CAROLE MORTIMER

All I want is for him to look at me as a mature woman… After her mother, a former top model, commits suicide, Chelsea is hounded by the media. Her father sends her to London to live with his lawyer’s son, Lucas, in order to shield her from the press. She’s known Lucas since she was a little girl, and he was even her first love, so she’s disappointed when Lucas still treats her like a child, even though she’s all grown up now! But despite his treatment of her and the fact that he has a girlfriend, Chelsea’s love for him only grows stronger…

A marriage that only hurt both of us. Would it have been better if we were lovers? Leonie, an eternally unlucky girl, was suddenly trapped in an elevator at a client's office she visited. I've been used to such accidents since I was a child. I won't be easily swayed. However, right then her estranged husband, Adam, showed up to help her, and he was the president of this company!　When she saw him again after eight months, the arrogance of the past was gone and he was full of kindness. As an apology, he invited her to dinner, and Leonie was tempted into spending the night with him. And then Adam made an unexpected proposal...!

【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Cynthia is a country girl from England visiting a childhood friend in New York. Even though she attends parties along with famous celebrities, she hasn’t been influenced by their behavior or their way of thinking. At one of these parties she takes a break on the balcony, where she runs into a silver-eyed, handsome man. Initially awkward, they eventually become comfortable talking to each other. He finds Cynthia’s personality refreshing. Little does she know that this stranger is the world-famous Lucian Steele! Although they live in completely different worlds, fate has brought them together. Are wedding bells in their future?

I’ll happily be his lover, even if it’s just for a job… Darcy works as a secretary for charming businessman Reed. He has always dated beautiful, sophisticated women, the exact opposite of Darcy, a country girl who’s come to London to work. So Darcy is surprised when Reed suddenly asks her to come with him to visit his parents in Florida, pretending to be his lover! She knows it’s for work, but is there a chance that Reed will look at her as a woman and not just as his unsophisticated secretary?

【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Lexie hid her identity to get close to Lucan St. Claire, a duke from the family that hated her grandmother. She wanted to see if he really was a heartless man, so she became his private secretary. But she was trapped by a dilemma from the very first day when Lucan insisted she accompany him on a business trip to the St Claire estate. Her grandmother had terrible experiences at both that mansion and in the village. If Lexie stays there, her identity could be revealed!

Secretary Angie has secretly been in love with her boss, Riccardo, for years. But Riccardo is rich and incredibly handsome. There is no way a man who dates beautiful woman after beautiful woman would ever notice plain old Angie. Just as Angie resolves to move on from her painful one-sided love, Riccardo suddenly gives her a red dress to wear to the office Christmas party. Though hesitant, Angie appears at the party all dolled up, only for Riccardo to give her a fiery look and shoot icy, accusing words: "What are you trying to do?"

Am I really going to pretend to be this man’s lover when he accuses me of having an affair with his best friend? Charly is shocked when a man breaks into the flat she is renting. The man turns out to be Aaron, the best friend of the flat’s owner, Matt. Aaron accuses Charly of having an affair with Matt, saying she needs to play pretend because Matt’s wife is there. What does he even mean? Then Aaron kisses her, leaving her bewildered in front of Matt’s wife! Charly goes along with pretending to be Aaron’s lover, but what will she do when she finds out that he’s really the Hotel King—her competitor?

Joey, who is a lawyer, has always admired her brother-in-law, Gideon. She looks up to him as a fellow lawyer, but is attracted to him as a man. Gideon is intelligent yet sexy?my ideal man. I’m so drawn to him, but he won’t accept me as a romantic companion. Perhaps I just don’t have any female charms. Joey tries her best to act like a woman who is highly experienced with relationships when Gideon says the unexpected: “I think we can be great friends with benefits.”

Were all the sweet whispers and kisses just a clever trick? January works with her two sisters to protect her late parents’ farm. One day, while earning extra money working part-time as a singer, she meets a mysterious man. His name is Max, and his confident blue eyes captivate January. She swore she would never open her heart to a man again, but she’s touched by Max’s tenderness and ends up sharing a sweet kiss with him. But what will happen when she discovers that he’s a lawyer for a company that is planning to buy her ranch?

Bella finds herself at F1 racing king Gabriel Danti's house after accepting a friend's party invitation. The beautiful scenery on the outskirts of London can't compete with the noise of the party, though. And she can't find Gabriel, the beloved international celebrity, either! But while looking for a bathroom, lo and behold she finds the gorgeous man tucked away in the house. He woos her and, her head in the clouds, Bella goes to bed with him. Never thinking it might be the last time they ever speak......

They’ve started off on the wrong foot, but fate might bring them together yet… His father, whom Rogan hasn’t seen in more than a decade, has passed away, so he returns to his family home in Cornwall for the first time in a long while. Completely unaware that a beautiful woman would be there when he arrived, Rogan assumes she’s his father’s lover. But college professor Elizabeth is only there to catalog Rogan's father’s library. In fact, she’s just begun. Not only has her employer passed away, but now his son has shown up and made outrageous assumptions about her! She’d have liked to continue her work but decides it’s best to call it quits. Elizabeth doesn’t think for a moment that she could fall for Rogan, no matter how wildly sexy he might be!

Annie takes a new job as a nanny for the Diamond family. While she adores the little girl in her charge, she is confused by the attentions of Anthony Diamond, the girl’s uncle. When Rufus Diamond, the girl’s father, comes home, he takes an interest in Annie, as well. But why did the previous nanny quit so suddenly? Is there truly a curse on the brides of the Diamond family?

As her guardian, he is supposed to protect her, but he finds himself falling for her... At the beginning of the 19th century, Gray, an English aristocrat, had been neglecting the estate he inherited from his late brother, never visiting it and leaving everything to the housekeeper. But when he heard a rumor that the servants had left and the mansion was falling into disrepair, he hurried to drive the carriage. As he stepped into the dark mansion, he hears the words, "Stop! A gun is aimed straight at your heart!" from a young woman, seemingly alone. She seems to have mistaken me for a bandit. The shot hit him in the arm, and he looked at her in the moonlight... there she was, breathtakingly beautiful.

If only he weren't an enemy of us sisters, I could be honest with him... March, who works for a real estate company, is surprised by a man who walks in. Early in the morning, that man interrupted her in front of her car and took her parking space! Handsome with blue eyes, he introduces himself as Will and tells her he is looking for a room to rent for a short period of time. Then she has just the room for him. March, who wants to get back at Will for what happened in the morning, makes a face of disrespect and introduces him to a room in a remote part of the farm, her home. But March doesn't know that Will is actually an employee of a large corporation that wants to buy her family's farm!

Dora Baxter is dutiful and loyal, running her late father’s bookstore in the wake of the passing of her fiancé. Izzy Baxter is fun-loving and carefree, falling for the handsome global explorer Griffin Sinclair. The first problem is that Griffin is the brother of the deceased fiancé, and the second? Izzy and Dora are just two sides of Isadora Baxter, a woman who can’t decide if she should hold on to the past or embrace an unsure future. She won’t find the answer to her problems in a dusty old book, but she might find them in Griffin!

Molly is depressed. Her brother and his wife have invited her to spend the Christmas holiday with them, but when she arrives at their home, she learns she will also be spending it with the last man she ever wanted to see, Gideon. They had met three years ago, a chance encounter at the house of Gideon's brother. Seeing Molly in a disgraceful mess, Gideon assumed she was his brother's mistress, and he's hated her ever since. Completely unaware of their history, Molly's brother and sister-in-law try to play cupid to the two of them. All Molly can do is sigh.