【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】After a tragic carriage accident, Iain retreated from society for four years. Meanwhile, his childhood friend Julia grew into a beautiful young lady of the aristocracy. Just seeing her again makes Iain’s heart pound! After narrowly surviving the accident, Iain lost both his smile and the zest he once had for life. But when the two of them kiss under the mistletoe, Julia feels all the passion that he’d been hiding… That kiss set her heart on fire! She’ll do anything to keep from losing him again.
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.
She’d always planned to save herself for marriage…so Mia is shocked when she decides to make love to a man she just met! They met at a party, and he made the world drift out of focus as she fell under his spell—it was as if they were destined to find each other. But she came back to herself when she woke up and ran out before even asking his name. Three months later, Mia was invited to her friend’s house for dinner and was shocked to see the man she’d made love to standing in front of her. He must never know that Mia is carrying a huge secret.
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.
Sophia was engaged to the son of an earl, but he spent years overseas and ended up dying in an accident on his way back to the United Kingdom. She was devastated, but there was more bad news to come. Her family’s debt had piled up, and they were on the verge of going bankrupt. Then her fiancé’s twin brother, Callum, showed up and asked her to marry him. He made a promise to his late brother that he would take care of Sophia. It’s the perfect opportunity for her, but still it is hard for Sophia to marry him without love…
He fell in love the moment he walked in the door… Patrick is ready to confront Isobel, who’s having an affair with his sister’s husband. But when he meets her, she doesn’t seem like the type to go after a married man. Would his brother-in-law really cheat with such a plain, shabbily dressed woman? Could she be hiding an evil heart under her mask of innocence? And why can’t Patrick stop thinking about her?
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!!
Will this housekeeper find love in paradise? Davina is a woman with a troubled past and a marriage she’d rather forget about. She travels to an island in the south where she gets a job as a housekeeper. When her employer, Steve, lays eyes on her for the first time, he’s caught off guard and blurts out his inappropriate thoughts. He didn’t expect her to be such a beautiful woman. Davina has to wonder what sort of a man he is to have said such things and concludes that he must imagine himself the prince of this island! She slowly realizes that this man has a lot more to offer and that she could all too easily fall in love with him. Still, she’s known charming men in the past and paid the price for trusting them.
On the basis of the meticulous transcription/observation process of 'Conversation Analysis', this book observes recurrent patterns in sequences where Japanese speakers negotiate agreement and disagreement. It contributes to the growing body of research on 'interaction and grammar' by examining how linguistic recourses are utilized for constructing turns and anticipating the upcoming course of interaction. More specifically, it focuses on the recurrent use of two structurally different types of connective expressions: clause-initial connectives and clause-final connective particles. The study examines the occurrences of these causal and contrastive markers with reference to their sequential environment and the resulting interaction. While the introductory chapters situate this approach in the current literature, the main analytical chapters investigate the ways in which 'delivery of agreement', 'delivery of disagreement', and 'pursuit for agreement' are performed with the use of the different types of connective expressions. As one of the earliest conversation analytic studies of Japanese, this book also addresses methodological issues concerning cross-linguistic, cross-cultural studies of human interaction.
This book examines the settlement patterns and intersite variability in lithic assemblages of Early Jomon (ca. 5000 BP) hunter-gatherers in Japan. A model is proposed that links regional settlement patterns and intersite lithic assemblage variability to residential mobility. The results of this study suggest that the Early Jomon people were not sedentary, as previously assumed, but instead moved their residential basis seasonally. The implications of this result are discussed in the context of the development of hunter-gatherer cultural complexity in general and the course of Japanese prehistory in particular.
Japan's Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 destroyed the homes, livelihoods, and communities of many elderly people. Some of the most vulnerable survivors spent up to five years in temporary shelters before settling into publicly subsidized apartments or dispersing into the general population. Public scrutiny of the post-earthquake recovery drew attention to the challenges of community generation and the loneliness, isolation, and death experienced by elderly earthquake victims. Bringing together quantitative and qualitative analysis of media discourse, public policy, and ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines the earthquake's long-term effects of temporary shelters and public reconstruction housing for elderly residents. The first study to utilize NVivo qualitative research software in a Japanese research context, this is an original contribution to natural disaster literature, as well as health and welfare policy in societies that, like Japan, are undergoing rapid urbanization and population aging.
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!
My suppressed memories come back at the hands of a gorgeous con artist… Jolanda cannot believe her eyes when she sees her adopted brother, Vito Velardi, after all these years. Despite being a family traitor, the Sicilian man is as gorgeous as ever. His alluring smile makes Jolanda almost forget that he separated her from her twin brother, Nick. But Vito comes bearing bad news—Nick is sick. Jolanda agrees to accompany Vito on a trip to Sicily, where she’ll meet Nick and face her forgotten past.
Two orphaned runaways are rescued by the owner of a luxury carriage… September 1789. Prudence, disguised as a boy, has escaped from a horrible orphanage with her friend Dan. Just when they are about to collapse by the side of the road, they’re rescued by the owner of a luxury carriage and everything changes… The first of three volumes of historical romance begins as a child from the slums meets a wealthy aristocrat and falls in love!
Two orphaned runaways are rescued by the owner of a luxury carriage… September 1789. Prudence, disguised as a boy, has escaped from a horrible orphanage with her friend Dan. Just when they are about to collapse by the side of the road, they’re rescued by the owner of a luxury carriage and everything changes… The first of three volumes of historical romance begins as a child from the slums meets a wealthy aristocrat and falls in love!
Thirty-nine days until Christmas... A man knocks on the door of the Secret Santa Association, where Kirsten works. Looking somewhat sad, with eyes filled with pain, he says he’s there to help. But judging from his looks, he doesn’t seem the type to volunteer. She sends him away, saying, “All we need is fifty children’s jackets. There’s nothing else you could do right now.” And he returns with the jackets shortly after. Who is he? Did God send me a handsome and compassionate man?
Helena marries the man she's always adored, the viscount Carleton. But her husband believes that their matrimony was all so that she could gain his fortune and he refuses to open his heart to her. He even goes so far as to declare that her son is no child of his and goes off to war, only to go missing. Everything after that is a living hell for Helena. Her husband's family treats her like a hussy, cuts her off. But seven years later, while she's been diligently raising her son, her husband suddenly shows up, ragged and on the verge of collapsing!
Alex’s first love is the sexy and handsome CEO of an international conglomerate. In order to get even a little bit closer to him, she dyes her blond hair brown, puts on glasses and fakes her age to become his assistant. But it’s so painful to be near him all the time when she has no chance of being loved by him… Then they set off on a business trip to Greece together. Now is her chance to show him who she really is!
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?
Six years ago, Judith, an aristocrat from an old, noble house, tearfully left her first love, Dan. In order to stop her stepmother from spreading rumors that Dan was an orphan from the slums and to protect his honor, she had no choice but to abandon him. Now she's twenty-five and has chosen to marry a man other than Dan. Getting married is her only chance to escape the terrible years-long abuse from her stepmother. But with the ceremony close at hand, Dan suddenly appears?she cannot believe her eyes! This is a spin-off story starring Dan, who was a side character in The Love Child.
Elizabeth is a university lecturer who was hired to catalog a private library at an esteemed mansion in Cornwall. But she's at a loss when the elderly master of the home passes away, even after contacting his relatives. Then one night, a mysterious man breaks into the mansion. Clothed all in black with a body to die for, he's just like the hero in one of her favorite romance novels! Elizabeth is charmed in an instant, but she regains her senses and attacks the intruder. But it only takes another moment for him to subdue her!
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.
He fell in love the moment he walked in the door… Patrick is ready to confront Isobel, who’s having an affair with his sister’s husband. But when he meets her, she doesn’t seem like the type to go after a married man. Would his brother-in-law really cheat with such a plain, shabbily dressed woman? Could she be hiding an evil heart under her mask of innocence? And why can’t Patrick stop thinking about her?
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.
Glory, the 20-year-old daughter of the prominent Sutton Family, would rather devote herself to restoring the family name than look for a potential husband…despite the constant meddling of her aunt. She decides to restore Queen’s Well, the spa that’s been her family’s legacy, but is bothered everywhere she goes by Oberon, the arrogant duke who is visiting her town. But unbeknownst to either of them, the water in Queen’s Well is working its magic on the bickering pair, slowly drawing them into each other’s hearts!
Grace was a baroness until she lost her home and all her possessions when her father died, saddling her with a mountain of debt. Although she’s an anxious wreck, she decides to start working at a bakery to earn some money. But once she’s finally settled into her new life, an old marquis, a customer of the bakery, leaves her an unexpected inheritance. She is to receive a house and an annual allowance, but in exchange, she has to care for the marquis’s son, who is a prisoner of war, while he’s on parole. Confused, she follows the will and goes to pick up the marquis’s son at Dartmoor Prison, not knowing that it will change her life forever…
Alice’s parents died and left her with nothing, so her uncle took her in, but he treats her harshly. When her uncle and her cousins leave for Christmas, a mysterious man named Captain Grayling shows up at Alice’s door in a dashing military uniform. He was on his way to spend the holidays with friends and family when he and his children were caught in a blizzard. They spend several days with Alice, but when they are making preparations to leave, Captain Grayling asks Alice to leave with them. At first, she is elated, but then she realizes all he’s looking for is a governess for his children… She realizes he could never want to marry her. Hurt and betrayed, Alice tells him she’s staying with her uncle!
Her father’s research project can only be completed with photographs of the frieze in the desert, and the only way she can get there is by joining Fraser Mallory’s survey expedition. However, there are two problems: her father and Fraser had a falling out with each other a long time ago, and Fraser never works with women. But there is a way to solve both problems at once?she’ll become “Corey” and pass herself off as a man!
This lie from my past threatens to destroy my first love… After the death of her parents, Marianne suffers at the hands of her tyrant stepbrother, her new guardian. If she stays, she will lose her innocence and her life to him, so she decides to flee to London and soon ends up working as a governess for the daughter of a widow in mourning in the countryside. As Marian settles in at the manor, she’s increasingly attracted to the new earl, Ash, who is taking over the estate. But then she learns that he is a friend of her stepbrother…
A gentleman came for me, a maid. Are you sure I’m a noble lady? Jane’s father died when she was eight years old, and she and her mother lived in poverty for a long time, but now she lives a peaceful life as a maid for a kind countess. One day, a handsome man named Kendal visited the mansion. While serving tea, Jane couldn’t help staring at him. He was well-dressed. He had a deep voice. He told her that his uncle, a wealthy Yorkshire man, had asked him to find a woman and bring her to him. “Her name is Ms. Jane Bailey.” M-Me? Jane is startled by the unexpected words.
Adriana is the capable secretary of the crown prince of Kitzinia. Her foremothers sullied the family name by seducing kings and reducing them to ruin, but Adriana has thrown herself into her work in an effort to restore her family’s honor. Having come to respect her for these efforts, the crown prince gives Adriana her most difficult assignment yet?keeping an eye on his scandalous younger brother, Prince Patricio. Adriana, however, soon realizes that she is becoming more attracted to Patricio every day. She never wanted to fall in love with a member of the royal family, but she can’t help herself. Is her bloodline cursed after all?
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