Laura overhears her family talking and discovers that she has an incurable illness and not much time left to live. She's spent her whole life in late nineteenth-century England doing what her parents have asked of her and has never had a chance to fall in love. Now, with death looming, she decides to live what's left of her life the way she's always wanted. She's only met the mysterious Sean once before, but she decides to ask him to marry her. Laura offers him her inheritance if he'll help her travel and give her a taste of freedom...at least, for the time she has left.
After she learns that she's dying, heiress Laura decides to marry Sean, a private detective, and strike out on at least one great adventure before her time is up. They take a trip to Paris together, where Laura acts as Sean's assistant. Laura wants to live the rest of her life without regrets, so one night, she and Sean get carried away in the heat of passion! She starts to fall in love with him and everything changes... But now one of Sean's cases may threaten Laura's safety and, to top it all off, Laura's doctor tells her that she's pregnant! When Sean finds out, he treats her coldly and tells her that she tricked him! What is she to do?
Helena agreed to marry a wealthy elderly man in order to save her parents from poverty after they gave everything they had to support her. On her way to the wedding, she has a near-death experience and is rescued by Mason Knight. In order to feel alive, she grasps her last chance at passion before committing herself to a loveless marriage, and she gives herself to her savior for a single night of lovemaking. After going their separate ways, Helena and Mason never thought they would run into each other again...and certainly not at Helena's wedding! Mason was mortified to find out the woman he had saved the night before was his boss's bride-to-be. Twelve years later, Helena's husband has passed away and his company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Helena needs Mason's help in order to save it. Mason sees Helena as nothing more than a coldhearted gold-digging woman. Helena suffers under Mason's hateful glares. Will he take this opportunity to get back at Helena for using him, or will they finish what they started all those years ago?
Kate is an international model, and she's agreed to auction off a kiss for charity. The price keeps going up, and the final bid is...eighty thousand dollars! The bidder is venture capital giant Tiarnan Quinn, an old friend of Kate's and her first love. Ten years ago, she told him how she felt about him, and his rejection was cold and humiliating. He's just as intense and haughty as ever, but overflowing with the kind of charm that instantly captivates women. He invites Kate to go to an island in the Caribbean with him... What is he doing? Kate knows it's risky to go along with his ploy, but she wants to get some closure for her youthful heartbreak, so she decides to go along with it.
When Isabella was younger, she followed Paulo around as if he were her brother. He's ten years older and has always been a prince in Isabella's eyes, but he works for a large bank in London now and only returns to Brazil once a year. One day, Isabella overheard him talking about his plans for marriage. She was so upset that she ran off and had a one-night stand with her professor, and now...she's pregnant! But how can she tell Paulo that? She runs into him while she's studying abroad in London, and he invites her to come and live with him until the baby is born. Isabella is carrying another man's child, but she can't stop her feelings for Paulo! What is she to do?
The day before her wedding, Stefanie finds out her fiance eloped with her best friend, Noelle. In shock, she quits her job and leaves her hometown. Then one day, she runs into Noelle's ex-fiance. Needing a wife for his job, he surprises Stefanie by asking her to marry him. Despite some hesitation, she accepts his offer. His kindness helps her begin to heal her broken heart, even as she realizes that their makeshift marriage is more than a little confusing.
Alexia visits San Philippe as a bride candidate for Prince Adam. But Adam is swamped with his public duties, so his brother, Rafe, comes to pick her up. Unlike Adam, who is noble, Rafe is a playboy prince. The memory of the masquerade ball four years ago flashes through her mind-she danced with a masked prince and kissed him. She'd thought she'd kissed Adam, but it was Rafe! Ever since, Alexia has thought of Rafe as her archenemy. Unexpectedly seeing him again confuses her, but he doesn't seem uncomfortable at all as he throws her a seductive look.
Erin, a widow, operates a hotel with a baby in her arms. One day, a millionaire named Sam comes for a long-term stay. However, the handsome guest, who's caught Erin's eye, has a secret objective. Erin, knowing nothing of Sam's motives, receives a letter containing an astonishing message-due to a mix-up at the fertility clinic, her baby's father isn't who she thought, and he will soon be fighting for custody! And Erin has no idea that the father is Sam!
The plan is for Georgia, an English teacher, to work as a home tutor during her summer vacation in Tuscany, where her honeymooning sister and brother-in-law are staying, too. On the plane, she meets a handsome Italian man who tries to strike up an intimate conversation with Georgia. Her heart flutters, but later that night when she sees him again at the hotel, he directs a sharp stare at her. He was really kind to her that afternoon, so why has he changed his tune? It turns out that this man is actually a famous former F-1 racer named Gianluca Valori and his niece is the student Georgia is teaching! To top things off, he's now convinced she's having an affair with her brother-in-law!
Lianne just got promoted to chief editor of the Honeymoon section in Happily Ever After magazine. Her new job requires her to travel to honeymoon destinations with her husband, but there's a hitch: Lianne is actually divorced! Her boss is convinced that only a happily married woman can write articles for a wedding magazine, so she's never told her the truth. Reluctantly, she goes to see her ex-husband, Mitch, so he can accompany her as her "husband," but instead of finding the strict no-nonsense lawyer she once knew, she discovers someone who is carefree and lives life to the fullest. She feels like she's falling in love with him all over again, but it can't be wise to let her emotions run wild, can it?
Rachel works at a law firm in London and was just proposed to by her boyfriend. He's perfect marriage material, but she's not sure how she feels about him. At the same time, Rachel receives a phone call that her daughter, Charlie, is missing and she panics. Her daughter makes it home safely with a poorly dressed man in tow. Rachel feels bad for him, so she serves him a meal, but it turns out that he's her new boss, an elite attorney! Thinking he was playing a trick on her, Rachel is at first furious...but then he unexpectedly asks her out on a date!
They were two young passionate lovers. Alex meant the world to Shea, but Alex told her he was going to the United States to pursue his career. Shea couldn't believe he would choose a job over her, so she rejected him, deciding not to tell him she was pregnant with his baby. Eleven years later, Alex returns. He still wants to know why she wouldn't wait for him and she still can't forgive him for leaving. But Shea loves him all the same and her heart is torn between conflicting emotions.
To pay for her education, Carly worked as a housekeeper for Luis, a very famous, very arrogant racecar driver. However, due to the sudden departure of his private nurse, she's ordered to help with his rehabilitation! Meaning she would have to touch his sexy naked body! Seeing her cheeks flush, Luis wonders...why is she hiding her femininity? He steals Carly's lips out of curiosity only to be stunned by a rush of new emotions! Carly, I want you...! What he proposed then was they be not in a committed relationship, but to be temporary lovers!
Phoebe's best friend, Bianca, had a child she kept secret from the world...and now that she's gone missing, it's up to Phoebe to take care of Bianca's daughter, Nina. With her back against the wall, Phoebe is forced to confront Nina's father, Kyle, a member of the famous Landis family. She explains the situation and asks him to marry her...because if she can't gain legal custody of Nina, she'll be forced to hand her over to Child Protective Services. At first Kyle doesn't know what to do, but after DNA testing shows that Nina is his daughter, he agrees to her plan.
Daughter of a billionaire, Nina has spent a sheltered life with 24-hour security almost all her life because of the incident in which her mother was kidnapped and died... She loves her overprotective father but questions her life without freedom. One day, Nina's father decides to show his jewelry collection at the gallery Archangel, where Nina meets Rafe, the owner of the gallery. Seduced by his passionate gaze, Nina realizes her inner wish to be taken away from her cage...!
Ronnie's elder brother has helped her land a tutoring job on the Italian island of Sardinia, but he's also warned her that her employer, Guido, is dangerous. The first sight of him leaves her speechless-what a gorgeous man! But even before Ronnie starts her job teaching English to his niece, Guido is visibly hostile toward her. While sensing there will be some trouble ahead, Ronnie finds herself falling for Guido despite herself.
In search of the perfect partner, Francesca's world is rocked when she meets the dynamic Sam at her party. As they meet, events are accelerated when a woman suddenly slaps him on the cheek. No one is quite sure what happened, but Sam is escorted out of the party. Sam's expression is one of disbelief and Francesca, taking pity on him, discovers that the perpetrator was an uninvited guest. What went on between the two of them? In an effort to find out, Francesca tracks Sam down...
Out of nowhere, a man appears in front of Linnea at her home in New York. He is a handsome Arabic man with passionate black eyes. I am Talal. I brought your daughter from Kholi. As soon as she hears those words, she hurries to hold her daughter tightly in her arms. Linnea has been searching for her daughter Yasmin since her ex-husband Malik kidnapped her three years ago. While she is charmed by Talal who is helping Linnea communicate with her daughter who only speaks Arabic, she remembers clearly what she learned from her past - to never fall in love with a man from Kholi...
Holly moved to this small town to run the cafe at her parents' request. But after a series of mishaps, she loses some customers. Her goal is to show her parents that she's grown up, that she more than a pretty face-she just can't let herself mess up again! Everyone's avoiding her, but Riley, the sexy sheriff, is willing to talk to her even though she's the type of girl he dislikes most-a city girl. Holly and Riley keep butting heads, but that doesn't keep them from being drawn to each other. But after finding out she's not his type, her heart begins to twinge. Is there any future for this city girl and her country boy?
Ellie, who has secretly had feelings for her boss, Aidan, for years asks for some time off so she can get artificially inseminated. She dreamed of love and marriage after seeing her parents' unhappy life together. But after realizing that she'll never love anyone more than Aidan, she decides to give up on her one-sided love and start a new life as a mother. When she tells Aidan about her plans, however, he offers to help her conceive...the traditional way. Why on earth would he say that? Does he just want to ensure she stays on the island for the sake of his company? Or could there be a hidden reason behind his actions?
Sidonie's been having a string of bad luck, but then she has a miraculous encounter on her flight to Paris-world-famous airline CEO Alexio Christakos sits right next to her in economy. They get off to a bad start, but just as the plane takes off, Sidonie's fear of flying kicks in. Unexpectedly, Alexio holds her hand gently in order to comfort her. Sidonie feels as though he's holding not just her hand but her whole body. But he's used to having one-night stands with gorgeous women, so why did he feel the need to comfort a plain, ordinary girl like Sidonie?
Kyla MacNeil is a nurse on the small and pleasant island of Glenmore. When her brother, Logan, a doctor, decides he needs some help for the season, Ethan Walker takes the job, moving to the small island from the big city. His arrival brings some much-needed help to the tiny island, but it also brings its fair share of problems. Ethan seems to hold everyone at arm's length, but when he meets Luke's infant daughter, he's taken aback. Luke's a recent widower, but Ethan seems to know more about his late wife than he ought to. Can Kyla find out Ethan's secret before storms and sins break the two apart?
"Super model Briana has debts thanks to her ex-boyfriend who convinced her in making bad investments. Just as she thought her situation couldn't get any more complicated, she is taken aback by the the random rude offer given to her by the handsome lawyer, Jarrod. ""'I want to bed you'? He decided that I'm a light-skirt and looks down on me. I can't stand this anymore."" Lead by her anger, Briana says she'll be his lover for one million dollars. To her surprise, he readily accepts her conditions. If she just bears with him for one month, she can pay back her debts... She mentally prepares herself for the ridicule she is to face after she gives him her body. But, he caresses her so gently and almost lovingly...But why? "
An unexpected marriage proposal from the professor Trixie adored left her, an apprentice nurse, completely astonished. She knows she isn't the most beautiful girl or the most talented, so what has drawn him to her? Ever since Trixie lost her parents in an accident when she was a child, she has been treated like a servant by the aunt and uncle who took her in. Her love of the professor was the only light that shone upon her misfortune, and the chance of becoming his wife makes her happy, but can she trust that he truly loves her as she wants him to?
On the island of Corfu, Camilla visited the tyrannical Nic-the man who stood in the way of her sister's relationship with his brother, the man who'd impregnated her. While Camilla couldn't help but be fascinated by Nic's magnetism and Greek-god good looks, he accused her of being a gold digger and sent her away from the house. Her sister's boyfriend was his younger brother, Spiro. The jaded Nic knew that their love wouldn't last, so he refused to accept their relationship. When Camilla once again went to ask Nic to let her sister, Kate, meet with her boyfriend, what she received instead was a humiliating and numbingly sweet kiss.
Julia is always at the beck and call of her selfish and criminally handsome boss, Sebastian. However, she explodes with anger when he asks her to break up with his girlfriend for him. This time he's gone too far and Julia has had enough. She announces that she's quitting, but she never could have anticipated his reaction. He tells her that, though he would never pursue his secretary, he has no problem setting his sights on an ex-employee. Julia's resignation has unexpectedly lifted Sebastian's self-induced ban on her seduction! (The story His Accidental Fiancée is also included in this volume.)
Catarina was raised in a school for young ladies, and isn't at all used to men. So when she finds herself in the arms of her handsome new guardian, Jake Ramirez, he makes her thin body tremble. Today, the day of her twenty-first birthday, she should have become free. However, according to her old guardian's will, she must stay with Jake and marry another man within two months! On the one hand, Catarina is intimidated by Jake's strength, but on the other, she's beginning to find him very interesting...
You know that saccharine-sweet sitcom from a decade ago with the little girl played by triplets? While everything was nicely tied up at the end of every episode, the series ended abruptly. The truth of the matter is that Kayla, one of the three girls, was injured in a car accident. Her sisters refused to continue without her, the show ended and her parents divorced! Still, all that hard work paid well, and the triplets are set to get access to their trust funds on their twenty-fifth birthday! Kayla's twenty-four now and helps out a veterinarian clinic to make ends meet as she waits on her trust fund to whisk her off to Paris and into the arms of the knight she's dreamed of since she was a child. Her best friend, neighbor and boss, Patrick, will continue on without her...or will he? They've been buddies for years, but Kayla may end up realizing that her handsome prince isn't waiting overseas, that he might be right down the street taking care of animals. Is this just puppy love or is he really the cat's meow?
Mel was living like a servant at her aunt and uncle's place after her parents died in a tragic accident when she was little. One day, grown-up Mel decides to run away, arranging for a taxi to pick her up before dawn to take her to the airport. Mel falls asleep in the car and when she wakes up, she finds herself in a totally unfamiliar place. She has no idea when she boarded the plane she finds herself on. Was her taxi driver a kidnapper? Mel is even more shocked when she hears the name Prince Rikardo. Is it possible her taxi driver is really a prince?
Meg, an innocent and cautious woman, finds herself seated next to handsome millionaire Niklas on an airplane. Feeling marvelously attracted to the man, Meg allows herself to share a few kisses with him, and they even get a little action in under the blanket on the dimly lit plane! When their magical passion doesn't abate in the slightest after they come down to earth, they exchange wedding vows the very next day. But the following morning, her husband gives her the cold shoulder and disappears from her life. A year later, Niklas's lawyers show up to meet Meg, who has completely closed off her heart, to inform her Niklas is being imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. On top of that, the only way to meet him is to show up there as his wife and request a meeting-a conjugal meeting!
Zara was engaged to a Greek billionaire, but when she received an offer to design a garden, she left London to forget about her arranged marriage. The offer was from Vitale, an Italian banker. She was nervous about receiving an offer from such a famous man, but she was enticed by his sexiness. Zara tries to remain rational around him and resist his charms, but when Vitale seduces her, Zara risks losing her resolve. If only she knew that his seduction was just a cruel trap...
To mark her return to society more than a year and a half after the death of her husband, Juliet is invited to a ball at her friend's house. But all she is met with are cold stares, and she ends up regretting that she came. A rumor has been going around that she killed her husband, and people are calling her the Black Widow behind her back! Then a young man calls out to her at the ball, taking her under his wing. He's Sebastian St. Claire, the youngest son of a powerful noble family...so what would he want with her? Does he think that because she's a widow, he can have whatever he wants from her?
Twelve years ago Juliet and Sebastian danced at Juliet's first ball after she married her husband, the late Earl of Crestwood. It was only one waltz, yet the scene was etched in their memories. But now Juliet is accused not only of murdering her husband, but of being a spy for France! Determined to prove her innocence, Sebastian whisks her away to his family's manor to hide her. Will he succeed? Find out in the thrilling conclusion of this two-part historical romance!
Bria's husband, Sam, is a Texan multimillionaire. Bria comes running to the hospital after hearing he's been taken there after being severely injured, and she's shocked by the words Sam speaks when he awakens from his coma. "Did we do it this time, sweetheart? Are you pregnant?" Can it be...he doesn't remember? Due to her miscarriage five months ago, the two of them had a huge falling-out and separated, but he doesn't remember any of it! Bria decides to live with Sam until he's recovered, but how is Bria's heart supposed to handle spending sweet days together as if they were newlyweds when they were planning on divorcing?
Celie has been running for the past four years, traveling throughout Europe, disguising her appearance and using fake names. She's running away from the people who are after her and the large fortune she is the sole inheritor of. A sudden visitor to the café she works at sends chills down her spine. She knows this man... He's followed her before! With his sharp outfit and stunning face, he doesn't look like a killer, but she can't completely rule it out. She rushes back home, changes her appearance and heads toward the train station. But as she gets on the train she is suddenly approached by a stranger. It's the handsome man from the café. Are her days of running over?
Grace came to the Caribbean island of Alleria to conduct botanical research. But with her funds running out, she began working at the island's only luxury hotel as a waitress. Unfortunately she kept messing up, and the hotel's sexy owner, Logan, almost fired her! Grace desperately explained her situation and was allowed to stay on the island. And so she became infatuated with Logan and his youthful smile, never realizing that his opinion of her was far less charitable.
Sophia, a poor preacher's daughter, has lost both her parents and is desperately seeking work. Then one day she is summoned to a lawyer's office and is introduced to the Venetian prince Rozzano, who tells her that her mother was actually the daughter of an Italian noble. She is shocked to learn that the luxurious life of the aristocracy is suddenly open to her, so thankfully she is guided by the kind Rozzano. However, there is a nefarious plot hidden behind the smiling face. Will the innocent Sophia, not understanding the machinations that revolve around her, offer her honest and grateful heart to him?
When Ellena's carefree sister, Justine, and her lover, Kit, go missing after an avalanche, Ellena takes care of their child. Until she gets tangled up in a custody battle with Kit's brother Gideon, who threatens her right to raise the baby. So she agrees to go through with a fake marriage to Gideon, who is as determined to raise the baby as she is. By marrying, they can make themselves more attractive candidates for adopting the baby. But in order not to raise any suspicions, they have to maintain a minimum level of intimacy, and Ellena finds herself unexpectedly falling for this incredibly gorgeous man!
At dusk, in front of recluse Tanner King's mansion, Ivy stands determined. Tanner is her enemy and this is the first step in her plan-she'll befriend him, insinuate herself into his life as his housekeeper and then execute her mission. But when the door opens and Tanner stands before her, he takes her breath away. Suddenly Ivy's mission doesn't seem nearly so straightforward!
While struggling to come up with college tuition for her brother, Audrey overhears a conversation-Vincenzo Tomasi, who became the CEO of an international bank at a young age, is now looking for a mother figure to take care of his niece and nephew. If it allows her brother to go to college, Audrey decides she wouldn't mind dedicating her life to the children. But in the interview, Tomasi informs her that her duties will include being his wife as well as a mother to the children!