SUSAN

When a floundering singer and her daughter, Millie, are invited to a luxury yacht from the land of Khalifa, they’re immediately suspicious. Millie is approached by the country’s gruesome king but gets away thanks to Prince Khalid, also known as the Desert Hawk. He promises them safety, but the next day Millie’s mother is found dead! Eight years later, Millie works at a dry cleaner’s and has to deliver royal sheets to the infamous yacht. She’s eager to find out any information about her mother’s death but is surprised when she is greeted by the prince!

Shaun, her grandfather’s love-child, appears in front of Philippa’s family on the day of her grandfather’s funeral to seek his revenge. And as the newfound heir, he claims all of her grandfather’s inheritanceHe offers to keep Philippa’s father out of jail by paying back all the money he embezzled, but there’s a catch—Philippa must become Shaun’s bride!

"Sir, would you make me your mistress?" Kiley, a plain and serious secretary, suddenly makes the bold request. Rafiq is taken aback but, sympathizing with her broken heart after being betrayed by her fiancé, decides to comply. However, with one fiendish condition. "If I take you as my mistress, you must satisfy me." Rafiq is the prince of the prosperous desert country of Lucia-Serrat and no stranger to romance. Is it even possible for her to satisfy his needs? At his mercy, Kiley finds herself undergoing an intensive course in the ways of pleasure—as she's guided to a new world of boundless joy and agony.

He’s threatening her with the memories of their passionate time together… Rachel is working hard to keep the security company left by her late fiancé afloat. One day, she receives shocking photos of her and Matthew Riordan, a powerful figure in the business world, together in bed. The sender is Matthew himself. With her company’s future at stake, she must find out what he is after while also trying to forget that passionate time with him...

High school counselor Ginny was asked to give a school tour to Dominic, the visiting high prince of Xaviera. He asks her to show him the town afterward, and the two spend a dreamlike night together. But the prince is from a different world...and their beautiful union must end after one night. One month later, Ginny realizes she's pregnant, so she travels to Xaviera to tell Dominic, only to find him cold and distant, a completely different person. Now they must enter into a contract marriage just for the duration of the child's infancy, a contract that ensures their eventual divorce

He was the one I never wanted to see my weakness… After losing her family in an accident, Fay has resigned herself to a life of loneliness. One day, she suffers a fall from a horse and is saved by her neighbor Chase Rafferty. He tries to care for her, but she doesn’t want to show him any sign of weakness. After all, he’s interested in buying her property. Will Chase’s unbelievable proposal cause her heart to open up again?

I'm done with fairy tales. He lives in a world so different from mine... As soon as I told him I was pregnant, he left me. Since then, Gwen had been raising her three-month-old daughter by herself while attending college. With Christmas just around the corner, she was able to get a short-term job as a secretary to Andrew Teaberry, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a major global corporation. On her first day at work, Gwen couldn't help but notice the attractive man with dark eyes and hair who showed up at the farm where they will be working. She had already given up on dreams, but her heart was beating fast...

Their burning passion flamed out and now all that remain are bitter memories and a precious life. When Kate came back to her hometown to care for her sick father, she was distressed to run into her CEO ex-husband, Max, at the hospital. It’s been eight years since a miserably unhappy Kate ran away from the love of her life. They’re still technically married because Max has refused to sign the divorce paperwork. Although she never wanted to see him again, not a day has passed when she didn’t think about him. But now things have gotten more complicated—Max has found out about the existence of his secret daughter!

I want to pick up where we left off four years ago…even if it’s only for one night After her father remarried, Jodie moves in with the powerful Antoniou family in Greece. Stergios, her stepbrother, who is eight years older than her, welcomes her warmly, but her father and stepmother do not show any interest in her. To Jodie, who has longed for her parents’ affection her whole life, the Antoniou house soon begins to feel like a prison. One day, she causes a scandal and is kicked out of the house and sent to live in the United States with her mother. Four years later, she comes back to Greece with one goal in mind: reconciling with her father. But Stergios doesn’t believe her. He thinks she’s come back to ruin her cousin’s wedding, so to avoid a wedding-day debacle, he takes her to his private island as his prisoner…

Despite all the ways I want him…there’s a reason I can’t love him. Billionaire Chance Montgomery reluctantly hires Tori as a nanny to take care of his twin infants. But he makes it abundantly clear that he doesn’t intend to let others raise his children. As Tori lives with them and sees Chance shower the kids with love and affection, she gradually falls in love with him. Chance can’t avoid developing feelings for her, either. Still, despite their mutual attraction, something in Tori’s lonely past won’t allow her to pursue Chance. She can’t let herself fall in love again…not after what happened last time!

Victoria was handpicked to be an assistant by the crown prince of the desert kingdom of El Deharia. So then why would the Imperial Guard suddenly break into her room and drag her away wearing nothing but a negligee? Her good-for-nothing father has been in trouble for gambling before, but to think he would have tried to cheat at cards against Prince Kateb... The prince's personality is as fierce as his scarred face. He earned the scars amid a failed kidnapping, during which they say he killed a man. Rejecting palace life, he has been known to disappear to a desert village for months at a time. Victoria despises her father, but can't abandon the promise she made to her dying mother. She pleads with the prince to set him free, and the prince agreed...on one condition. She would become his lover, and join his desert harem!

Claire works as a secretary for a company owned by the Brewster family. One day the respected president passed away in an unfortunate accident, and his three estranged sons inherited the company. Claire’s new boss, Evan, was cold to her and she worried she might not be able to get along with him. But Evan has more on his plate than just a new company; he’s suddenly got a new baby, too. So one day after she gets home from work, Claire receives an SOS call from Evan. Secretary by day, nanny by night? It’s hard to resist the request of such a dashing man.

During her spring break, Isabella, a college student from the United States, visited Rome. There she met Antonio when she asked him for directions. Attracted to each other like magnets, they started dating after spending the night together. But the happiest moment of her life ends when Antonio dumps her without any explanation. That’s when Giovanni, Antonio’s older brother, volunteers his moral support to Isabella. While comforting her, he offers her a drink and suddenly Isabella finds herself caught between two brothers and accused of cheating! How is Isabella ever to win back Antonio’s love?

Hardly able to believe that she’s about to walk out onto such a large stage, up-and-coming singer Savannah heads to the stadium, heart pounding. She has been hastily brought in as the substitute for a veteran singer to perform the national anthem at the Six Nations rugby tournament. But the treatment awaiting her when she arrives is abominable: she’s forced into a dress that doesn’t fit, then shoved out onto the stage with barely any time to get ready. The next instant, the worst happens—her dress tears, exposing her before the huge audience. Then she’s saved by a billionaire with a face covered in scars…

When Liz, the CEO of a housekeeping company, visits her client, also a CEO, she finds out that he is none other than Cain, her ex-husband. After the divorce three years ago, Cain established himself as a successful businessman. With his black eyes and sexy body, it isn’t long before Liz feels his magnetic pull. On the other hand, Cain, wanting to allay his guilt over their past, offers to support Liz’s company financially. Little does he know that Liz still holds a secret she meant to tell him about three years ago…

Princess Eva has traveled to Xaviera to meet her fiance. As she stands by the stables, a handsome young man suddenly commands her to take care of his horse. It's her fiance, Alex, who mistook her for a maid. Alex is an infamous playboy, and Eva's dressed so plainly she was mistaken for a servant! Eva is anxious, but Alex proves himself to be kinder than his first impression, so she decides to go through with the wedding in order for her country to prosper. But Alex isn't interested in getting married! How is Eva, an uninitiate when it comes to love who has never even kissed a man before, supposed to change his mind?

Model Alysha has been selected to become the face of a major cosmetics company's new campaign. When it turns out that the campaign's renowned photographer is Ross, she is forced to confront an unpleasant memory from five years ago. Back then, Alysha was a country girl who longed to be a supermodel-she barged into Ross's studio and bribed him into doing a camera test for her, but the price was steep and continues to haunt Alysha. After that humiliating first meeting, why on earth would Ross choose to work with her now?

Can he capture her heart, as well as her castle? Sir Senet has come to steal Lady Katharine’s castle away from her. But the only way for him to get it is to marry her. Lady Katherine flatly refuses him and does everything in her power to defy him. But, in time, she feels her emotions begin to change as his sharp eyes and strong, battle-tested body begin to win her over!

A fire stole her voice and with it her dreams of becoming an opera singer, so Katie now leads a mundane life working as an attorney in a small law firm. Until the day she meets Italian playboy and business tycoon, Rigo Ruggiero and instantly falls in love. However, she senses his disappointment upon seeing her less-than-refined appearance. With a heavy heart and shattered confidence, Katie prepares to give up on yet another chapter of her life, but perhaps it isn’t yet time to step down from this stage of love.

They might be from different worlds, but the attraction is undeniable… Swept away by the passionate Prince Khalil Khan, Dora Nelson can hardly believe her new fairy-tale life as princess of El Bahar. Until she uncovers Khalil’s real reasons for marrying her… But somehow, she can’t seem to control her feelings for him, and she certainly can’t deny the sparks that fly between them. And unless Dora and Khalil agree to meet halfway, their fiery marriage threatens to consume them both.

Princess Lucy of the Xavier Kingdom sighs, "Why won't he come and take me away? I've tried calling him and sending letters, but I haven't had any news of him. Was he lying when he told me that he loved me?" Meanwhile, Seth is angry. "Why did she abandon me and go back to her home country? I know the King ordered her to come home, but not contacting me at all since leaving is taking it too far." The love the two of them share is torn apart by the difference in their social statuses and the expectations of their surroundings. But an unexpected chance at reconciliation appears...!

Four months ago, on a trip to the country of Bahania, Cleo becomes involved with Prince Sadik, a member of the royal family. But after making love, Sadik gives Cleo expensive gifts, making her feel like a prostitute. What a fool I am! To imagine that a prince could love a country girl like me… Fearing this empty feeling, Cleo flees back home. But now she is plunged back into the drama. And in her womb, a secret grows that may mark her as a possession of the royal family!

He may regret their time together, but Grace never could. Grace secretly gave birth to her former boss’s baby. She’d thought he was the perfect partner, but when she told him she was pregnant, he changed completely, claiming she was trying to trap him in marriage! She resolved to be a single mother, but worried for the child who would never know its father. So she went to talk to him one last time…having no idea that it would only make matters worse!

When they were in high school, Kelsey and Eric were passionately in love. Then one day, he disappeared without a word, standing her up at their prom. Ten years have passed since then… Now he’s a successful entrepreneur who lives next door to her parents! He still makes her heart pound, but he’s hard to read. Kelsey refuses to let herself be swept away by him. She needs to focus on more important things?as single mother, she desperately needs a job at his company. This volume also includes the story Rosa. Fate seems to have crossed the paths of Selena, a caretaker to the elderly Godfrey, and Ethan, a self-made businessman who built his career up from nothing. They’re feuding over the rights to a painting, but this mysterious painting has a history far richer and more magical than they ever imagined.

Marla and Jaicey are twin sisters. They were separated at birth and reunited 24 years later, but Jaicey asks Marla to keep it a secret. She doesn't want her loving adopted family to know about Marla yet. Jaicey's brother, Jake, regards his sister's new "friend" with suspicion and is mean to Marla, but she is just happy to have a family of her own, after years of loneliness. How could she have known that more suffering awaits her...?

He’s cold-hearted and the worst boss ever…so why does she want to remain by his side? Twenty-two-year-old Olivia just got a job at a wildly successful company—Inferno. She was supposed to start a position in the accounting division, but when she got there on her first day, she was told to report to the CEO as his temporary secretary! Tucker is smart and level-headed in his decision-making, and as the CEO of Inferno he’s become a billionaire. After Olivia finds out she’ll be fired if she doesn’t take the position, her tall, handsome boss appears. While fear and yearning tug her heart in different directions, Tucker makes a tyrannical declaration: “Don’t ask questions, don’t give your opinion. Just do the work you’re told to do.”

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?

Zara’s a plain-looking twenty-eight-year-old virgin who lacks self-confidence. But now, she’s found out that she’s the princess of Bahania, and she doesn’t have any idea how to navigate life in the royal palace! The king assigns Rafe, a blue-eyed American who holds the title of sheik, as her bodyguard. Zara can feel the desire in Rafe’s eyes when he looks at her, and before long, she develops feelings for him. Little does she know what terrible things might befall them should the king find out…

"What the hell does that baby in your belly have to do with me?" Nico is not only a prince of Niroli but also a working architect in London. His secretary, Carrie, gave in to Nico's pushy seduction knowing that it would only be a one-night stand. Three months later, she learns that she's pregnant. Meanwhile, Nico has been called back to his home country due to a dispute over who will be heir to the throne. Full of unease and hopes, Carrie and Nico are reunited at the royal palace. But what's waiting for her there are Nico's cold words and his beautiful fiancée! This is the fifth installment of the Royal House of Niroli.

Jenny, who cares for her aging mother by herself, ends up marrying Sebastian, a mature, wealthy businessman she happened to meet, out of convenience. As part of the agreement, she gets the child she’s always dreamed of having via artificial insemination. And he gets the successor he’s wanted so badly. Even if the marriage were to go sour for some reason, Jenny’s still willing to give it a try to have her baby. But when Sebastian unexpectedly dies, she is visited by his son…who claims to be the father of her child!

As a nurse in Texas, Emma never expected to be kidnapped by messengers of the king of Bahania. But at the palace a familiar man approached her—Reyhan. She had no idea what he might be doing there until he announced he was the third prince of the kingdom and that she’d been summoned so they can be divorced. Emma is shocked twice over—she still can’t believe Reyhan’s a prince and, on top of that, she had no idea that marriage of theirs was for real!

Billie, a top-notch flight instructor for aspiring fighter pilots, has a new student: Jefri, the prince of Bahania. He’s unlike any student she’s ever had before. He’s strong, he exudes refinement, his face is handsome and his eyes shine with intelligence. But where most of Billie’s students come to resent her after failing to meet her rigorous standards, Jefri is unfazed and becomes even more fascinated by her… When he pursues her, Billie tries to remind herself that a prince couldn’t possibly take an interest in a woman of her standing, yet she can’t help but fall for this man. Little does she know that Jefri and the king of Bahania are working together to stab her in the back!

After a fifteen-year absence, Maggie has returned to her hometown to raise her unborn child and support her elderly father. Unfortunately she has no choice but to look for work at her ex-husband’s thriving company. He’s as breathtakingly handsome as ever, but his eyes are full of bitterness. He must assume she’s after his money, but he has no idea that Maggie’s leaving him when they were young may be the reason he’s a success today!

"If it's money you need, I'll buy your body." Earn a hundred bucks working once a week! Meals included! The job is easy―just bare it all and pose! When Yuto's muscular body catches the eye of sculptor Kujo, the broke college student ends up as his nude model. "Even your penis is beautiful. Its shape, its color." Keenly observing every inch of Yuto's body, Kujo notices Yuto's erection during a drawing session... A sex comedy story between a hot sculptor and a muscular college student unfolds!

Maggie came to El Daharia to restore Prince Qadir's classic car. But she is almost sent away when he learns his mechanic is a woman. Her first impression of the prince is awful, but eventually they warm up to each other because of their shared love of cars. He then asks Maggie to pretend to be his lover, so he can decline a fiance who was decided for him, and she agrees. Maggie lives in a totally different world than the prince, after all, so there’s no way they could actually fall in love...right?

Audra is an accountant at a wedding-planning company. In spite of its elegant concept, the company is on the edge of bankruptcy and Audra feels responsible. She leaves the office one day and runs into her childhood crush, Dominic. Dominic asks her for help taking care of his nephew, whose parents were killed in an accident. To her surprise, he offers enough compensation to save the company! But now she has to live under the same roof as the corporate tycoon, notorious for his playboy lifestyle!

Suzanne wanted to start over again in a small town. While working at the town’s diner, a strange man came up to her and rudely demanded to know who she was. The brash and arrogant man was Cale Andreas, the very man Suzanne had come to find. Suzanne finds herself attracted Cale’s masculine charisma despite his rough edges, but her first priority is to sell her grandmother’s stocks, securing a future for herself and her daughter. So what will she do when she finds herself drawn to Cale?

Mistress Glenys Seymour comes from an odd family full of uncles who have mysterious powers and trinkets that bemuse and confuse her medieval contemporaries. Gentlemanly scoundrel Kieran Fitzallen has been paid to take her away, so the Greth Stone, a mysterious family heirloom, can fall into enemy hands. Will Glenys escape from Kieran, or will she even want to? He may not be the knave she first thought he was.

May the dreamlike days of my marriage to him last forever. Molly, who works in marketing, has been secretly in love with her boss, Jack, for the past four years and often imagines herself as his bride. One day, while at a marketing department launch party, Jack invites her to dance. She ecstatically agrees, but just then, she is caught up in a sudden fight between two other guests and falls and hits her head. When Molly wakes up at her beloved Jack’s house, she believes that she’s his wife!

Nun-in-training Kayleen has been dispatched to the desert kingdom of El Deharia to work as a teacher at an orphanage. One day a local chieftain comes to take three young sisters, her students, with him to his village, but Kayleen refuses to let him have his way. Who responds to the commotion, but Prince As’ad of El Deharia himself. In order to preserve the chieftain’s honor while eliminating the girls’ worries, As’ad agrees to adopt them as his own children. Amid the fuss, Kayleen is assigned a new position as the girls’ personal nanny. Never in a million years would she have thought that she’d live under the same roof as royalty!

She’s so inexperienced… How will she deal with her handsome new husband? Her? A princess? Heidi McKinley has always been painfully shy, so she’s out of her depth when it comes to Prince Jamal, who has a reputation as a legendary lover. Jamal is secretly enchanted with his sweet and studious bride. But while he’s happy to introduce her to the wonders of the marriage bed, he has no intention of falling in love.

After her father is executed for being a traitor, Isabelle is taken in by her tyrannical uncle, who confiscates her fortune. Every day she is abused by her evil cousin. Her only saving grace is her talent for accounting. All her life she thought she was too unattractive and too low of a status to get married…yet she’d always desired Sir Justin. One night Sir Justin, who had come to propose to her cousin, kidnaps her instead. He takes her to a monastery and asks her to marry him. Is this some kind of dream? What is his motive?

Liana and her daughter travel to El Bahar, an Arabian kingdom, after she is hired to work there as a teacher. The taxi from the airport takes them not to their new apartment but to a huge palace! Liana doesn’t understand what is happening until Malik, the crown prince of El Bahar, appears in front of them. It turns out that he saw her on the plane and she caught his attention, so he had her brought to his home. The question is...why?

Since she was fourteen years old, Tia has loved and wished for a relationship with Drew, a man twelve years her senior. Now at the age of twenty-four, a twist of fate has brought her face-to-face with Drew. For one magical night, all her dreams seemingly come true. Once Drew realizes that she's the daughter of his good friend, the age difference between them takes a toll on his conscience. Will Tia be able to overcome the obstacles ahead and finally have the relationship with Drew she's always wished for? Or are a baby and a callous marriage of convenience all that her wishing has amounted to?

Maggie is a dowdy secretary who has been obsessed with her boss, Quinn Scott, a movie genius and a well-known playboy, for four years. But she knows she can never compete with all the celebrities who vie for his interest. In order to give Quinn up for good, Maggie decides to set him up for a one-night stand…with her. But when she impersonates an actress at a masquerade ball, Quinn instead becomes intoxicated by her charms!

You know that saccharine-sweet sitcom from a decade ago with the little girl played by triplets? While everything was nicely tied up at the end of every episode, the series ended abruptly. The truth of the matter is that Kayla, one of the three girls, was injured in a car accident. Her sisters refused to continue without her, the show ended and her parents divorced! Still, all that hard work paid well, and the triplets are set to get access to their trust funds on their twenty-fifth birthday! Kayla's twenty-four now and helps out a veterinarian clinic to make ends meet as she waits on her trust fund to whisk her off to Paris and into the arms of the knight she's dreamed of since she was a child. Her best friend, neighbor and boss, Patrick, will continue on without her…or will he? They've been buddies for years, but Kayla may end up realizing that her handsome prince isn't waiting overseas, that he might be right down the street taking care of animals. Is this just puppy love or is he really the cat's meow?

It only takes one unexpected encounter to change your fate? For Lily Patterson, this change came in the form of the handsome Theodore Montague. After a chance meeting during a vacation in Rome, Lily finds herself with a job as nanny to Theo's three children! With no mother around to raise them, the children quickly grow fond of Lily, and she becomes quite attached to the family in return. But Theo is her employer-so she'll need to find a way to rein in her growing attraction to him, and fast!

She waited seven years for him to return. Now he’s back and in for a surprise! Abby Conway always believed that one day Hunter would come back to her. And now, after seven years of waiting, he’s appeared before her again. But Abby knows he’s come back not for her, but to meet their son, Tyler. Hunter suddenly left town seven years ago despite knowing that Abby was pregnant. Yet when Tyler comes home from school, Hunter shows no reaction. And when Abby tells Tyler that Hunter is his father, Hunter is apparently shocked!