Jewelry designer Tamara once again finds herself face-to-face with the Earl of Melton at a party. He's the CEO of a hugely successful company, with a strong build and masculine features, not to mention her father’s choice to be her husband! With the confidence of a conquering hero, once again he asks for her hand in marriage. Although she refuses him right away, in order to save the business she has worked so hard to start, eventually she agrees. They hatch a plan to become husband and wife for half a year, each pursuing their own business goals―him, a successful merger with her father’s company, her, a steady list of clientele―but can Tamara resist his passionate act?
Jake, a young businessman in New York, is called back to his homeland, Ruthenia, to succeed the throne and is followed by his personal assistant, Andi. Three years after the rebuilding of his country, Jake is pressured by this staff to get married within the month, by Independence Day. But at the daunting party where Jake must choose a future queen from the women of numerous powerful families, Andi gets into an accident and loses her memory! Unlike her usual brilliant but straitlaced self, Andi becomes naively charming. Then one day, the two are caught together by the media and Jake publicly announces that he is “engaged” to Andi.
Caron, a spoiled young lady who is a lawyer, is having her wedding in one week. Her fiancé cheated on her, but she can’t call off her wedding just because of that. She uses her work as an excuse to visit Canada. Unexpectedly, her client, Ewan, attracts her attention, his deep blue eyes wanting to know the truth…
Unable to let go of her hatred for her father, Olivia instead directs her negative feelings toward her husband, Caspar, and insists on a divorce. Caspar thus sets off on a motorcycle journey across America, hoping he can ultimately reconcile with his wife. Olivia returns home to England along with her daughters and finds the life of a single mother challenging. She has hardly anyone to turn to, as the rest of the Crighton family have their own lives to attend to. Just when Olivia thinks all is lost, she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, who wants to make amends with his family. Can she really let this man back into her life? Could doing so heal her marriage?
The condition for her to receive her Cinderella inheritance is... Pregnancy!? Hannah was a lonely seamstress who was separated from her parents at the age of three. Working her day job at a high-end men's clothing store, she also dreamed of one day opening her own store, but one day she was told a shocking truth. She was the granddaughter of a wealthy man, and the sole heir to his fortune. How could I be the only heir? But in order to receive her inheritance, she must become pregnant within six months. Hannah had no boyfriend or boyfriend, so she asked her client Yaeger, who she had been talking to for a long time, to help her. He was an attractive businessman who was also popular with women, and he seemed like a perfect match for a sperm donor, but then he came up with three unexpected conditions...
Whitney runs a specialty teddy bear shop. One day a man visits her shop and Whitney is stunned. It’s Logan, her crush from high school! Using the teddy bear he is searching for as an excuse to meet, Whitney finds her feelings for Logan are rekindled. However, she learns that he may be forced to give up his foster daughter, whom he is in the process of adopting, because he is a single father. Wanting to help Logan, Whitney says something unexpected in front of his social worker without thinking. “We’re getting married!”
Richard! Isabella is shocked to see a familiar face on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Her memory of the passion they shared is the single bright spot in the hellish time she spent in South America. Eight years ago, he seduced her, but it turned out he only wanted to get revenge. Now they’ve reunited just as she’s starting to make a new life for herself as a doctor. Soon he invites her to his extravagant penthouse. Though he’s become incredibly rich, there’s still a lingering shadow in his gray eyes. She’s unable to resist his desperate kisses and passionate embrace, which make his next words all the more shocking. He’s demanding that she leave the country!
Stella Greco’s child, Nicky, is the result of artificial insemination. Stella has no intention of ever bringing the anonymous donor, or any father for that matter, into their lives. Unfortunately, the anonymous donor is Vasco Montoya, King of Montmajor, who is eager to seize this chance to continue his family line without being forced into a marriage. He wants his son in Montmajor, and Stella isn’t willing to give up her child. To compromise, Vasco invites Stella to work restoring ancient texts in the palace library for a month, so she can see what life would be like for her and Nicky. Neither of them ever expected to fall in love, but then, loving a royal isn’t easy.
Sophy had felt protective of her sister and her nephew ever since the family of her sister’s late husband, Theo, had opposed their son’s marriage. That’s why she followed her sister to Greece when she went to visit Theo’s family. When they arrived, Theo’s attractive brother, Andreas, picked them up and brought them back to his breathtaking mansion, but his welcome was less than warm! Still, as Sophy spends time with Andreas under the Greek sun, her heart becomes more conflicted. Now she doesn’t know what to do…
Joe comes to love Catherine during his lessons to become a gentleman. She’s also started to fall for him in spite of the fact that she’s engaged. Suppressing feelings for each other, the two try to manage their lessons. The deadline is nearing… Will Joe be able to act like a gentleman at the party? And what’ll become of their love?
Despite a long history, the organized field of research on voluntaristics in Japan has emerged only in the past two decades. This article presents a comprehensive review of voluntaristics research in Japan through an overview of past studies and recent hot topics. Nonprofit sector and voluntary action research, now termed voluntaristics (Smith, 2016), is reviewed here using four approaches: organizational, economic, employment, and charitable giving. Discussion of recent changes in the political-legal environment for nonprofit agencies and associations as well as of collaboration among nonprofits, governments, and businesses are presented. The article also covers some of the key topics in recent years, including rising social movements and advocacy, social impact bonds, social capital, and information and communication technologies (ICT) and social media. In discussing the emergence, expansion, and diversification of nonprofit research in Japan, the article makes two main arguments. First, we argue that studies of voluntaristics are rather recent in Japan, still in pursuit of their own originality. Second, we argue that nonprofit research in Japan is constantly looking for an ideal relationship with practice. Research appears to have not fully caught up with the changing landscape of nonprofits in action, and research has not been able to guide practice into the best next steps. The article highlights characteristics of nonprofit sector research in Japan as well as suggesting key questions for future research.
Limnology provides an in-depth and current overview of the field of limnology. The result of a major tour de force by two renowned and experienced experts, this unique and richly illustrated reference presents a wealth of data on limnology history, water as a substrate, lakes' origins and aquatic biota. Besides a general part, it gives special focu
Jack’s wife, Cassandra, is standing in front of him, but he just married another woman that very day! Cassandra was declared dead after she went missing while on a research expedition into the remote Amazon three years ago. Heartbroken, Jack quit his job as a professor and started a new job. Today he married his new boss’s daughter. Faced with his first wife, Jack doesn’t know what to expect, but he’s completely blindsided when she introduces herself as his younger sister and ends up staying in the newlyweds’ home. Now there are two wives in the house, and Jack must figure out how to be the right husband!
Thanks to a scheming stepmother, Bianca, the daughter of an Italian earl, is sailing to faraway Spain be the bride of an old man. But her ship is attacked by pirates during the journey and Bianca ends up sold to the harem of young King Selim of the Kingdom of Afril, an infamous tyrant. Where will the blue diamond of love take Bianca in this unfamiliar land…?
A popular actress on a secret vacation meets…her fated love? Angel, a popular actress, is tired of being harassed by paparazzi and stalkers. Desperate for a vacation, she takes up an invitation to visit her friend’s brother’s ranch in New Mexico. There she meets rugged cowboy Day and his daughter, Beth Ann. Angel is concerned for the adorable but somewhat frightened little girl. But when Day, who is in the middle of a custody battle with his ex-wife, finds out that Angel is an actress, he curses her and tries to kick her out!
After being falsely accused of a crime, Sophia’s husband committed suicide, and then she lost her young son to pneumonia… Prior to that she’d lost her job and was now left with no money or home. So she was without prospects or any recourse when she was approached by a navy admiral with a damaged left hand. He introduced himself as Charles and his smile was so unexpectedly charming that Sophia inadvertently revealed her predicament. And so he offered her a job…as his wife!
Jake, a young businessman in New York, is called back to his homeland, Ruthenia, to succeed the throne and is followed by his personal assistant, Andi. Three years after the rebuilding of his country, Jake is pressured by this staff to get married within the month, by Independence Day. But at the daunting party where Jake must choose a future queen from the women of numerous powerful families, Andi gets into an accident and loses her memory! Unlike her usual brilliant but straitlaced self, Andi becomes naively charming. Then one day, the two are caught together by the media and Jake publicly announces that he is “engaged” to Andi.
Erin Tunnicliffe was raised by her overprotective father in the rural town of Babington. In order to help her friend out, she temporarily moves to the bustling city of London. Finally, she thinks to herself, my life can begin! The instant she sees Joshua Salbury, she falls in love with him, and he seems to share her feelings! But fate conspires against her and she must abandon the idea of a relationship with Joshua. Leave it to her reckless mother to ruin everything...
This is the story of a splendid phantom thief that takes place in Paris at the end of the 19th century. The newspaper reporter Michel chases after the upcoming and handsome playwright Gigante, but Michel learns of his true identity through an unexpected incident. At the same time, Gigante learns that Michel is a woman parading as a man. The Thieves Who Fall in Love series has finally been completed!
Journalist Lynn has infiltrated the small desert kingdom of Jantal in search of her missing brother. She is collecting information at the palace when she is caught by the guards. Kasim, the newly enthroned king, is rumored to have killed his older brother to succeed his late father. He makes a proposition to Lynn, suggesting that rather than facing execution, she can become his concubine. A captured journalist in a harem and a lonely king—what will become of their clashing spirits?
Camille Rolan is a beautiful female thief who appeared in Paris at the end of the 19th century and brilliantly stole the fortunes from the rich and handed them out to the poor. She set her eyes on a necklace beloved by her late mother, but the private detective Hathaway not only got in her way but also ended up trapped with her in an underground passageway! The distance between them suddenly disappeared in the darkness! What direction will a romance between rivals take? This is the second volume in the Thieves Who Fall in Love collection featuring romances hidden within jewels!
【A story by New York Times bestselling author becomes a comic!】The Crightons are a well-known, wealthy English family that has turned out generation after generation of lawyers. Jonathan and David are twins, and Jonathan, the quieter of the two brothers, has spent years living in David’s shadow. His wife, Jenny, even dated David first, until David abandoned her when she got pregnant. Jonathan proposed to her instead, as if to make up for David’s wrongdoing. But everything changes when David has a heart attack and collapses at their fiftieth birthday party. It turns out that David has been embezzling funds from a client, and the family is plunged into an unprecedented crisis. Problems that had been slumbering in darkness come to life one after another, and David begins to wonder whose love he can really trust.
Morgan was sick of city life, so she went camping in the desert by herself. There she came across a man who was severely injured. She’s not sure how far she should trust this stranger, but she certainly can’t leave him to die! Despite her concerns, she decides to take care of him. He introduces himself, explaining that his name is Riley and he’s a whale researcher. Traveling through the desert together, they often argue, but as they spend more time together Morgan finds herself becoming attracted to this mysterious and sexy man!
A popular actress on a secret vacation meets…her fated love? Angel, a popular actress, is tired of being harassed by paparazzi and stalkers. Desperate for a vacation, she takes up an invitation to visit her friend’s brother’s ranch in New Mexico. There she meets rugged cowboy Day and his daughter, Beth Ann. Angel is concerned for the adorable but somewhat frightened little girl. But when Day, who is in the middle of a custody battle with his ex-wife, finds out that Angel is an actress, he curses her and tries to kick her out!
I'm seeing a real estate magnate who was supposed to be my enemy in Japan! "You're a scumbag!", said Kelsey to the Falconer, one of the world's leading real estate magnates. Falconer has Kelsey's father invest all of his money, which he says led to the latter's bankruptcy. Kelsey can never forgive him! Unable to stand by the sight of her father in his weakened state, Kelsey stormed into Falconer's Japanese office. But Falconer calmly brushes off Kelsey's accusations. "I'm sorry, I can't remember your name. I don't remember all the women in my past," he says and silences Kelsey with a kiss on her lips!
Whitney runs a specialty teddy bear shop. One day a man visits her shop and Whitney is stunned. It’s Logan, her crush from high school! Using the teddy bear he is searching for as an excuse to meet, Whitney finds her feelings for Logan are rekindled. However, she learns that he may be forced to give up his foster daughter, whom he is in the process of adopting, because he is a single father. Wanting to help Logan, Whitney says something unexpected in front of his social worker without thinking. “We’re getting married!”
Richard! Isabella is shocked to see a familiar face on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Her memory of the passion they shared is the single bright spot in the hellish time she spent in South America. Eight years ago, he seduced her, but it turned out he only wanted to get revenge. Now they’ve reunited just as she’s starting to make a new life for herself as a doctor. Soon he invites her to his extravagant penthouse. Though he’s become incredibly rich, there’s still a lingering shadow in his gray eyes. She’s unable to resist his desperate kisses and passionate embrace, which make his next words all the more shocking. He’s demanding that she leave the country!
In 19th century Paris, the city is ravaged by the sudden appearance of Albert Rolan, a handsome thief who steals from the ultra-wealthy in a spectacular and dramatic fashion and gives the riches to the poor. A young aristocrat's daughter named Rose gets caught up in his affairs and ends up getting kidnapped by the thief after trying to stop him from stealing the Rosario, her family's treasured heirloom. But among other things, has the thief also stolen...her heart? Find out this and more in the exciting first volume of the "Romancing the Thief" series, an epic love story filled with hidden treasures!
Jane has been dreaming of a normal, stable life, one far and away from her swindler of a father. So when she meets the rich and smart entrepreneur, Bart, she is drawn to him instantly. But she has no idea about the secret he is keeping…!
Sophie is an actress whose best friend, Jasper, wants her to pretend to be his girlfriend to hide the fact he’s gay. So, wearing a provocative outfit, she hurriedly hops on the train to get to Jasper’s father’s birthday. The attractive, sophisticated man sitting in front of her on the strain gives her a look of blatant contempt. The two happen to get off at the same station and, it turns out, are heading to the same destination. He’s Jasper’s brother! Believing that Sophie is only with his brother for his money and title, he decides to set a trap to reveal her true motive!
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