's, their company's financial investor. Diego will help save the family company from crumbling?but Diego wants Cassandra to sleep with him! With the kiss Diego stole from her years ago still fresh in her mind, Cassandra's pulse races every time she runs into him. But if she lets herself fall for him, neither her body nor her heart will come out of this unscathed. Still, she has no choice but to give in to Diego's demand if she wants to help her brother. What will become of her now?
Alyssa becomes the wife of a Russian oil tycoon who seeks a temporary wife in exchange for a large sum of money. Although doubtful that she can go through with marrying a stranger, she must alleviate her mother's financial troubles. She will soon move to a country where she can't speak the language and will be the wife of a man who will constantly be unfaithful. Her husband is a famous playboy who says, with pride, that he's never fallen in love with a woman. Just as Alyssa finally decides to give her virginity to him, she discovers a shocking new secret in their marriage contract...
Despite the frustration of a failed business venture, cool and in-control entrepreneur Darius Falcon manages to seal the deal with an exquisite natural island basking in the sun. There, on what should have been the worst day of both his professional and personal life, Darius meets a volunteer from a search and rescue unit named Harriet. He begins to feel happier than he has in years and the elevated mood the island has put him in encourages him to take a chance and ask her to be his girlfriend. Harriet gladly accepts, but finds herself deeply implicated in convoluted Falcon family circumstances... It's a modern Cinderella story!
After Katrina's parents died in a car accident, her loving aunt took her in and raised her. However, her aunt's days were cut short after being diagnosed with leukemia. Quick to tears in tough times, Katrina is given a cold reception by the doctor, Simon. In anger, Katrina storms out the hospital room, intolerant of his demeanor. Simon reflects on how he treated Katrina, and when he finally goes to visit her in the country, he finds that she is now living on her own, with no relatives at all. Cautious of his gentleness toward her, she slowly opens up her heart to him. While at the same time, could she be the one who finally rekindles the warmth in Simon's frigid heart?
Anna's nineteen, and she's had an unrequited love for Evan for two years. But the thirty-four-year-old Evan treats her like a child and doesn't respond to her attempts. Even that wouldn't make Anna give up on him, though, until one day when Evan comes to a party with his former lover! "Am I really that much of a bother to him?" Anna makes the decision to cut herself off from him. But, noticing how her attitude has changed, now Evan is the one with his heart in turmoil!
Sarah has just lost her beloved sister and is drowning in sadness when her gaze freezes on the man in front of her. She can't believe her eyes. That man is Alex Terzakis, a Greek businessman with a dizzying level of wealth and power. Sarah loathes this man: he knew that Sarah's sister, who was born with a weak heart, was pregnant, but he stole everything from her, anyway, and now he wants to take the child that Sarah's sister gave her life to birth. "I'll never let him get what he wants!" But Alex easily brushes off Sarah's desperate resistance, and the threats he whispers into her ear leave her limp and weak. "Oh, no...I can't do a thing."
"Sir, would you make me your mistress?" Kiley, a plain and serious secretary, suddenly makes the bold request. Rafiq is taken aback but, sympathizing with her broken heart after being betrayed by her fiance, decides to comply. However, with one fiendish condition. "If I take you as my mistress, you must satisfy me." Rafiq is the prince of the prosperous desert country of Lucia-Serrat and no stranger to romance. Is it even possible for her to satisfy his needs? At his mercy, Kiley finds herself undergoing an intensive course in the ways of pleasure?as she's guided to a new world of boundless joy and agony.
Interior designer Tamsin, by the bane of her own beauty, is mistaken to be aiming for a seat as the wife of the Earl of Grainger. While there is nothing but amity between the two, the earl's dear friend Bruno plots to tear the two apart. Bruno approaches Tamsin with his debonair charm and quickly leads her, naked, into his bed. Little does she know that it's merely a trap to show the earl how loose of a woman Tamsin really is!
Maggie was raised in a wealthy family. Lately she's started to feel irritated by the people around her who see her as a spoiled brat, no matter how hard she works. One day she meets her rival, Jack McKinnon. Jack started with nothing, but he is successful, well respected and very handsome. Maggie, who is usually rebellious, is for some reason compliant with Jack. She eventually gives up her virginity to him, but the following morning Jack tells her the shocking truth...!
London's rugby stadium is filled with excitement as it honors the gorgeous prince of Santaria, Prince Casper. While everybody else is having fun, Holly's mind is elsewhere?her fiance broke up with her the night before. She is so upset that she starts to cry while serving the prince. Somehow the prince starts to comfort her and whispers sweet things into her ear. Holly is too distracted to realize that there are cameras pointing into their room. Holly has no idea of the scandal she has landed in!
Audra had two precious childhood friends. The three of them were always together, and Audra ended up marrying one of them, a man named Jeremy. Soon after the death of her husband in the war, his large gambling debts came to light. People are now demanding that she use her body to pay off his debts...! But her other childhood friend, British Army Lieutenant Bryan Langford, arrives during her grief-stricken state. "He's the last person I want to see me in this unfortunate state with lewd men swarming around me like hyenas!"
Ethan Cartwright built an enormous fortune as a famous financial adviser. He is frequently shown in the media surrounded by countless beauties. Daisy, who works for a PR agency, sees Ethan at a party attended by celebrities from a variety of industries. While Ethan is quite sought after by social climbers, to Daisy, who is currently grappling with finacial debt, his very existence is infuriating. Ethan misunderstands her gaze, and purposely angers Daisy's supervisor, who fires her on the spot. Now her only employment option is to be his temporary mistress!
Brook is shocked when one day her younger sister, Courtney, announces that she will be getting married to her boyfriend, Jeff. However, the two of them are still in high school. "As her older sister, I must put a stop to this reckless marriage!" When Brook consults with Jeff's cool and handsome older stepbrother, Chase, he throws her a $10,000 check, saying bluntly that "I'd like to pretend none of this ever happened"! Shaking with anger that he has insulted her sister by saying she's only after money, she ends up slapping him in a burst of outrage!
Challis is a DJ. She contacts a young man after listening to his amazing demo tape, but on the day she plans to meet him, an elegant, confident man in an expensive suit?the boy's uncle, Richard?comes to meet her instead. Their family are the wealthy owners of a diamond mine, and believing Challis is after their fortune, Richard warns her to stay away from his nephew. Though his arrogant attitude infuriates her, for some reason Challis can't keep her eyes off him. He is attractive, but still, why is Challis so drawn to this haughty older man?
At a class reunion of her prestigious girl's high school, Harriet is reunited with Rosa, a girl who looks just like her despite the fact that they aren't related. The two of them get along like twins and confide in each other. And then in order to resolve both their problems, they come up with a strange master plan! Harriet will go to Tuscany for Rosa's grandmother's birthday celebration and pose as Rosa. It'll be fine. Rosa has a cousin who has always been taken with her, and Harriet had better not let this head of a noble family find out who she really is...!
Joanna, an archaeologist, visits the palace of the Duke of Mantejano to research the fifteen-million-year-old crumbling castle. The current property owner used to be her fiance, Gustavo Montejano, and her first love. She broke off the engagement with him as he loved someone else, and wished him happiness and hid her love for him. Gustavo, who she believed led a happy life, is facing loneliness because of troublesome relationships with his ex-wife and daughter. Joanna is unable to refuse his cry for help...!
The only one who can save her brother's company from the brink of bankruptcy is a skilled businessman from Spain named Matt de Capistrano. But when he buys a plot of land that has a lot of memories for Georgie, she admits that he may be sexy, but he's also a rude and arrogant man. One day after surveying the land together, Matt kisses Georgie suddenly in his car! Was that part of his devious game?
As the son of a distinguished family, Hugh is temporarily forced to take on the role of CEO in place of his father. While Hugh used to be a playboy-type that favored women over work, his competent secretary, Kathryn, cuts out any time for play in his schedule, leaving him nothing but work-filled days. Despite his resistance in the beginning, Hugh finds himself slowly falling for Kathryn to the point where he hardly even looks at other women. One morning, upon seeing Kathryn with a bruise on her face and her eyes swollen from crying, the feelings Hugh kept inside come flowing out all at once...
Romy was heading for the office of the multimillionaire Xavier, who had hurt her in the past. This is so he'll call off the suit against her father's embezzlement. I despise him so much, but I have to rely on him.... But on meeting him again, he offers a proposal to the pleading Romy. In return for his help, she'll marry him, and have his child! Is he really asking me to become a tool for him to gain an heir? He gives the resistant Romy a mocking smile and asks, "Do you really think I'd help without compensation?" His eyes shine darkly.
Even if it was a political marriage, Chessie was on cloud nine when she wed the man she idolized, Rocco. That is, until the day of their wedding when she caught the groom having an affair with his lover. Utterly dejected, Chessie walks away from it all and flees that very night. Six months later, Rocco appears before her once more?with a cold-blooded sneer on his face. He's a Sicilian man. He insists on exclusive possession and he'd never forgive a woman who's been unfaithful. Certain that Chessie eloped with another man when she ran off, he sets out to dominate both her heart and body and Chessie loses herself in his sweet nightly advances, to the point of not even caring about what it is she wants....
Elizabeth is a university lecturer who was hired to catalog a private library at an esteemed mansion in Cornwall. But she's at a loss when the elderly master of the home passes away, even after contacting his relatives. Then one night, a mysterious man breaks into the mansion. Clothed all in black with a body to die for, he's just like the hero in one of her favorite romance novels! Elizabeth is charmed in an instant, but she regains her senses and attacks the intruder. But it only takes another moment for him to subdue her!
One day Fiona, a popular wedding planner in Sydney, is approached by a millionaire named Kathryn to arrange her son's wedding, but Kathryn doesn't realize Fiona was Philip's ex-wife, who left him ten years ago. When Fiona reluctantly accepts the job and meets Philip, he immediately recognizes her and coldly tells her to quit her act instantly!
Alicia chases after one of the wealthiest men in the world to a high-end resort near Lake Como, Italy. Her sister, who was abandoned by him after getting pregnant with his baby, is now in a coma after a car accident. Dante is a very handsome and sexy man, but he is a lowlife. Alicia intends to make him pay. With stealthy determination, she sneaks into his house with the paparazzi. When she is about to snag a scoop of his breakup with his girlfriend, Dante gives Alicia a passionate kiss in front of flashing cameras, declaring that she is his new girlfriend...!
"I'll pay you one million euros to be my lover. But there will be no promises or confessions of love." Franco's words stunned Stacy out of her dreamlike state. While visiting the small, beautiful country of Monaco, Stacy meets the extraordinarily handsome Franco. He shows an interest in Stacy for some unknown reason and invites her out to dinner. Why me? she wonders. While in a state of confusion, she can't control the throbbing of her heart that his dangerous charm causes and accepts his invitation. But beneath this magnificent seduction, a sweet trap is lying in wait!
Intelligence operative Chance Mackenzie has been looking for an elusive international terrorist, and finally comes across some information about the terrorist's beloved daughter. Her name is Sunny. She is clearly in league with the terrorists. Chance fakes a "chance encounter," gets Sunny on a private plane and crashes it in a canyon. It was all part of his plan to get her alone and trick her into revealing her father's location. But her bright, sparkling eyes and golden hair are so pure and angelic... Chance is confused by these new, intense feelings brought about by a passionate kiss.
Jess is a hot, stylish club singer. After leaving her abusive husband, she lives a quiet life with her small daughter. Her neighbor, Rob Carpenter, is a handsome, quiet man who moved to town half a year ago?and Jess secretly has a thing for him. But it was also exactly half a year ago that a string of brutal murders began in town, and the serial killer targets women who look like Jess. Rob is a man of many secrets...and one night, Jess finds herself in his apartment?with a knife at her throat!
"How about we become 'hug buddies'?" One day on her day off, Chisa coincidentally runs into her boyfriend...holding hands with another woman?! Worse yet, the notorious playboy from her school, Izumi Toudou, also witnesses her crying after the incident. The following day, he keeps pestering her to get her attention, but she ignores his attempts to do so. However, when he moves close to her ear and says, "Should I help you forget about your Ex?" and proposes being "hug buddies," she's unsure how she should react! "You're actually feeling lonely, right?" Chisa tries to act strong, but Toudou's gentle hugs and kindness slowly seeps into her heart. Check out this sweet and heart-throbbing romance that begins through an unusual relationship!
"A wicked boyfriend gets love all twisted up." High school girl, Nonoka and her childhood friend, heir to a large corporation, Kyoichi. Nonoka was used to being treated like a little sister by Kyoichi, her sweet childhood friend. However, this same Kyoichi is infatuated with Nonoka to the point that he'll do anything --- devise ways to keep men away from Nonoka, enact elaborate plans to sleep with Nonoka and even blur the lines of their friendship with the occasional hickie or bite to mark Nonoka as his. Is this dose of blind infatuation too much or just what the doctor prescribed?
I'll do whatever you want, Mikami. Kiri Mikami is a high school girl who's known as "little miss perfect" by everyone else at school. However, she actually has an obsession with innocent and inexperienced boys. She really is a normal (?) high school girl, even if she fantasizes about shy boys! One day, Kasugai, the biggest playboy in school, directly asks Kiri out. Although uninterested, Kiri is very interested in Kasugai's stories of his first dating experiences. In exchange for hearing his stories... she has to kiss him. From that day on, the two of them begin a less than innocent relationship trying to recreate the scenarios from the books she reads about shy boys...? Little Miss Perfect (atually a huge p*rvert) and Mr. Playboy (who's actually a really shy boy when it comes to romance) begin their sweet and intense love story!
"My Childhood Friend Who Loves With Me Is So Adorable It's Frustrating"Since her parents left home, Hana is stuck living under the same roof as her childhood friend, Kou. To everyone else, he's the perfect and handsome goodie-two-shoes that can do no wrong, but when it comes to her, he's completely cruel and heartless. Having to live under a situation like that is pretty unsettling for Hana, but as it turns out, Kou has always had a huge crush on her?! In fact, he finds her so cute and adorable that it's hard to speak honestly around her. As frustrating as this situation might be, at the end of the day, Kou will do anything for Hana by any means necessary. This is a sweetly flavored love story about blossoming emotions between two childhood friends.
When Cassie was very young, both her parents died and left her as the sole heir of a massive fortune. When she grew old enough to marry, numerous suitors lined up to court her in an effort to win her hand and fortune. Viscount Quinlan was one of them. Rumours abound that he has frittered away his own family's fortune through a lavish lifestyle, but Cassie's older cousin, Anthony, who has been her guardian since her parents passed away, told her that Quinlan is trustworthy and invites him to a party. But Cassie wants to find her own fiance and refuses Quinlan's advances, but she finds his kiss too powerful to further resist his charms....
Amy, despite being of noble birth, is attending a grand party at the famous Lyndhurst Chase estate, not as a lady but as a maid. Her younger brother Ned was last spotted at Lyndhurst before his mysterious disappearance. And there are rumours that Major Anthony, the owner of the Lyndhurst estate, is responsible for the disappearance of his own wife not long ago. What kind of trouble has her brother gotten into? Under the disguise of a lady's maid, she sets off to look for clues of Ned's whereabouts. But during her search, she comes across a mysterious man in hiding. Who is he and could he have something to do with Ned's disappearance? But the more Amy learns about this handsome stranger, the more perilous her world becomes. Especially after she falls in love with him....