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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..

"Alright, will you talk now? Who are you?" Dan Soyeon, wife of the most handsome man in Yeonseong, Crown Prince Moon Yeo-gong. There was a man who desired her: Garan, the Red Grand Prince, second son of the Emperor. Caught in a fatal temptation they cannot escape, they are helplessly drawn into it…

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?

Long ago, an emperor suddenly decided to execute the members of his court. Only after being offered a girl named Aehwa, did the emperor's rampage stop. The emperor cherishes his “flower” dearly. When Aehwa expresses an interest in music, the Emperor makes Harang Kang her personal court musician. However, the emperor decreed that only he can lay eyes on Aehwa and has Harang's eyes destroyed. After finding out the true cause of his father's death, Harang swears revenge on both Aehwa and the Emperor. In this twisted realm of snakes and flowers, who will prevail?

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?

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?

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?

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…

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!

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...

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.

“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.”

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!

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?

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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...

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?

When Caitlyn saw her lover, Lazzaro, it felt like her entire body was on fire. This was it. This was what she had been waiting for. She had met Lazzaro six weeks before. The second their hands touched, an electric current ran through them, and Caitlyn was sure it was fate. But that thrill seemed to have disappeared after that, so she was worried. What Caitlyn didn’t realize was that the mind-blowing kiss she had now was with Marco, Lazzaro’s twin brother and her true soul mate!

Today is Dilly's wedding. The preparations were all steadily underway when she discovers a shocking truth from a conversation between the groom and her father. He proposed to her because he had his eye on some reward? It was all a plan devised by her father because he was worried about his thirty-year-old, single daughter. Thoroughly humiliated, Dilly runs up the aisle and out of the church still clad in her wedding dress. She jumps into the white limousine that was supposed to be used for her honeymoon and instructs the handsome chauffeur to drive away. Dilly just isn't meant to fall in love. She'll never be able to get married. While staring in astonishment at Dilly's angry antics, chauffeur Mick is roped into playing the part of her groom...?

Liz works for Cam, an entrepreneur who owns businesses all over Australia. Usually Liz is cool and composed on the job, but this time she's in trouble. The woman who was supposed to escort Cam to a party that night cancelled at the last minute! Cam challenges Liz, saying that since she's such a talented secretary, she should be able to take over the job as his escort. Liz decides to show him who she really is under her plain old suit, but when Liz sees a certain someone at the party, she turns white as a sheet and runs from the scene.?Now she really has Cam’s attention!

"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...?!

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Twin sisters with opposite personalities… Which one will the prince choose? Ever since they were kids, Alessandra has felt inferior to her twin sister, Dea, who’s naturally charming, beautiful and the life of the party. Alessandra’s college boyfriend broke her heart by dropping her the moment he met Dea, and ever since, Alessandra has thrown herself into her research. Then one day a man named Rini appears. He’s like a prince straight out of a fairy tale. He greets Alessandra and steals her heart in an instant. But when Alessandra learns that he met Dea first, she figures it’s all over. But what if she’s wrong about what Rini really wants?

All Ell wants is for a warrior to come along and kill him so he can finally achieve a comfortable life after death. Just when it looks like he might get his wish, he accidentally kills the warrior who came to end his life. But Ell soon comes up with a different plan: if there are no warriors to kill him, he can raise one himself! So Ell the dragon, Lafi the magician, and Dino the baby warrior become an unconventional family. However, Ell soon discovers it’s harder than he thought to teach a baby combat moves!

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…

Darcy inherited a childcare business from her grandmother, but she was tricked by the man she fell in love with and he stole everything she had… Now she’s on the verge of bankruptcy. So when she gets a phone call that a man named Colin needs a nanny and is willing to pay an exorbitant salary, she can’t turn him down. With the money he will pay, she could restore the fortunes of her day care! So she goes to Colin’s house to accept his offer as a live-in nanny for six months. She’s surprised to find that he’s so handsome. Imagine how surprised she’ll be when learns he’s a Mediterranean prince!

He believed she was the one, but chose another woman to marry. Eloise was at the airport when she had a fateful encounter with the "king of hotels," Vito. It is love at first sight and their burning desire for one another ends in them making love. Bewildered by her own out-of-character actions, Eloise wonders if the love she feels is true. Just then, another woman named Carla appears, claiming that she is to marry Vito! Vito stumbles to explain himself, so Eloise despairingly flees the scene. Eloise is hurt and resolves to forget about him, but then a few months later, something begins to happen within her body!

Suzu's dream is to become an assistant to her beloved writer, Kyousuke Sasaki. While she's looking for him all over, she gets a job as an assistant to another novelist, also named Kyousuke. The only difference is that the Kyousuke she's working with now writes novels for adults and seems to have different plans for Suzu... Their turbulent relationship is riddled with misunderstandings and secrets, but their passion burns like fire.

Ginny's life as a doctor is put on hold when she returns to her hometown, Cradle Lake, to care for her brother in his final days. It's there that she meets Fergus, a fellow doctor with a dark past. He's taken a job in the small, sleepy town to heal his old wounds. Drawn to the pain and suffering they see in each other's eyes, they eventually fall for one another. "Just one night, Fergus. Make me forget it all," begs Ginny as she opens her heart to him. She never imagined that one lone night would bring them all-new pain…

Courtney, a young horse farm owner, is glammed up to mingle with high society at a racecourse, hoping to find an investor for her business. Socializing with the rich, dolled up in a frilly dress, puts tomboy Courtney out of her comfort zone, but she has no choice. She has to find a way to repay the debt her deceased mother left her. She meets Jack, a mysterious man who seems interested in investing, but she had no idea he would come to see the farm for himself. Spending days with this handsome man, under the same roof...?

Reunited with the only man to have ever broken my heart… To escape from the unwanted advances of her mom’s new boyfriend, Laurel flees into a hotel penthouse and is astonished when she’s greeted by Christiano, her former brother-in-law and first crush. Who would have guessed she would see him again like this? Christiano offers to help her…but only in exchange for her body! Laurel knows she should refuse the cruel offer, as this is the man who trampled over her feelings all those years ago. But she’s never been able to forget him…

Isobel and her lawyer are on their way to meet with her husband, Leandros, a businessman, to end their marriage. It’s been three years since I left him and during that time I never heard from him. But now he contacts me only to file for divorce. "I don’t want any of your money, so let’s end this as soon as possible." That’s what I meant to tell him, but when I see him, my husband acts strangely... This is the final chapter of the four-book series Hot-Blooded Husbands. That couple reappears, as well!

"I finally got to see you again. I'm not letting you go this time." Arisu finds herself reunited with her Korean ex-boyfriend, now the President of her company. He was just a good-for-nothing two-timer, or so she thought…

Eunji Cha suffers from an undiagnosed medical disorder and frequently experiences violent seizures. After enduring years of abuse by her parents she wakes up from one particular episode and discovers the horrible truth behind the peculiarities of her family. The scars left on her mind after that day forever shape her character as she battles her inner demons and tries to keep her fiendish desire to murder at bay. Years down the road, her fate becomes intertwined with a man whose very nature is a stark reflection of her own. Will Eunji be able to contain the darkness within her? And will she come out on top in this perilous game of cat-and-mouse?

Merry, a server, was in desperate need of money. One day out of the blue, Peter, one of her customers, asked her to pretend to be his girlfriend over the Thanksgiving holiday. He seemed serious and the money would certainly help, so Merry accepted his proposal. When they went to visit his family, his sweet mother welcomed Merry with open arms. She believed that Merry and her son were going to get married. Merry was concerned that Peter's mother was getting too excited about their fake relationship. But she was more concerned about how Peter and his son didn't seem to get along. Perhaps there was a way Merry could help Peter and his family...

Rosa, the only daughter of a wealthy family, receives urgent news that her father has been in an accident. Together with her fiancé, she hurries to the Middle Eastern kingdom of Dyrham, where she meets the country's gorgeous sheikh. Did he have something to do with her father's accident? Though tormented with suspicion, she finds herself mesmerized by him. Can she stop herself?

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