MAOKO NAGASAKI

My dreams of my first love came true…so why do I feel so lonely? After her parents passed away, Zoe was taken in by her uncle and fell in love with family friend Justin Gifford, a skilled lawyer who is thirteen years her senior. On her eighteenth birthday, he came to her party with his lover and broke Zoe’s heart. Two years have passed, but she still has feelings for the beautiful man. One Valentine’s Day, she’s reunited with Justin and he suddenly asks her to marry him. Though she once gave up on this romance, Zoe is ecstatic that he finally returns her love and marries him…only to find herself sleeping in a separate room from her “husband.” On top of that, she discovers that her marriage was arranged by her uncle… “Is this a loveless marriage? Am I the only one in love?”

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She’s engaged, but all it took was one look from the new doctor for Leonora to fall passionately in love… Leonora, the only daughter of the esteemed Crosby family, is stunned when she’s introduced to James at a party. It’s him—the handsome man who took her breath away when she first saw him on an icy road. She had heard that a new doctor was coming to the village clinic…but she never expected it to be this beautiful stranger! Leonora’s nerves are frazzled and a slow heat starts to burn inside her whenever he turns his azure eyes toward her. Why is she feeling such never-before-experienced passion? She’s supposed to focus on marrying her fiancé and supporting her struggling aristocratic family…

Carefully hiding her face, the beautiful widow harbors a dark secret… The Earl of Beau Lieu, better known by his nickname “Beau,” is one of the most powerful millionaires in England and a handsome bachelor who loves to solve mysteries. When his brother is gravely injured, Beau races to him and encounters an old woman draped in clothes that hide her appearance. He is surprised to learn she is the one treating his brother. What could an herbalist living in the countryside possibly do that a doctor couldn’t? However, the person he thought was an old lady is revealed to be a beautiful and intelligent young widow named Laura Martin. “What is a woman like her doing in a place like this, dressed like that?" asks Beau as his curiosity leads him to a place he never expected…