KANA TAKAGI

We got married seven years ago. Do you really not remember me? Seven years ago, Joshua Falcon burst through the doors of a local diner and asked the woman working there if she would marry him. It wasn’t meant to be a marriage of love, but one of financial responsibility—he had to be married to take over his family’s company. The woman was Vera, and she was a ravishing blonde…or at least that was what Joshua thought. In actuality, she was Jessie, a chocolate-haired coworker of Vera’s who’d borrowed her uniform! Jessie has lived for seven years as Joshua’s hidden wife and was paid a monthly stipend, but Joshua never bothered with her, keeping mistresses instead. One day, he meets this intriguing woman and chooses to make her his mistress. The trouble is, it’s Jessie and she’s already married to him…but she might just hold off on telling him that.

Georgia’s boyfriend was taking things slowly…too slowly as far as she was concerned. So she decides a flirtatious, late-night phone call might be the best way to heat things up. What she doesn’t realize is that she’s called the wrong number. Ken, a police officer, is surprised by Georgia’s bold nighttime call. He knows she’s called a wrong number, but temptation demands that he stay on the line. The two build a relationship that grows with each phone call. Yet Georgia is still unaware of her mistake…and Ken knows the truth will come out eventually!

A small hotel on the New Hampshire coast is barely managing to stay in the black, so the manager’s niece, Cassie, concocts a ghost story with the aim of luring curious guests. Their first visitor is a handsome young man named Dan. Cassie is undeniably attracted to him, but he seems wrapped up in more mysteries than she can count. Later, after more ghost-happy guests flood the hotel, uncanny incidents begin to happen…and they seem to be concentrated around Dan. Even as the intrigue around him intensifies, Cassie realizes she’s falling harder for Dan by the minute.