Grace finds her fledgling coffee shop chain on the edge of ruin since their reclusive investor Rafael has threatened to pull his funding. Without those funds, Grace faces bankruptcy and her employees face destitution... So she secures a chance to make her case to Rafael in person, travelling to his secluded mansion in the jungle. Once there, however, Rafael coldly ignores her pleas. When Rafael offers Grace the chance to stay the night, she leaps at it, hoping to use the time to change his mind. Grace has yet to realize that the offer is in fact, a trap...
After a long, difficult journey to a music festival in an English town, Maggi's song captures the heart of her audience, filling the hall with rapturous calls for an encore. Later that evening, Maggi receives an unexpected gift: a single red rose from Adam. Adam with whom she'd achieved such fame...Adam who had betrayed and abandoned her after a tragic accident three years ago. Now a world-famous superstar, Adam has returned. "Why now?" Maggi pales and trembles as she holds the rose...
Kendall has a secret daily routine: swimming in a derelict estate's pool. In that secluded pool, Kendall can swim without anyone seeing her scars...letting the waters soothe her pained soul. But one day this seclusion is broken by a sun-bronzed man. He claims to be Hudson, the estate's owner. Caught in her bathing suit, she flees from his gaze. She can't face the feelings he stirs in her heart. She won't fall in love again...not after the accident that took the man she loved...
How did he know I was here? Emily is shocked to see her husband suddenly appear at the house in Spain where she is hiding. The same husband who had ignored her when she was pregnant and spent the night with his secretary. One year has passed since she fled London. "I already got what I came for," he says. Emily is taken aback at those words, and when she looks in his car, she sees her son inside! She has no choice but to do as he demands now that he's using her son as a weapon. Emily accompanies him to his old chateau in France. "What in the world is he planning to do with me?"
Rookie magazine reporter Susie infiltrates a party, in search of a big scoop. To accomplish this, she must distract the dignitaries' expert bodyguard Luke. But from the moment their eyes meet, Susie becomes captivated by Luke, and involuntarily they find themselves kissing... But in the next moment, Luke roughly pushes her away. "A reporter for the lowest tabloid out there. Your tricks are as vulgar as your articles."
Natalie runs a modeling agency, and Adam's company is giving her the chance to make it to the top of the industry. But then Adam accuses her of sleeping her way into the gig, which is the last thing Natalie wants to hear. Regardless, Natalie is attracted to the high-handed and pure-hearted CEO, while Adam is drawn to Natalie's serious and sincere personality. Though they know it can't last, they share an intimate and sorrowful night together. This must be a sweet dream...and I never want to wake up. Natalie suffers, caught between love and work, pride and misunderstandings.
Three years ago, Meg fled her home, unable to fully trust her husband, Jake. Today she's a made a life for herself in Melbourne as a designer. Just as Meg finds some peace and stability, Jake arrives at her doorstep. He desperately wants to know why Meg left. "It's because you were always out working... I grew lonely, that's all." The explanation fails to convince Jake, but Meg can't possibly tell the truth-if she does, it will destroy everything between them.
All Natalia wants is just one chance to be her own, independent woman... But her duties as the crown princess of Grunberg prevent her from ever leaving the royal court unaccompanied. When she finally gets the opportunity to travel, all by herself, to the United States, she relishes the fact that no one recognizes her. Then, out of the blue, all of her luggage is stolen! And who should come to her rescue but her handsome seatmate from the flight. He'd held her hand so reassuringly when they'd encountered turbulence...
Callie was forced into an arranged marriage with a much older man when she was nineteen, but was finally freed from this loveless union after her husband's death. Now, she's returned to Greece, where she meets a mysterious, dark stranger with whom she shares the most passionate experience of her life. While Callie tries to repair the wounds in her heart, her uncle schemes to marry off his daughter in a new arranged marriage. Callie is shocked when she learns that the man her cousin is set to marry is none other than her partner in passion, Damon...!
Tessa is a secretary working for Sebastian, a prince who lives in a luxurious Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan. She realizes she's in love with him, but they are from different social classes so she must forget about her impossible infatuation! Determined to do so, she hands in her resignation, but the prince says he wants her to do one last job for him before she leaves-travel with him to his home country, Caspia, and set up a meeting there. Tessa is interested in seeing the beautiful coastal country of Caspia, so she agrees to go as long as it's her last job. But she never thought it would start such a commotion...!
Mary runs a wife-for-hire company with two other female partners. One day she gets notified that her father is under arrest for breaking and entering, and stealing from Ethan Curtis's company. To have all charges against her father dropped, Ethan demands she bear a child for him. Mary knows she shouldn't agree to the bargain, but she sees no other way to protect her father. Ethan is sought after by many women, and Mary is sure he's only after her blue-blood heritage, but even so, her body is hot with desire...!
He's frozen in his own little world, until a whirlwind goddess lands there... Playboy gallery owner Mitch Hanover dates a new blonde beauty each month. When he begins looking for an auctioneer to work an auction he's sponsoring, he's captivated by the woman who shows up late to her interview. A woman who arrives in her pink corvette, hair streaming... Mitch is accidentally attracted to Veronica's charming smile and quick wit. But he has a tragic past and has vowed never to love again...!
"Steve Conlan? You don't even know him!" Meg, a divorced single mother, is outraged. Her daughter put out a personal ad in her name, and even arranged a date with a man she doesn't know. Meanwhile, Steve, waiting for Meg in a high-end restaurant, is also confused. He, too, has been tricked into being here, by his younger sister, who is concerned about his single status. But when Meg and Steve actually meet, they surprisingly find in each other kindred spirits. And so, they decide to join forces to get back at the family members who fooled them!
Verity's father had promised that when she turned twenty-one, a position on the board of trustees of his company would be hers. But when the time came, he gave it to someone else! Verity is shocked, and then explodes in anger. "I'll show you, I'll steal that position back from him!" But the man who stole her seat, Holt Jepherson, is as stubborn as he is strangely attractive...!
Patience, the head of a run-down boarding home, is desperately seeking James, the illustrious president of a bank. Why? One of her residents is his mother, and she's sick! Patience tries to get James to visit his mother, but he refuses. She somehow senses there's something warm under his cold exterior, and tries to get closer to him. Can she draw out a deep love from his frozen depths...?
Aldona finds herself in a grave predicament while on vacation in Malta. Zeb, a young businessman, is fiercely drawn to this beautiful, reserved woman; however, Aldona is being threatened by a man who knows about her father's fraudulent activities. She has agreed to join him on vacation as his "lover" on the condition that he keep quiet about her father's wrongdoing. Aldona was shocked to discover her strict father had committed a crime, but was even more dismayed that she'd have to let herself be treated like a prostitute... And what's worse, she can't tell anyone about it-certainly not her beloved Zeb! "I can't sleep with him without telling him the truth first!" Aldona longs to confess, but continues to keep silent, causing Zeb to misunderstand and build up a tremendous rage, unlike any Aldona has ever witnessed. Was his anger the result of true love?
A successful businessman called Mac has sworn revenge against me? But I don't even know him! Olivia is confused as her father warns her over the phone. Threatened by Mac, it seems Olivia's father has spread bad rumors about the young man in order to take his clients. It all sounds silly until Mac shows up at Olivia's wife-for-hire company requesting her services. Mac, with his sexy smile, turns out to be the very embodiment of seduction. With all my experience in reading romance novels, I'm not that easy to manipulate. Not to worry, I despise ambitious financiers.
Tabitha's a dancer, and her best friend an artist. When he asks her to pretend to be his date at a relative's high-class wedding, she can't help but remember her grandmother's gambling debts-that is, until she meets Aiden's brother, Zavier, who sweeps her off her feet. What was once a cold gaze soon turns warm and full of passion for her, or so she believes. Zavier's just testing her! "You don't love my brother. You're just in this for the money."
A temporary personal assistant, Imogen, works for a top tycoon named Tom Maddison. He's known as "the Iceman" in the city for his strict and relentless approach to business. One day, Tom asks her to arrange his own honeymoon. He is going to be married to Julia in six weeks. Although his request surprises Imogen, she tries to plan a gorgeous honeymoon in a tropical resort for the boss and his fiancee. Unfortunately, the wedding gets canceled at the last minute, and much to Imogen's surprise, Tom declares, "I'm going to the tropical island with you."
Talented businesswoman Sunny came to Las Vegas to attend a work conference together with her fiance, Derek. However, after Derek spends all of his time at the casino, Sunny returns his engagement ring. Moments later, she's invited out by the company's CEO, Bryce Templar. To think the multimillionaire playboy who frequents the headlines would ask her out to dinner! After a night of dreamlike hospitality ending in a passionate kiss, Sunny opens her heart to Bryce. Little does she know, it's all just a part of his devious trap!
Isabel rescues Miguel, who has collapsed in the street, and ends up becoming the elderly scholar's caregiver and housekeeper. But one day, they're visited by a handsome young man. With scorn-filled eyes he asks Isabel, "How much will it take to get you to leave this house?" The man is none other than Miguel's nephew, Cayo. Isabel wonders why, if he's so well-off, he hasn't saved his uncle from his austere lifestyle. Why is he trying to drive her out?
The Countess Lia is hosting a gorgeous charity gala. Among the generous bids of all the celebrities, Roark, a multimillionaire, makes a scene and embraces her. "It's almost as if they're trying to buy you at an auction. But I'm the one who's going to win the right to take you to bed," he says, offering her a million dollars. Lia allows him to take her to the middle of the dance floor, and suddenly he steals a lustful kiss against her will. The passion nearly drowns her. But what will happen when she hears that he's the man who indirectly caused the deaths of her father and younger sister?
"I'll marry the first man who introduces himself to me," Casey declared. According to her grandfather's will, if Casey doesn't get married within forty-eight hours, the company and inheritance she's counting on will all be given to her stepsiblings instead. Her grandfather's goal was to force her to marry Lash Marlow, the family's legal advisor and son of a prominent family. But it would be better to marry a total stranger than a sneaky man like him! Then Ryder, a handsome man with cold eyes, appears. What unconventional married life will befall these total strangers?
Kris is loitering by herself at a bar in a high-class hotel in Singapore when a sexy, black-haired man calls out to her. Entranced by his eyes, which are deep like the night, Kris spends the evening with him. He's a total stranger; the only thing they know about each other are their names.It's just a magical one-night dream against the Singapore skyline. But then two months later, Kris gets head-hunted to work for a new company and runs into him again...as her boss!
Diana, who has just been abandoned by her husband, leaves on a trip to find the birth mother she's always wanted to know in order to heal her broken heart. She hears her mother is in a small village in the south of France, and she decides to stay there a while. She should be able to find her mother here, right? Diana is anxious. Then a strange man calls out to her-he's a businessman and calls himself Comte Anton de Valois. He doesn't seem like a bad person, but his overly friendly attitude gives her doubts. Does he have some kind of ulterior motive? He's just too charming to refuse...
Jessica is shocked to find a surprise guest in attendance at her stepfather's funeral-what could Angelos be doing here? He was her first love back when she was just a naive little girl... but seven years later, Angelos, now a suave entrepreneur, has some news that will change Jessica's world forever. He claims that the inheritance left to Jessica by her stepfather is actually his. Her stepfather gave Angelos everything to pay off his gambling debts. Now Angelos has an interesting proposition for the penniless Jessica!
Twelve years ago Ben Dexter and Caroline Harvey engaged in a tumultuous teenage fling. When Ben disappeared, Caroline's hateful father told her that he'd paid him off to leave her forever. Now that Ben is back in Caroline's life to claim a piece of art, she finds herself conflicted. She once loved this man, but he left her simply for money...or did he? Caroline must face her past before she can move forward.
Noblewoman Chloe is despondent about her imminent marriage to Sir Anthony Chandler, a man she met only once when the pair danced at a ball two years earlier. Desperate to avoid the marriage her father arranged, she and her brother fake a kidnapping, believing that Chloe's intended will call off the engagement when the rumors start to swirl... But the kidnapper her brother hired turns out to be a real villain! Has Chloe truly been kidnapped?
When a chance encounter has Prince Nicolo Barbieri bump into Aimee Black, he's met with a rather rude and angry woman. When they run into each other again at a dance club, they consider it a coincidence. When he finds out that her grandfather owns a company he's trying to take over, he starts to wonder: Is this all part of some bigger plan? When she shows up months later pregnant with his child, he has to ask himself if it's strategy or fate that keeps bringing them back together.
Sussex, England. At the beginning of the 19th century, a bride marches into her wedding with a gun in hand, ready to kill her groom. What has led to Alexandra Rawdon drawing arms against her future husband, Lord Richard Anthony Deverell? She agrees to an ultimatum: Anthony has six months to prove that he did not kill her father. If he can't, she can end things. To what lengths will Anthony go to prove to his wife that he's not her father's murderer?
Cat has been in love with her stepbrother, Luke, since she was little. Her love for him has never wavered. But Luke treats her like a child and doesn't take her seriously as a woman. And yet, he is the only one she can love forever. Feeling at a loss, she tries a new approach. She enlists Luke to help her find the perfect husband, sure that if he looks hard enough, he'll discover that he's her man.
Nickie Sheridan is a woman shrouded in mystery. Overburdened by her studies, her work and her father's illness, she has completely neglected her social life. However, that all changes when successful lawyer Cal Harrison offers his help as her world comes crashing down around her. Overworked, broke and alone, Nickie has no other choice but to reluctantly accept Cal's offer. Despite their rocky first meeting, Nickie soon discovers that Cal is not the type of man she thought he was. Yet she must keep her distance as she hides a terrible secret that no one must discover...
Mikki was having enough problems dealing with customers who wouldn't keep their hands to themselves, but then one day a man named Clayton approaches to her, claiming she might be Meg, the long-lost daughter of his wealthy employer. Sounding too good to be true, Mikki couldn't help but feel suspicious. Clayton had his heart set on finding the real Meg and went to great lengths in convincing Mikki to come with him. Yet when she went, Mikki had to deal with people accusing her of being some kind of con artist. Soon the person Mikki confided in was Clayton, but was he only supporting her because he wanted to please his employer, or could there be a deeper reason? Some startling events start to arise for Mikki-how will she handle it all, especially when she starts to have feelings for Clayton?
Gina and Marie have gone to the Bahamas after winning tickets from work! Marie's looking for a man to pay her way through life, taking her out of her job, but Gina's just in a rush to get home. When she escapes from an island party by stealing a boat, she crashes on the shores of land belonging to noted romance writer Ryan Barras. Will she become the inspiration for his next book, or is he the villain of her story?
Nicholas arrives at party with anything but fun on his mind, having been served divorce papers earlier in the day. When Danielle finds him more entertaining than the rest of the crowd, the two escape for a night of passion. But when he dismisses Danielle with a stack of money instead of breakfast in bed, she leaves in shame and anger and goes about her life full of resentment, unable to forget that night. Seven years later, Nicholas comes to her once again, paying for a different set of services. Will Danielle's pride be bought yet again?
Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella of San Rimini has a daunting task at hand: she needs to set up a museum event to show off artifacts for San Rimini's one-thousandth anniversary, and the elusive Nick Black is the man for the job. What secret does Nick hide from the world, and what does it have to do with the ancient folktale about a cursed knight who must atone for his sins? Is Nick saving Isabella's event, or is she saving his soul?
Lucia has been infatuated with her cousin, Luka, the Prince of Dacia, for years. But Luka is married to Alexa, and Lucia is left to pine after a man she can't have. Then she meets Hunter Radcliffe, a commoner who has worked hard to build his business and fortune. To escape the oppressive lifestyle of being a royal, Lucia travels with Hunter to New Zealand...and finds herself falling in love. When she discovers she is pregnant with Hunter's child, she is torn between what appears to be a union of convenience and her own yearning for a marriage with love.
Kirsty always felt that love brought nothing but misery, which is why she never wanted to let herself fall for anyone. That is, until she met the handsome doctor Jake Cameron. Even though it felt as if something was sparkling between them, neither let themselves act on their feelings. When Kirsty and her sister are put in a dangerous situation, Jake can no longer deny his emotions. But will Kirsty let herself accept Jake's love, as well as be honest about her own?
Tess York, who is a confirmed bachelorette and career woman, can't believe her eyes when she finds Damien Sauer standing in front of her. He is a successful real- estate mogul and was the man Tess once loved. She left him six years ago-how could she imagine that she'd see him again? While Tess loses her peace of mind, Damien offers her a job renovating a cottage. It's the same place they had planned to live in together one day. The offer leaves Tess speechless, and when she sees the flame burning in Damien's eyes, she realizes that he's taking revenge on her.
Emma March was a caregiver for rich businessman Valentino Fiorenza in his later years until his death. His son, Rafaele, believed the media rumors-he thinks that she was Valentino's mistress! When his will decrees that Emma and Rafaele may split his inheritance if they live together as a married couple for a year, Emma's capability to heal others will be tested... Can she heal the harm that Rafaele inflicted on himself from a lifetime of guilt?