SUSAN MEIER

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

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!

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!

As the princess of Grannady’s assistant, Kristin invites large companies to help manage the princess’s finances. When she talks to businessman Dean Suminski in a Paris hotel, he’s cold to her, befitting his reputation as a difficult, moody genius. He tells her that he’ll listen if they can talk in the car on the way to the airport. He’s on his way to New York and making her an outrageous offer: he’ll pay her one hundred thousand dollars if she goes with him to a party that night!

I have to act as the fiancée of the man I love... It had been a year since Lila, a sober and serious woman, became the secretary of the wealthy Spanish billionaire, Miguel. I have secretly fallen in love with my friendly boss, but it's clear that he sees me as nothing more than a secretary. It's painful to be around him... When Lila decided to resign, Miguel offered her a tremendous deal. In exchange for giving her whatever she wants, he wanted her to pretend to be his fiancée for two weeks as they attended his brother's wedding. Pushing her feelings to the back of her mind, Lila played the role of her beloved's fiancée in exchange

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.

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?

Gina’s life has been completely upended in the space of a day! When Gina woke up, she found herself naked in a strange hotel room. Then a man came out of the bathroom wearing nothing but a towel—it was the vice president of her company, Gerrick! He asked her why she was embarrassed, but as he kissed her, she still couldn’t remember anything. There was a wedding ring on her ring finger. She remembered having drinks with him at a bar. Did they get so wrapped up in passion that they eloped in Las Vegas? Gina was already in a panic, but then she received word her father had collapsed... Could her life get any more out of control?

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...!

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.

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!

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?

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!

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?

An entrepreneur devoted to bachelorhood. Only one woman is in his heart… After Harper’s husband suddenly passes away, she’s left with enormous debts to pay off and a young daughter to care for. Swallowing her pride, she seeks out her late husband’s best friend, Seth McCallan, one of New York’s most powerful businessmen. Seth is unbearably handsome and kind, and he offers Harper a place to stay. He even helps her find a job and offers her protection. Why would this self-declared lifelong bachelor go so far to help her?

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!

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?

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!

Christmas is closing in fast, yet Wendy and little Harry are going to a factory she's been called to by Cullen, the factory's owner. She's never met him, but he's rumored to be a heartless playboy. Wendy has only just become the legal guardian of her late next-door neighbor's son, Harry. She and Harry were about to start getting ready to celebrate their first Christmas together, but now she's not sure that will happen… When the two of them bump into the waiting Cullen, literally, an electric current runs through Wendy's body. What in the world is this feeling?