JOSEI

How could this have happened? The man Princess Pippa of Chantaine fell for was Nic Lafitte, whose family is the sworn enemy of Pippa’s family. She wished that she didn’t know who he was. She wished that she could simply enjoy being in his confident and regal arms and revel in the heat of his lips. But once she discovered he was the enemy, she had to squelch her feelings so as not to betray her country. Yet after calling an end to their relationship, they encounter each other again. Is it her destiny to face him?

Eliza works as a seamstress at a bridal shop. One day, a million-dollar wedding dress enters the shop, which she is fascinated by and tries on, but for some reason is unable to take off. In a panic, Eliza flees the shop, and gets in a limo that had just arrived at that moment. Inside, she meets a handsome man in a tuxedo. Even though he is on his way to his own wedding, Eliza asks him for help. As he reaches out to assist her, little did they know, that they were headed towards unforeseen danger...

Why had she bound herself to a man who didn’t love her? Meghan left her hometown to work as a waitress in Italy. One day she was at work when the wealthy Alessandro came in for lunch, and she immediately caught his attention. Having experienced a tragic relationship in the past, Alessandro sensed something familiar and comforting radiating from her. They spent some more time together and then he unexpectedly proposed to her. They were joined in a loveless marriage. But why? And why had Meghan agreed to become the bride of a man who didn’t love her?

Rico has it all; as the famous chef of “A Passion For Pasta,” he’s rich enough to kill time in a monthly poker game with his friends. Still, he’s bankrupt when it comes to love. When a bet is taken too far, the stakes may be too high. He’s challenged his opponent, Renee, to be his mistress for a month! Can she add a little spice to his life, or will she make his pot boil over?

Ester is a first class concierge working in New York. One day she got an offer to work for a newly opened luxurious hotel in Dubai, which she eagerly took. The owner of the hotel turned out to be an irresistible sheikh Nasir, who charmed Ester with his charisma. But there is something that stops Ester to show her feelings to him...

On the trail to find out the truth of who is a real traitor, Alexandra and Richard are doubly undercover. First, they’ve entered into a marriage only as part of a contract, and second, Alexandra’s been masquerading as a man to sneak into places proper women dare not enter. Despite these disguises, will they be able to show their true selves to each other?

Suzuki Ryuto is an introverted, timid college student. Every day he puts on a fake smile, trying his best to blend into a group of outgoing students even despite cruel teasing over his virginity. One day he comes to a drinking party where he meets a beautiful girl, Kokoa. Per her request, he pretends to be her boyfriend to ward off the stalker who has been harassing the girl. That tender love was the beginning of a great tragedy...

Carlene is hired as a housekeeper by young millionaire Win. Though he says during the interview that he is not looking to fill the position of wife, he is quick to make a feverish invitation. Saying he won’t make commitments for the future, Win offers to share his bed. Though bewildered, Carlene is also intensely attracted to him. One night, the two seem close to crossing the line, but she stops herself at the last minute. Win is offended, but little does he know that Carlene is still a virgin!

Get out, ye bloodthirsty half-breed!" Since the infamous Battle of Falkirk, Cristiane MacDhiubh had these words -- and worse -- hurled at her in the village streets. Half Scot, half English, she could claim no place as home -- until the Lord of Bitterlee, as gallant a knight as any could dream, came in search of a bride...! Marriage had been naught but sadness for Adam Sutton, yet duty demanded he wed again. Cristiane MacDhiubh, as fey and wild as his own island fiefdom, might rouse his forgotten passions. But brave of heart though she might be, could Cristiane ever heal his sorrowing soul?

Budding interior designer Cami has one weakness: she can never say no. Over and over she’s been forced to go on disastrous blind dates, much to the irritation of her carpenter, Tanner. One night her date abandons her in the mountains after his car breaks down! Alone in the darkness, all she can dream of is Tanner rescuing her… Will Tanner be able to rescue her from her terrible dates as well as her own compliant nature?

Annie is a target of hoodlums from the school where she teaches. One day, she gets rescued by a stranger. His name is Gabe. Not knowing who he is, she decides to hire him as her bodyguard. He then starts protecting her and doesn’t let her out of his sight for a moment. Annie is actually counting the remaining days of her life. She wishes to spend the rest of her short life with Gabe…but she has no idea that Gabe is facing his own plight.

Wealthy socialite Jane finds herself held captive in Costa Rica after getting caught up in matters concerning secrets of national security. Former intelligence agent Grant is sent to rescue her from where she is being held deep in the jungle. But once they meet, Jane seems to have no concern for the man who has risked his life to help her escape. But slowly they find their irritation turning into burning passion…

Tachibanaya, a ningyo-yaki pastry shop with eight generations of history is located in the heart of downtown Tokyo. It is home to the stubborn Takuo and kind Kahoru, as well as their three beautiful daughters. This heart-warming comedy follows the three Tachibana daughters as they make their way in the world while their family struggles with the difficulties of finding someone to inherit the shop. [uploaded on manhuascan]

Travis Falcon has leaped to stardom in a single bound, but he has one problem. The gossip rags are making a fuss over a certain incident between him and a woman, so his boss has ordered him to date a proper lady. Just then, he encounters the perfect candidate for the role: Charlene, who found her way into the studio following another actor. Travis and she decide to pretend to be dating, and ultimately, they forge a bond like that between brother and sister. Until one night, when everything changes…

Eternal love under the magnolia tree. A billionaire’s gorgeous romance story swirling with love and hate.♪ “I will love you forever.” Fallen noble Charlotte has never forgotten those words. She exchanged them under the magnolia tree on their property with the man she loved, Gregory. Six years later, she attends a ball where fate brings the two back together. However Gregory is now equipped with both dignity and style as he’s become a fantastic billionaire. However, he’s here to lay the foundation for his sweet revenge against Charlotte?

She’s fallen in love with him all over again, but he’s betrayed and hurt her in the past. Single mother Carrie has been sick for a while, and now her child has been taken away from her by the Child Protection Services. At a loss, she thinks of her son’s father, Dominic Savage. She fell in love with him eight years ago, but she left him after learning that he had a fiancée. She believed she was just a plaything to him. But she has no choice but to rely on his wealth and power now. In desperation, she visits Dominic and is taken aback by his proposition. He says he wants her to live with him…in the same house with his wife!

Orthez Acryl is the Duke of Tessa’s eldest daughter. She is a beautiful young lady who managed to capture the heart of the kingdom's crown prince. However, rather than become the crown princess she requested marriage to an Earl of a far away land called Felluah... Two people who never met each other agreed to marry the other... what motivates these two behind their decision...?

I want someone to love all of me, even my secrets... Abby works as a receptionist at a clinic for an orthopedic surgeon named Ethan. Being betrayed by a former lover has given her a distrust towards men, but for some reason, Ethan also holds a disgust towards women. One day, he asks her to accompany her on a trip...and offers to pay her to pretend to be his lover. Without thinking, she instinctively turns him down. However, something unforeseen happens. Her beloved teacher is the victim of a robbery and has lost a huge sum of money. Her desire to help leads her to her decision. She will accept Ethan's offer. She never thought that she would have her heart stolen once again...

Polly Talbot is well educated but rather plain compared to her twin sisters. She works for Sir Ronald, typing up his manuscript on Greek and Roman history. Sam Gervis takes on the project after Ronald’s death, and Polly moves into his home he can oversee her work. While living there, she realizes there’s more to life than her rural lifestyle and decides to become a nurse. It will get her away from Sam, as well, who is very severe with her and would never be interested in a plain girl like her when he’s engaged to a beauty like Deirdre. They can’t get away from each other so easily, however, as Sam works as a doctor in the same hospital.

Country girl Henrietta has been abandoned quite suddenly by the man she thought of as her sweetheart. While grieving in the shadows during a London ball, she meets a man who is bewilderingly handsome. That man is Count Deben, and he has a reputation as a playboy. Perhaps he’s grown bored of the girls who swarm to him like bees to nectar, but why would he be interested in her? Henrietta is surveying him cautiously when Count Deben directs a challenging gaze her way and declares that he will make her the brightest flower of high society.

In this story, Earth is actually made up of two worlds that coexist in seemingly perfect harmony: the Reverse World which thrives on magic and the Surface World which has been developed through technology. When his best friend Rei disappears, Toki, an inhabitant of the Reverse World, sets off to the Surface World in search of him. But the discoveries he makes along the way begin to hint at a conspiracy that could shake both worlds to the core.

Pippa has been a guest at the Alderly estate for a long while, ever since her father went missing. With few apparent prospects, she does her best not to be a burden on Lady Alderly and those around her. Meanwhile, Hermione, the young lady of the house, waits for Dominic Alderly to return from the war so they can be wed. But when Dominic returns, his war wounds horrify everyone who has been waiting for him. The only one who doesn’t seem to mind them is the compassionate Pippa, whose beauty and kindness quickly capture Dominic’s heart.

Just who is this mysterious "Dr. Hunk" that Kelsey's been delivering mail to? The cute and young postal worker has been delivering packages to an apparent recluse, but when she happens to meet him at the mailbox one day, he's anything but! And though he’s a gentleman and a scholar, Professor Garrick Booth is also all about bugs. Can he gather enough confidence to ask Kelsey out? And can a professor and a mail carrier find enough to talk about between mail and moths?

The marriage of Luciano "Luc" De Santis to the beautiful Bianca was supposed to go off without a hitch, but Elizabeth Hadley ended up kissing him before the wedding! When Bianca disappears with in a possible embezzlement scheme with Elizabeth's brother Matthew, it's up to Luciano to save her family's company at a simple cost: Elizabeth must become his bride, and the wedding must commence. Can Elizabeth sell her single life away to save her family, and what will she do if Bianca comes back?

Freya became part of the Falcon family after her mother married Amos. So, when she is dumped by her fiancé right before her wedding, her stepbrother, Jackson, comes to rescue her. He whisks her away from the church and kindly consoles her. Freya used to be attracted to him, but knowing he sees her as a sister, she had to seal away her feelings for him. When his kindness reignites her feelings, she learns the unbelievable truth. It was Jackson who ruined her wedding!

How long do I have to live this way? Eve wonders. She was tricked into becoming her boss’s mistress. Then one day, she meets a man at a party—his name is Carl and he’s a movie director. She is instantly attracted to him, but the moment he learns that Eve is Max’s mistress, he throws hurtful words at her. Max then makes a most cruel request: he wants her to play a role in Carl’s upcoming movie in order to ruin it! If only she had the power to say no to Max’s demands…

Alinor is getting ready to marry the diplomat Gabriel in an attempt to run from her past. But just when the priest asks if anyone objects to the union, a man's powerful voice shatters the silence. "This marriage isn't valid!" The voice is unforgettable. It's the voice of the Prince of Parvan, Alinor's ex-husband, Kavian. Why is he here?? Didn't he divorce her? Nevertheless, Kavian carries her away from the church by force!

At university and at her part-time cafe job, Haru keeps running into her classmate Hong Sihoo, who for some reason always seems to avoid her. Plus, his prickly attitude doesn’t help — Haru definitely doesn’t like him. Then, she gets dumped by her boyfriend again, this time for being “emotionless like a stone.” Drowning her sorrows in booze, Haru suddenly gets bitten by Sihoo!? Before she can even process the shock, she’s surprised by a pleasure she’s never felt before… When Haru discovers Sihoo’s true identity, she proposes a contract relationship where they each get what they want. From there, their relationship starts to change in ways neither of them expected…

Sussex, England. At the beginning of the 19th century, a bride marches into her wedding with a gun in hand, ready to kill her groom. What has led to Alexandra Rawdon drawing arms against her future husband, Lord Richard Anthony Deverell? She agrees to an ultimatum: Anthony has six months to prove that he did not kill her father. If he can't, she can end things. To what lengths will Anthony go to prove to his wife that he's not her father's murderer?

It's a time of military conflict... Chiho, daughter of an army general, finds herself with a new bodyguard, Army Major Jin Kamiya. The major is a stern, serious, military man, and Chiho just can't seem to get on with him, never able to relax. Still, when she looks at him, something reminds her of a boy she knew long ago... "Have we met before...? Or perhaps..." A story of eternal love amidst the strife of war...

“As long as she’s happy, I don’t care what happens to me!” So swore Jennifer when she gave birth to her daughter at the age of sixteen. Unable to support the child herself, she had to give her away. Twelve years later, she hasn’t heard a word about her daughter and Jennifer has become a successful car dealership manager. She is intent on her work when a charming man named Brian appears. He is looking for the birth mother of his twelve-year-old niece, who just lost her foster family to a terrible tornado.… Will Jennifer reunite with her daughter?

Summer, a social worker, is broadsided when Darius unexpectedly shows up at her office. He broke her heart seven years ago, but he has his own security firm and is here now to update the office security system. Worse, Darius has the gall to act as if nothing happened between them! Why did he break up with her in the worst possible way? She can’t trust him again until she knows the reason for their breakup. But at the same time, she can’t deny that she’s attracted to this new, even sexier Darius.

A oneshot yandere story.

Mashiro is kind, works in an office, and she's secretly living together with Takato, who she has feelings for. After she finds him homeless on the street for some mysterious reason, she takes him in. She spends her days happily, but there's something bothering her. That would be the fact that Mashiro and Takato make love... and they haven't even said they like one another. But, if she asks him how he feels, he might decide to move out. In contrast to the worrying Mashiro, how does Takato feel about all this...? They're living together and knocking boots, but are both of them unaware that they're actually lovey-dovey!? This is an everyday comforting youthful love story filled with throbbing hearts dedicated to all of our hard-working readers

One pre-Christmas day, Julie gets run over by a car driven by Roy Fletcher, the president of a leading IT company. He, however, offers settlement money by saying, "My car never touched you. You decided to fall off your bike. Don't even think about suing me." Unconvinced of his action, Julie goes to return the money. Wearing a cynical smile on his handsome face, he replies, "Are you trying to increase the amount?" What kind of man is he! So thinking, Julie gets captivated by this attractive man...!

Newbie teacher Hatsumi suffers from being treated like a child by her students. She turns to her former teacher, Mr. Kagami, for some advice...... "Mr. Kagami! Make me an adult!" Expecting sincere guidance from him, Hatsumi is surprised to see Kagami give her a strange look...... "You should know more about men." A completely transformed Kagami takes Hatsumi by surprise and......! "This is...... too much to handle!" You have to see the sadistic teachings of this very forward teacher!

Gabrielle, the manager of her own publishing house, is pursuing an autobiography by the prince of the Mediterranean kingdom of Castaldini. But Prince Durante keeps up a tight guard and she gets nowhere with her calls. With no other options, she ambushes him at a party and rouses his interest with a risky line: "I have one million dollars right here. Now will you give me an hour of your time?" Her proposal amuses the prince at first, but why is he filled with such contempt the next time he sees her…?

Love or duty… Mackenzie finds herself wavering between the two. Which one will she choose? Secret agent Mackenzie accompanies her boss on an undercover mission to Nice. She wasn’t about to let Nick, the director of the agency Omega, go on the dangerous mission alone. The problem is she has a secret—Mackenzie is in love with Nick, even though he’s her boss! But love has no place in her line of business. Love or duty… Mackenzie finds herself wavering between the two. Which one will she choose?

Melissa, defiant of her fathers wishes sets forth on a soul searching journey to Paris, the City of love and art. The young female artist unexpectedly meets her muse upon arriving in Paris. After avoiding some street thugs, the troublesome tomboy noble in disguise finds herself in a precarious situation and stumbles through a door belonging to a well-defined specimen of a man out of clothing. “Is this a statute of David?! But this is so....!” “I must have you model for me!”

Tania was raped by her boyfriend when she was seventeen. Wanting to not think about the past, she commits herself to her residence at the ER. She still has sleepless nights after hard days of working to avoid contact with men. She feels encouraged after meeting a handsome man, Jesse, who was sent to the ER, and begins to open herself up, heartened by Jesse’s tender love. But at the same time, strange incidents happen to her one after another...

Layla Laraway has a smooth-as-silk voice, but when most men meet her in person, they disregard her due to her full figure. Layla's gotten used to the idea that no man will ever fall in love with her, and she's got her work with Alzheimer's patients and her charity work to keep her busy. When she’s accidentally thrown onto the auction block at a charity event, Ethan Winslow bids on her when no one else does. Can Layla get past her insecurities and see that she’s found a good man, or will the love in her heart go to waste?

There’s nothing in the world Rize likes more than to curl up in her warm bed and doze away—just like she used to with her big brother when they were kids, before they were separated by their parents’ divorce. Working late shifts at a supermarket while attending university, she dreams of someday finding and reconnecting with her lost—and now grown-up—big brother. Her penchant for being able to nap in the break room draws the attention of Kairi, a co-worker who struggles with insomnia. Something about him reminds her of her big brother, and she finds herself growing closer to him…but when she discovers his terrifying secret, her whole world will be turned helter-skelter in this dark romantic thriller.

The cafe named "Oasis" that college co-ed Ichigo steps into is full of hunks.Will her order be for the first rate desserts they offer? Or is she looking for something even sweeter? Along with the title story this volume contains the one-shot stories.

Logan McKenzie is an attractive single man who heads a major company and has the blood of British nobility. The girls can't leave him alone! One day, a waitress serving lunch at his company starts crying and he can't help but pull her to him and comfort her. It isn't like him to be so kind! Her name is Darcy, and he suspects she's in trouble because of an affair with a married man. He wants to help her, so he goes to the restaurant where she works... Is he in love with her? No, it can't be!!

Cierra Elburke and Claude LeSpencer, both sharing backgrounds of illegitimacy, find refuge from the scorn of their family and society in each other’s arms. But when Cierra is forced to marry someone other than her beloved, she begs for another chance at life with a happier ending. Through the power of the “key” to the throne that is gifted by Claude, Cierra is given a chance to start over. Yet this time, she chooses to leave everything behind, including Claude, with hope for a better life. Has she made the right choice, or will this second chance prove more disastrous than her original fate?

"Could this all perhaps be Hwayeon's dream? Or did Yeonu create this fantasy world in her head to escape her harsh reality?" Hwayeon Ryu, without knowing the cause, falls into a coma at the age of six. Then after 12 long years of her father, Chung Ryu's persistent attempts, she finally opens her eyes. As she wakens from her prolonged sleep, she realizes she not only has her memories but has the memories of someone else's life, Yeonu Lee. Though startled at first, as time passes, she manages to adjust to her new life. Then one day, in hope to have lunch with her father, she pays a visit to the palace. But she ends up taking the wrong turn and finds herself in front of the notorious beast, coons prince Muyeong... The story unfolds then, when the soft and delicate flower Hwayeon meets the arrogant and fearless beast, Muyeong.

He's frozen in his own little world, until a whirlwind goddess lands there... Playboy gallery owner Mitch Hanover dates a new blonde beauty each month. When he begins looking for an auctioneer to work an auction he's sponsoring, he's captivated by the woman who shows up late to her interview. A woman who arrives in her pink corvette, hair streaming... Mitch is accidentally attracted to Veronica's charming smile and quick wit. But he has a tragic past and has vowed never to love again...!

Nico Sorano is in the dictionary under "free-spirited"...which makes her an instant celebrity at her art university. But one professor, the career making-or-breaking Kageiwa-sensei, has only a limited tolerance for her aggressively good-natured optimism. Unsurprisingly, Nico isn't fazed...it just means she's going to have to make her own way to stardom, with the help of her friend Mitsuki and the inscrutable, notorious Soichiro Togo. No matter what, it'll be an interesting college debut!