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When Yuna Lee's mother moves to Germany to pursue a music degree, she's left to stay with her father, a university professor, and her three older brothers, who are fiercely overprotective of her.During her summer vacation, she visits her mother in Germany, where she falls off a cliff and is rescued by Rieno, an 18-year-old knight living in the land of Phantasma. Rieno makes a deal with Yuna: If he saves her life, She must come with him and be the Queen of Phantasma. After agreeing, she goes back home, only to return to Germany some months later, and is whisked away to Phantasma by Rieno. Now, she must cope with being the Queen of Phantasma, while forgetting the world she came from.

“Please marry me…” Princess Katharine of Austrich pleads with the king of an allied country, a man known as the Beast of Hajar. She is in awe of his his sharp eyes and wounded body, but still, she must make this marriage happen! She gains his approval by explaining that it would be a formality, an arranged marriage, but surprisingly he says they must make it seem real. Katharine planned on signing a contract and returning home, but now she’s staying in Zahir’s palace!

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Xander, prodigal prince and the infamous firstborn heir to the throne of Kyonos, a small island kingdom in the Aegean Sea, has returned home. Layna is at a loss for words when her former fiance, who now appears before her for the first time in fifteen years, demands that she come with him. Once a candidate to be queen, Layna is now a shadow of her former self, living a quiet life as a nun in training. So why has he returned now? It's because of him that Layna's heart and body are permanently scarred, so she refuses his command. But resisting him won't be so easy.

No matter how great her date may be, Rajung's love could never coexist with their body hair. The passion and excitement of a new relationship died instantly the moment she saw "hair": hairy chest, hairy legs, the five o'clock shadow etc. It's kind of like losing your appetite when you find hair in your food; it doesn't matter how good the dish is or if it's to your taste. At this rate, there's a good chance Rajung will die without ever seeing a man's penis, let alone have sex. Then her best guy friend, without batting an eye, said to her: "Guess I should pluck all my pubic hair and show you mine."

The wedding is about to start and everything looks perfect... But Dawn Featherington is filled with anxiety. Her soon-to-be husband is nowhere to be found. It is Cooper Edwards, the best man and brother of the groom, who tells Dawn that his brother isn't going to show up. And cynical Cooper is determined to keep Dawn from finding him, believing she is only after his brother's money. To keep an eye on her, he joins her on a weeklong road trip that takes an unexpected turn of events!

In order to save her beloved grandmother's land, Rebecca barges into the boardroom of a huge company in Manhattan. Slade has become rather bored with his daily life, so he welcomes the fierceness this young beauty brings with her. He listens to her demands, and then tells her that he loves her, but Rebecca only cares about her land. However, Slade always gets what he wants, so he makes Rebecca an offer that she can't refuse. He'll help her produce the heir she needs to keep her land.

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…

Louise comes back to her homeland of Sicily after ten years in order to bury the ashes of her departed grandparents. But to do this, she must gain permission from Caesar, the Duke of Falconari.... Upon meeting him, she instinctively wants to run from him. In the past, she spent a single, dreamlike night with him before being cruelly discarded. But however much he hurt her then, his air of maturity and dignity tears at her heart again. As she trembles, he turns his dark eyes to her, his gaze seeming to pierce through her as he says, "I know you've given birth to my son."

She is shocked when her childhood crush suddenly proposes to her! Interior designer Sachi is shocked to hear that successful and wealthy lawyer Dominic wants her to redecorate his house. Sachi was secretly in love with him long ago when he used to work as a gardener at her family’s mansion. And now Dominic is the one who’s bought the mansion after her family went bankrupt. When Sachi unwillingly meets with him, she is shocked by his sudden proposal!

Once, she lived the life of a criminal. Now she lives a life married to her doting husband, the Beast King! His beautiful violet eyes upon her, she's warmly embraced by his large body covered in fur. But...can she trust him?

Ginny, who works at a hotel, and her boss, Rourke, have a cat-and-dog relationship. Ginny is repulsed, despite his attractiveness, by how Rourke constantly changes girlfriends. Rourke, on the other hand, thinks Ginny is pretty but cold and stubborn. Their quarrels are entertaining for the rest of the employees, yet when it comes to working on projects together, they make an undeniably excellent team. Then one day, Rourke asks for Ginny’s assistance with a very personal matter…

This is the story of August 14 and 15. Shintaro Kisaragi--self-appointed guardian of his domestic domain--has refused to leave the comfort of his room for two whole years. But Shintaro's life is about to take an unexpected turn when his computer crashes and he is forced to venture into the world he was happy to shut out forever...and stumbles right into the middle of a hostage situation!

Liddy, who was Japanese in her previous life, is now the daughter of a duke and engaged to marry the gorgeous Crown Prince Friedrich. Sounds like a dream come true—except this is a world that practices polygamy, and Liddy refuses to marry a man with multiple wives. To sabotage the engagement, she loses her virginity to a stranger, but that plan is thwarted by a surprising revelation. What will happen to Liddy next in this hot fantasy romance?

Natalia Carini is a master massage therapist who’s devised a technique that has healed many people after years of pain. When a new patient, a polo player, comes in, she gets a bit too wrapped up in the massage and absentmindedly slides from business to pleasure. What would be a faux pas with any customer is magnified when she finds out that he's not just a polo player, he's Prince Kadir of Hadiya... and her future husband! Will the future queen be able to convince Kadir that she’ll make him a worthy wife?

Mahoko è stata col suo migliore amico, Chise, sin dal giorno in cui è nata. E' figo, bello e popolare tra le ragazze. Ma Chise ha un segreto che solo Mahoko conosce?! Gli piacciono i ragazzi! O almeno questo è ciò che le ha sempre fatto credere... finchè un giorno non la afferra e la bacia!

Nadine didn’t know what to do. She was asked to be a surrogate mother by her friend Lisa, and how could she refuse? But the agreement requires her to spend the night with Lisa’s husband, Cameron, and Nadine is worried that the feelings she’s long supressed might resurface. She has been secretly in love with Cameron for six years, and the morning after sleeping with Cameron, her heart is filled with regret. But then Nadine catches Lisa cheating on Cameron, and she must decide what that will mean for her and Cameron.

Mercy Raintree, princess of the Raintrees, has a surprise visitor: Judah Ansara, heir to the Ansara clan! She claims he's an old flame and a faint memory, but how can she forget him when they share a daughter? As the war between the Ansara and the Raintree comes to head, Mercy must take up her clan's fabled sword and fight for a future her daughter can proudly live in! Is Judah truly a man worth trusting? Can their daughter, who shares the blood of both clans, be the key to ending the conflict? Don't miss this exciting conclusion of the Raintree miniseries!

Annie and Etienne meet each other working for a French winery. The two instantly fall in love, but Etienne is somehow caught up in violence and loses his life. Nine years later, Annie is the owner of a tearoom located in a small British town. She still holds her feelings for lost Etienne, but recently another man has started to approach her. He is Michael Harding, the bestselling author and landlord of Annie’s tearoom. Although he has been her landlord for years, Annie somehow has never met him in person. Michael looks nothing like the gentle Etienne Annie fell in love with 9 years ago. Yet somehow she sees the two men overlap….

"Sorry, I can't take it anymore." Passionate kisses and intense fingering that make me feel numb... I'm at my limit!! Yuko, an office lady in her 30s, is too serious and not good at socializing. The only pleasure she has is the pasta lunch at the restaurant "Coquelicot." One day, she meets Soji who looks like a delinquent with blond hair, but it turns out that he's an apprentice chef at "Coquelicot"!? Yuko is gradually attracted to his striving toward his dream. "Your mole here is the exact opposite of mine. Can I look for more?" All of a sudden, he pushes her and kisses her!? She can no longer escape Soji's unstoppable caress...!

Nishimori has recently suffered a series of misfortunes. After being unfairly fired from her job, Nishimori wonders the streets until she comes across a small bakery. There she discovers they are looking for help, but the store is run by an ex-yankee. Could this scary man be the answer to all her problems?

Marina always gets dumped by her boyfriends because of her looks and behaviors. She determines to find the one who loves her just the way she is. One day, she finds an App that she can find a "boyfriend" whom she can not only have a date with, but also have sex with! The one she finds is good-looking and nice, but also stimulates her with his hugs, kisses, and caressing. She wants to know about him more and more, but also realizes that it's only a fake relationship..

First rule of the workplace: don’t date your boss. It’s a rule that should be easy for workaholic lawyer Hyeonseo Cha to follow, especially since her new boss, Jeonghyeok Seo, has a reputation of being a heartless playboy who only cares about money. But despite his infuriating smirk and arrogant tone, Hyeonseo finds herself slowly being drawn to him as he wears down the armor of cold indifference she’s worn over the years. But does he feel the same towards her? Or is Hyeonseo just setting herself up for a devastating heartbreak?

In order to save her ruined family, Alexandra works as a model while hiding her true identity. After a year dating Dimitrius, a Greek tycoon, she finds out she's pregnant. She wants to marry him, but she doesn't know how he feels. Just as Alexandra builds up her courage to tell him the news, Dimitrius tells her he's marrying someone else. Could this really be the wish of her passionate lover or is something else going on?

Due to her sister's infertility, Sheridan decides to undergo artificial insemination, but as a result of the hospital's mistake, she is provided with the semen of a man who is not her brother-in-law. As it turns out, the semen belongs to Rashid, the King of Kyr. Though Sheridan finds him authoritarian, he is as handsome as any prince you might read about in The Arabian Nights. Sheridan frantically resists Rashid's urgings that she should join him in Kyr, but then he makes an unimaginable move, sweeping Sheridan up off her feet and kissing her passionately. Sheridan suddenly finds herself lost in Kyr's intense passion... What will she do next?

“Hey, are you flirting with me right now?” That man I met in a general education class, Kwon Juhan. He was the kind of man who made people feel subtly uncomfortable. But because of a terrible mistake, I ended up getting tangled up with him in the worst way. “Don’t start playing games with me now. You’re brushing up against me like it’s nothing, flirting like that.” “W-What are you talking about…?” He was a man with vulgar language, a large build, and he acted however he wanted without a hint of consideration. So then, why is it that being by his side makes me feel safer and safer? “Could you… do it like you did that time… please?” At some point, that heavy arm wrapped tightly around my waist stopped feeling suffocating and burdensome, and started to feel like a seatbelt. As if, no matter how strong the winds blew, he would always hold me so I wouldn’t fall…

Twelve months of marriage, no feelings involved… Lydia is in Miami for a hotel resort renovation job when a figure from her past suddenly walks through the door. A year ago, Lydia met Ian McNeill in Tahiti and fell passionately in love with him. However, when she found out he had a profile on a matchmaking site, she abruptly ended their relationship. Reappearing in front of her now, Ian has a wild request for her: Will you be my wife for the next twelve months?

"If you promise to be my booty call, I'll stop fooling around with all those girls." Yu Kamimaeda's an idol with perfect singing and acting skills, but he's also pig-headed and rude. He's the top idol at the talent agency Sae Motomura works for. She's the kind of plain-looking girl who's not interested in make-up or fashion, and Yu's not her type at all. Usually, Sae wouldn't interact with a guy like him outside of work... but when she barges in on him getting busy with another girl at the office one day, he forces her to finish what they started!! The devilish Yu coerces her into bed with him, and then he begins to teach her all about the pleasures of ecstasy.

The house of the Mitarai family, who operate a hospital, burned down in an unfortunate incident. The wife who caused the fire in an act of carelessness prostrated herself, apologizing in front of the flames. 13 years later, Anzu Murata is hired as a housekeeper for the Mitarai house. The woman who greets her is the second wife, Makiko. Despite her high standards, Anzu manages to secure a contract for work. However, her true goal is to infiltrate the house.

Takashi is haunted at night by visions of a woman begging for her child not to be taken away. He sometimes sees strange shadows outside his window, but tries his best to simply ignore them. As his seventeenth birthday approaches, the shadow becomes more and more clear, and the vision more vivid. Slowly, the once kind and caring Takashi becomes indifferent, and eventually cold and biting towards everyone around him. What does this sudden change in attitude have to do with his seventeenth birthday?

One day, I happened to fall in love with a scandalous Hollywood star…! Scarlet, an esthetician, had to go to a film studio to do a wardrobe fitting on behalf of her twin sister. That’s when she reunited with Hollywood star Gray. People say he’s cool and sexy, but her impression of him is arrogant and mean. The next day, Gray suddenly showed up at her workplace and she was forced to go with him to his house. Is this the start of a secret love? The story of Scarlet’s twin sister, Violet, titled How to be a Heroine of Love, is also in this collection!

Riva is ecstatic to have her first job as an interior designer, especially since the client asked for her by name. However, who should appear at the meeting but the devilishly charming Damiano, a billionaire who was once her first love. The night she lost her virginity to him, he coolly accused her and her mother of being liars and gold diggers. His loving words were all an act, a way to find out more about her mother. Riva’s mother had fallen in love with his uncle, but Damiano was suspicious of her. And if not for Damiano, her mother would still be alive…

Be brave! In order to continue the hotel chain her father bankrupted. Opal has been force to seek outside financial support. She gathers her resolve and approaches the international hotel chain, Domenic, to make her case. Even though he is an infamous playboy, Domenic is widely respect in hotel business. While he seems interested, he says things like "Will you lips taste good as you looks?" He seems interested in her, not her business! Whats more, there's one condition for her financial support: that she becomes the bride...

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“I came to wrench everything away from you. Your house, your wealth and, of course, your virginity.” Maggie’s father has died, leaving a debt behind. At his funeral, Maggie meets a man she has never wanted to see again. His name is Caleb Cameron, a global businessman who used numerous ruthless tactics to drive Maggie’s father to the brink and his company and family to ruins. Caleb approaches Maggie slowly with a cold, cruel smile as if toying with the family’s future. Maggie knows what Caleb wants? “He’s never forgotten that night six months ago.”

Twenty-year-old Eva is the princess of Kyonos, a small island country in the Aegean Sea. Her dreams aren't big: she just wants a life of wedded bliss with a man who loves her for who she is. But life isn't so simple for princesses and it seems her dream will never come true. Her father has arranged for her to marry a man for political gain. But six months before the wedding is to take place, Eva's got a new bodyguard-Makhail Nabatov, a man whose cool, calm demeanor never cracks and whose emotions never show on his chiseled face. He's beginning to awaken feelings inside Eva's heart that she herself doesn't understand...

Jooah, Hyunah, and Yeoim are university students who are in relationships. Jooah has a handsome and perfect boyfriend but is disheartened by the fact that he prioritizes his work before her, Hyunah has been in a relationship with her boyfriend long enough that it has become boring and has thrown a sweet, soft, and heart-fluttering romance to the dogs, Yeoim struggles with complicated family circumstances and an immature boyfriend. Who said that romance in the twenties is only flashy and beautiful? Getting hurt and giving hurt, there's nothing as clumsy and unstable... This love is like a war that makes one feel like they are flying in the sky and then brings them crashing down to the ground. The bittersweet love story of three female protagonists unfolds!

How much longer will he see me as just a little sister? Dani is a new intern doctor in her stepbrother Josh’s neonatal intensive care unit. In order to keep things professional, Josh tells Dani to keep their family relationship private. She has always admired him, but ever since an incident on her eighteenth birthday, there’s been distance between them. While working together, Josh cannot help but admit Dani is a skillful doctor. She’s no longer “Little Dani,” the little sister whom he swore to protect…

The romance story follows a young man who works at a restaurant and a career woman who works at a hotel. The man has taken an interest in the woman after always seeing on the same train together, and suddenly calls out to her.

Cara lost her brother and his girlfriend, Allegra, in an accident. Even though her brother abused her and took the money she earned after her parents’ deaths, she’s devastated to lose her only family member. The night before she leaves for her hometown of Dublin, in hopes to start a new life, a man approaches her at the bar where she works. He’s gorgeous with dark hair and olive skin. She’s never had a boyfriend before, but she decides to have a passionate one-night stand on her last night in London. The next morning, Vicenzo tells her in a cold voice, “I’m Allegra’s brother. I slept with you for revenge.”

It's a "contract marriage" that was never meant to create love, so why ...... Solitaire ran the store left by her father while supporting her sickly mother and student sister. When she learned that the rent of the store was going to increase, she went to see the wealthy man, Xavier, to protect the store and her family. When she desperately pleaded with him, "I'll do anything if you wait before increasing the rent," he made her a proposal: a "contract marriage" with a one-year term. Xavier, too, needed a wife as soon as possible to protect his precious home of memories. And so began the unhappy honeymoon of two people bound only by their interests...

[The Darkest Pleasure 1] Even if I'm afraid of him and hate him, I can't forget him… Exiled from Olympus, Reyes, a Guardian of the Gods, lives in a forest in Budapest for thousands of years with a demon sealed away in his body. A tourist from the United States, Danika, meets him and her life completely changes. Not knowing the reason, she becomes imprisoned in a castle of terrifying warriors. Though she was lucky enough to escape, her life became one of wandering around in hiding. Even so, she caught herself unable to forget the Guardian Reyes who toyed with her feelings. He's not human. He's a man too dangerous to love, but... [The Darkest Pleasure 2] I'm not afraid! This is the man I love! Danika comes to know that the man she loves, Reyes, has been charged with living with a horrible demon. However, her desire for him did not waver. Once a spy of the human organization, Hunters, that are trying to kill them, she soon left their organization and confessed everything to Reyes. Subsequently, the Hunters marched in to recapture Danika and a bloody battle begins! She is just an American tourist, so why is she being targeted by both the Guardians and the Hunters? This is the third story of a tense series!

Caroline can interpret Russian flawlessly. If only she could interpret her own heart as easily! Caroline, a scholarship student studying Russian and struggling to make ends meet, can’t turn down the gig her classmate has found for her. She is to work as an interpreter at a business dinner while pretending to be the client’s mistress and lover. Despite its being a fishy job, Caroline decides to go along with it… She meets her client at the appointed place and time and is stunned by his debonair beauty. Lucas would take anyone’s breath away! Nevertheless, Caroline pulls off the job perfectly, as planned. What she didn’t plan for was waking up in Lucas’s bed the next morning!

Nozomi has married Shinji, an office worker in Tokyo, and is enjoying her newly-wed lifestyle. Until suddenly, Shinji's older brother runs off with his new family, forcing Nozomi to move into Shinji's family's home in the sticks! This is a cheerful manga about the struggles of mother and daughter-in-laws.

Sienna should not be secretly attending her ex-husband’s wedding, but she has to see the woman Nico De Conti has replaced her with. Until she realizes Nico isn’t the groom… Mortified, she can’t escape the church fast enough! But when Nico follows her, their burning fire spectacularly reignites, leading to one last night in Nico’s bed… A night that leaves Sienna shockingly pregnant with the Italian’s child!

One day at a London airport, secretary Natalie encounters a woman who looks exactly like her. She turns out to be the princess of a kingdom in the Mediterranean, and the prince she is betrothed to is a notorious playboy on the cover of every tabloid. Wanting to experience a life of freedom before her wedding, the princess and Natalie decide to switch places temporarily. "This prince needs to be taught a lesson. I'll put him in his place!" says a resolved Natalie, but when she meets Prince Rodolfo, she is swept away by him...

"Shuran... You will go to the inner palace instead." The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Sai Reiran, was chosen to become His Majesty the emperor's newest consort, however, on the trip to the Imperial Capital, she runs away with the son of another merchant! In order to fulfill the emperor's orders, and keep their heads, the family orders Reiran's cousin, Shuran, to take her place instead! They tell her to just pretend to be Reiran, while they search for the real one, however that's easier said than done! Shuran struggles to keep her real identity a secret and ends up being caught up in all sorts of trouble! Not to mention the intrigues and plots that go on daily in the inner palace... How will Shuran survive...?!

Whitney has shut up her heart—her past has taught her to be wary of family entanglements. But after the death of Whitney’s best friend and her husband in a car accident, Whitney gains partial custody of the baby they left behind. The child’s other guardian is Darius, the baby’s elder brother by many years. Whitney will be raising the baby at Darius’s mansion, where she’ll have to put up with this handsome but arrogant CEO of a global shipping company. There she finds that, despite having abandoned the idea of love, she can’t help but be drawn to Darius’s gaze. Will her willful heart be her undoing?