JACQUELINE BAIRD

Jake D'Amato is a wealthy businessman with an eye for the art world. He feels compelled to buy a painting by the late Robert Summerville—of a model rumored to be the artist's lover. Who is this mysterious woman? Did she have a relationship with Robert? More curiously, did she also have a relationship with Jake? It wouldn't be a problem except Jake is falling in love with Robert's daughter, Charlotte. Can an international fling be tossed to the wind when an unexpected pregnancy is painted into the picture?

Greek millionaire Leon Gregoris had been like a brother to Bea Stephen since childhood, and on her eighteenth birthday they got engaged. But only a little while later, she discovered he was unfaithful and she broke it off. Three years have passed since then, and now that Leon has assumed his father’s role as copartner at Stephen & Gregoris, he’s come back for her. Just remembering the humiliation makes Bea angry, but Leon doesn’t care—the first thing he does is kiss her in front of everyone at her twenty-first birthday party!※This work is originally colored.

Reunited with the only man she had ever loved, Marie didn’t know it was all a ploy for revenge… Marie took one look at the guest her grandfather had brought home and gasped. It was Rayner…the man she'd met seven years earlier and had been unable to forget. At the time, she’d fallen in love and given him her virginity. But a careless remark he made led to a quarrel, the police showed up and they went their separate ways. Marie had since moved in with her grandfather in France. Rayner didn’t seem to recognize her now. But for Marie the reunion was dredging up past emotions. How could she have known that the “chance” reunion had been a setup from the start?

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!

I thought my fleeting summer love had ended in vain… Eloise is surprised to realize that the eyes following her at a nightclub belong to Marcus, the man she fell head over heels for in Greece when she was nineteen. After their first date, her mother told her that Marcus wasn’t really interested in her, and Eloise thought her first love was over. But now he’s back, asking her for a dance with that same smile from five years ago. Eloise feels as though she’s dreaming as she sways with him on the dance floor. Little does she know there’s a fire of revenge burning in Marcus’s heart…

He’s manly, sexy, and an international businessman to boot! Raul is the name of this perfect lover, and for Penny, she’s starting to wonder just what their relationship is. “We’re thirteen years apart in age, am I nothing more than his temporary plaything?” Penny decides that she wants to be on equal footing with Raul, so she proposes to him! However, things backfire on Penny when Raul misunderstands what she really wants and rejects her confession. She leaves the house in a shocking manner, but anew life begins to blossom from within Penny...!?