HARLEQUIN

After her father, a bank branch manager, is caught embezzling money, Grace decides to try to persuade the head of the bank, Duke Herrera, to drop the court case. However, upon arrival at Lion's Castle where the duke lives, his servant coldly turns her away. Desperate to speak to the duke, Grace sneaks into the garden, only to be attacked by a guard dog unleashed by a mysterious man! The man is, in fact, the duke. Seeing Grace pleading for mercy, the duke decides to offer her an unthinkable deal....

n order to stop her family from worrying about her life choices, Julie decided to lie to them about having a fiance, and she's kept up the lie for the past two years! She was able to get away with it until now by saying her fiance, an international financier millionaire, was always away on business, but now that her sister was about to get married, she couldn't get out of bringing her fiance to the wedding. Her only option was to ask a regular at her bakery, a poor, amateur actor, to play the part-he even had the same name as her imaginary fiance! Julie assumes her plan will run smoothly. How could she know Robert's passionate acting would draw her to him so strongly?

In order to pay back her late father's debts, Alesha must marry the famous shipping magnate Loukas. Living up to his regal name, he sports an exquisite physique and jet-black eyes, and gazes hungrily at his newly purchased bride like he's stripping off her clothes, layer by layer. His indecent stare rekindles in Alesha's mind a past she'd much rather forget: memories of lovemaking that felt like rape, and being abused like some plaything. She will never be able to tell Loukas that the bride he's bought won't be able to give him the passion he wants in bed

While traveling through the desert country of Jabal, Olivia is arrested and falsely accused of something she hasn't done. Worried that she will end her life behind bars in a foreign country, Olivia was losing all hope. But then a stranger comes to her rescue and, without explaining much, frees her from prison. The man turns out to be Sheik Khalid Fehr, the prince of a neighboring country. In order to evade persecution, Khalid lies and claims that Olivia is his betrothed. Things start to get complicated when the Jabal government makes their engagement public.

She was his pregnant mistress...Two years ago, Freya Addison fell for sexy billionaire Zac Deverell. He gave her everything money could buy, and more pleasure in the bedroom than she'd thought possible. But when Freya announced she was pregnant, Zac threw her out.Now she'll become his wife!When they meet again, the passion between them is as strong as ever. Zac whisks Freya away to Monaco and back to his bed, where he'll get his answers! If the baby is his, he'll make Freya his wife....

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

Due to her sister's infertility, Sheridan decides to undergo artificial insemination, but as a result of the hospital's mistake, she is provided with the semen of a man who is not her brother-in-law. As it turns out, the semen belongs to Rashid, the King of Kyr. Though Sheridan finds him authoritarian, he is as handsome as any prince you might read about in The Arabian Nights. Sheridan frantically resists Rashid's urgings that she should join him in Kyr, but then he makes an unimaginable move, sweeping Sheridan up off her feet and kissing her passionately. Sheridan suddenly finds herself lost in Kyr's intense passion... What will she do next?

One summer, young Charlotte met Riccardo and fell in love. Then she discovered that he, the son of a noble family in Italy, was merely enjoying summer love, and her days of devoting her heart and body ended in tragedy. Some years later, Riccardo's mean looks still haunt and pain her. Now a real-estate agent, Charlotte is shocked when she finds her next client is none other than the unforgettable Riccardo!

Jennifer has always had feelings for her boss, Alex, but he won't look her way. She decides to find a new love, so she participates in an auction...where she ends up winning a date with Alex of all people! What is he doing in a place like this? Jennifer wants to refuse the date, but Alex has no problem going out with her. And the moment he captures her lips in a kiss, she can't say anything to resist!

Having lost both her parents in a car accident, Angie works hard to support her younger brother. One day, she's picked up by a modeling agency which shoots her to supermodel status overnight. Then she falls for and marries the wealthy Roque. But when the gossip magazines spread stories about his wild bachelor ways, Angie can't take any more of it and leaves. A year later, her younger brother accrues a devastating debt on one of Roque's credit cards. Angie promises Roque that she will pay him back. But he steals a kiss from her and says, "If you don't want your brother to get arrested, come back to me.

Anna's big break has come in the form of an interview at a prestigious primary school...or so she thinks, until one man on the interviewing committee dashes her hopes. Cesare Urquart, a shockingly handsome businessman who lives an ostentatious life in a castle in Killaran, makes no effort to conceal his disgust for her, and he has her application rejected in no time flat. Dumbfounded as to why a man she has never met before would be so hostile toward her, Anna has no way of knowing that Cesare thinks she is the woman who nearly ruined his best friend's marriage only a few years ago!

Emily knows who the baby's father is. How could she forget the night of passion she experienced only one month ago Loukas was a billionaire she met and immediately fell for at a friend's wedding. But she knows her love was one-sided. After all, he didn't even give her his number. Then her phone rings. Loukas wants to have dinner with her. She agrees but decides to hide the pregnancy from him. However, he comes earlier than planned and sees the positive test kit.

[Sarah's Child 1] His heart still belongs to his late wife, Diane, but Sarah’s heart will always be his. Sarah has been in love with Rome for a very long time, but her best friend, Diane, married him. Sarah would never break up their marriage, so she’s always kept her feelings to herself. Even after Rome lost Diane and their young children in an accident two years ago, all Sarah could do was watch over him as he ached. She knows Rome’s love still belongs to his late wife, but she can’t stop herself from loving him even if she never confesses to it. However, one day when Sarah gently holds him as he’s overwhelmed in sorrow, something subtle changes…and they wind up kissing! [Sarah's Child 2] She’s married her true love, but their love feels incomplete. Sarah accepts a proposal from Rome, the man she’s loved for many years, even though the proposal comes with a difficult condition—they will not have children. Though she knows Rome still suffers from having lost his first wife and children in an accident, their incomplete romance hurts Sarah. She wants to build a home with her beloved Rome. Will the wish she made on a shooting star ever be granted?

Craving the forbidden: What kind of a trap has this man set for Sophie? 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! In Bed with a Stranger: They share intoxicating kisses…but does Sophie really know what’s on Kit’s mind? After unraveling a layer of misunderstandings, Sophie and Kit are now together. But when Kit comes back home from a long deployment, Sophie notices something off about him, even though their lovemaking is as passionate as ever. Still, she’s elated when he asks her to marry him and visit his mother with him. What Sophie still doesn’t know is that Kit has been hiding something big from her…

Jennie has a goal, and it’s a simple one: enjoy all that life has to offer, no matter how dangerous it might be. Roller-coaster rides, drinking too much and even losing her virginity one night at a bar are all checkpoints on her way to her goal. The night she attempts to lose her virginity, she finds the love of her life, Travis Wilde. At least, she thinks she does, but then he chastises her for her dangerous ways and sends her packing. Fate reunites Travis and Jennie, but tragedy might steal them away from one another yet again. When they get to talking, Jennie has an intense migraine. She has them frequently, to the point where she keeps medicine on her at all times. The migraines are just a symptom of the reason Jennie’s living life on the edge. Jennie doesn’t have much time left, but Travis just can’t accept that.

After Matilda lost her parents, she was taken in by her uncle, a doctor, and grew up to work as a nurse at his clinic. However, her peaceful life is changed forever when her uncle suddenly passes away. First her cousin inherits everything and drives her out of the house, then her fiance suddenly breaks off their engagement. She tries to make ends meet on her own but is soon in trouble. She's offered a surprising helping hand by a friend of her uncle's, a Dutch doctor named Rauwerd. Matilda is shocked when he suddenly proposes to her. After all, they're practically strangers

Every night Sarah sings at a nightclub under the stage name Sabine. But Sarah dreams of being an opera singer. Though she isn't enamored with the scandalous outfits she has to wear or dealing with the club's wealthy clientele, Sarah sings as Sabine in exchange for operatic rehearsal time at the venue. Despite her general disinterest in the club's clients, she is taken with Bastiaan, a Greek businessman who shows up backstage at her performance one day. She knows he can only be interested in the persona of Sabine and not the real Sarah, but her heart beats faster all the same.

Elena planned to remain single, but she always wanted a child. That's why she accepted when her friend Sam offered to father a child with her. Nothing happened after a few weeks, so she assumed she hadn't conceived and thought nothing more of it. A whirlwind romance with Sam's brother, Jed, followed and the two were soon married! Elena was finally happier than she ever thought possible, but then she began feeling nauseous and realized she was six weeks' pregnant!

Georgia has always been cautious and pragmatic, but after her husband leaves her, she decides to change. She flies to Ireland to be there for her sister, Laura, when she gives birth, but once Laura's in the hospital, Georgia finds herself alone with Sean, the brother of Laura's husband. He's the CEO of an airline company and intimidatingly handsome...which is why Georgia has always tried to keep a little distance between them in the past. But now she finds herself gazing passionately into his eyes and she makes up her mind to live in the moment. What starts with a sweet kiss ends in a passionate night together. Georgia is determined to keep things strictly physical, but then he asks her to pretend to be his fiancee!

Sirena was the secretary for talented entrepreneur Raoul, and three months ago, she finally thought her dream had come true when they became lovers. But the next day Raoul called the police on her! He thought she’d stolen money from his bank account. He used to be kind, but when he sues her, his hatred is plain to see. Unable to handle his contempt, Sirena faints the moment the trial is over. When he holds her in his arms, she silently pleads from within her hazy consciousness, fearing he’ll find out that she’s pregnant!

I’m an actress. I can play the part of a loving wife perfectly. Merida works at a gallery by day as she awaits her big break on Broadway. She is called in one day to show their newest exhibit to Ethan Devereux, youngest son of New York real estate royalty. Seeing his raven hair and piercing eyes, Merida struggles to keep her well-trained composure… When a night of passion with Ethan results in pregnancy, Merida finds herself married to this cold and stoic man, faced with the biggest role in her career yet—the part of a loving wife. With the entire world as her stage, can she succeed in keeping her act and her heart apart?

Jacqui, a magazine writer, met Asim, a sultan, in his country when she visited Jazeer. They met in the harem, which had gone unused for a long time. The extremely confident Asim looked at Jacqui with great interest-their personalities were complete opposites and he was fascinated by her. It didn't take long for Jacqui to be entirely captivated by Asim's charm, either. She was filled with happiness when Asim made love to her...until she learned that the king had been meeting with a number of potential princesses.

Emiliano, her boss, was the most important person in Sienna's life. She'd never felt more loved and dreamed of the day he would propose. Then she learned that he was engaged to a woman from a wealthy family, and her dreams crumbled. Even though he was the one who dumped her, he tried to kiss her one last time, but she pushed him away and ran. She has no memory of what came after. When she comes to later, all she remembers is Emiliano's love for her. Then she learns she's pregnant with his baby...

Gwen Sawyer, a popular decorum instructor among upper-class girls, is hired to be a live-in tutor to the daughter of the distinguished Harrison family. The family is headed by Will Harrison, who is the CEO of HarCorp...and Dallas's most eligible bachelor. However, on their first meeting, Gwen finds him to be an arrogant man who thinks money can solve everything and who only sees women as things. Gwen is determined to teach him some manners, too, but she has no idea what a dangerous man she is trying to deal with!

No matter how much love I give, he still won’t let me in… Their backgrounds couldn’t be more different, but Clio has been smitten with Josh ever since he saved her little sister from drowning decades ago. And though Josh had always been written off as a bad seed, he’s now a successful businessman and popular playboy. There’s a darkness he can’t shake that keeps him from opening up to her, but Clio refuses to give up on him. Will her love be able to reach him?

Ever since one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs stole her company, Marina's life has been nothing but chaos. After her parents passed away, Marina had no choice but to settle the problem on her own. She crashes a party to try to negotiate with the billionaire, but she offends the prideful man and finds herself surrounded by Wakefield's bodyguards. Suddenly a mysterious man named Ronan Carlisle comes to her aid and offers to help get her company back...under one condition. Marina must pretend to be his mistress!

Deborah works small jobs on the side while traveling the world. One day on her travels, she loses her bag and in a panic runs in front of a car. Out of the car comes an Englishman named Gil Hamilton. A skilled businessman, he's shocked by Deborah's distressing and reckless story, but after hearing her name, he unexpectedly offers her a job. It turns out that she has the same name as his fiancee, and he wants her to pretend she is his wife! Will Deborah accept his strange proposition?

Alex promised a tycoon he would investigate whether his long-lost granddaughter, Rosie, is a worthy heir. When he met Rosie while undercover, he felt a tremulous excitement that he had never experienced before. While Alex tried to get closer to Rosie and take care of her, Rosie fell in love with him. Their relationship seemed to be going well, but then Rosie realized Alex's true motives. Shocked and devastated, she has to ask herself if her first love is over.

Luca and Poppy swore they'd be together forever, until one day when Luca suddenly broke off their relationship, telling Poppy to forget him and find happiness. His family needed him to marry a woman of similarly high standing and he couldn't let them down. Fast forward seven years and Poppy's been trapped in a storm while checking on her grandmother's castle in Scotland. Shivering with fear, she hears the door burst open and the great silhouette of a man appears-revealing none other than Luca, the man she could never forget. Now the two must spend a candlelit night in the great, cold castle until the storm passes!

The man who gave me an angel was a cruel billionaire… Elin, the adopted child of a prestigious family, keeps up the facade of a party girl for the tabloids in order to protect her brother. Exhausted by the emptiness of her reality, she gives her virginity to Cortez, an attractive stranger whom she has just met. One year later, after giving birth to a baby, Elin is shocked by her adopted father’s deathbed revelation. She must marry within one year or else her inheritance rights will be transferred to another heir—and this newly appeared heir is Cortez!

I only intended to borrow a name-who would've thought this would end up in the papers! In order to adopt her deceased friend's baby, Paige lies at the government office that she's engaged to Dante, the young hotshot manager of the major department store where she works. But somehow, the news reaches the press! While she prepares herself for termination, she desperately tries to explain herself to Dante when he confronts her with the headlines. However, Dante's handsome face expresses contempt at her despair and he mercilessly fires her. But then, with a speculative look, he turns to a distraught Paige and offers her a proposal. "I will make you my wife."

That kiss was nothing more than him teasing me… Reserved Bess has lived a perfect, boring life in the shadow of her showy model sister, Helen. Even Tom, Bess’s fiancé, insists that she should just rely on him instead of doing things on her own. At Tom and Bess’s engagement party, Helen brings home her new lover, Luke. He’s an Italian investor whose burning gaze follows Bess wherever she goes. He undoes her hair, skillfully takes the lead while they dance and whispers sweetly in her ear. Will she follow his tempting advice to live her own life?

Kate is an international model, and she’s agreed to auction off a kiss for charity. The price keeps going up, and the final bid is…eighty thousand dollars! The bidder is venture capital giant Tiarnan Quinn, an old friend of Kate’s and her first love. Ten years ago, she told him how she felt about him, and his rejection was cold and humiliating. He’s just as intense and haughty as ever, but overflowing with the kind of charm that instantly captivates women. He invites Kate to go to an island in the Caribbean with him… What is he doing? Kate knows it’s risky to go along with his ploy, but she wants to get some closure for her youthful heartbreak, so she decides to go along with it.

He bought me…and now I’m falling for him… Pixie met the rich Apollo while attending her friend’s wedding. Her first impression of him was terrible, so why did she end up dreaming about him? She has other things to worry about, like her younger brother’s insurmountable debts. But who should appear and offer to pay them off? Apollo! But he has a condition—she must agree to become his bride!

I want to pick up where we left off four years ago…even if it’s only for one night After her father remarried, Jodie moves in with the powerful Antoniou family in Greece. Stergios, her stepbrother, who is eight years older than her, welcomes her warmly, but her father and stepmother do not show any interest in her. To Jodie, who has longed for her parents’ affection her whole life, the Antoniou house soon begins to feel like a prison. One day, she causes a scandal and is kicked out of the house and sent to live in the United States with her mother. Four years later, she comes back to Greece with one goal in mind: reconciling with her father. But Stergios doesn’t believe her. He thinks she’s come back to ruin her cousin’s wedding, so to avoid a wedding-day debacle, he takes her to his private island as his prisoner…

When Isabella was younger, she followed Paulo around as if he were her brother. He's ten years older and has always been a prince in Isabella's eyes, but he works for a large bank in London now and only returns to Brazil once a year. One day, Isabella overheard him talking about his plans for marriage. She was so upset that she ran off and had a one-night stand with her professor, and now...she's pregnant! But how can she tell Paulo that? She runs into him while she's studying abroad in London, and he invites her to come and live with him until the baby is born. Isabella is carrying another man's child, but she can't stop her feelings for Paulo! What is she to do?

Nick Ramirez built his massive wealth in a single generation and is dead set against marriage. He is an arrogant but handsome man who insists marriage is an act of folly that reduces one's assets. Tess was determined to keep her relationship with Nick strictly professional, but she couldn't resist the temptation and took just one bite of the forbidden fruit. Nick regretted the impulsive love affair and never made another personal approach...Now, months later, Nick has appeared again-has he found out about the secret Tess has been keeping from him?

Abby is dreaming of marrying a cowboy to maintain her ranch when she impulsively shares a passionate night with Leo. He's the CEO of Golden Spurs whom she happened to meet at a bar. The next morning, she feels embarrassed and leaves. But it's not long before she finds out that she's pregnant with his child. Leo is far from her ideal man, but Abby agrees to marry him for the sake of their unborn baby. Little does she know there's another reason he wants to marry her.

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An accident had put an end to Andy's ballet career, but she was still celebrating her twenty-third birthday with her sister and brother-in-law. And that's when famous billionaire Darius Sterne, a man followed by dark rumors, approached them and asked her out. Andy has devoted her life to ballet and has never been in a relationship. After her accident left scars on her body, she can't imagine being intimate with anyone. Knowing that Darius lives in a totally different world from her own, she decides to let him take her out just once. But when Darius kisses her, she wishes it could never end

Oh, no! Laura finds herself in a fender bender with a luxury car owned by a handsome but rude young man. He is in fact so rude that she loses her temper and starts to argue with him. Laura's on her way to work to meet the scary new boss who's taking over her company, so she's already under a lot of stress. Then she finds out just who her new boss really is

Career-oriented Mallory is the executive of a cosmetic company. She goes to Lisbon on vacation and, the day she arrives, saves the life of a little girl. The girl's father, Rafael, is the representative of a distinguished family, the D'Afonsos. He is arrogant and coercive and...unbelievably handsome. He is also looking for somebody to take care of his daughter. But when Mallory accepts the job, she finds out that he also expects her to marry him!

Celibate Sara is enjoying her yacht vacation—at least until she runs into the last man on Earth she wanted to see! Guido is a businessman with a godlike body, and also happened to be Sara’s husband, if briefly. Ten years ago, their young marriage fell apart because of his family’s cruel treatment of her. Now that they’ve met again, Guido pressures her to be his mistress! While Sara is unhappy with the proposal, she resolves to let him have her body in order to protect her friends, who could end up in deep debt at Guido’s whim. Oh, but she’ll play the part of an experienced woman to the bitter end…

"If the king marries for love, the royal family will perish. If the king falls in love with a witch, the country will cease to exist." This prophecy has been passed down in the kingdom of Beilstein, but King Rashid has fallen in love with Alice, an English aristocrat. However, as soon as they are set to be married, a series of misfortunes befalls them.

On the day of her wedding, Shaan is told by her groom-to-be, Piers, that he loves another woman before he abandons her at the altar. Piers's brother Rafe suddenly appears and takes Shaan as his own wife. Shaan can hardly believe that the handsome billionaire would marry her, the ex-fiancee of his younger brother. But Rafe is determined to cover up Piers's mistake and save his family's honor, even if that means entering into a loveless marriage. For her part, Shaan doesn't want to be known as the throwaway bride, so she agrees to go along with Rafe's plan.

During a party for work, Francesca steps out onto the balcony for some air. There, a gorgeous, statuesque man stands alone in the moonlight. Extending his sturdy hand, he introduces himself as Severo, and her heart leaps as she goes to shake it. But as soon as they touch, a blazing shock courses through her body, forcing her to release his hand. What was that? Under Severo's unwavering gaze, her body is feverish. And then Severo suggests they spend the night extinguishing the desire burning between them!

Bella Lawrence can't hide her disappointment after she loses the auction for a painting that she wanted to get for her grandmother's birthday present. Instead the work went to a man with a hard face and a confident smile. So she is pleased when the same man, Olivier, shows up at her grandmother's birthday party. When he asks Bella to go on a date, she is enthralled by his magical words. How could she possibly know that this is all part of Olivier's plan for revenge on the Lawrence family

Colonel Willem Stone is taken behind enemy lines and there endures savage torture to protect his friends. Yet something mysterious happens to him whenever he's at the limit of his pain tolerance... It's as if his soul leaves his body and visits a mysterious woman in an ancient land. Her name is Sarafina. She has strong spiritual powers and is able to sense Will's presence?the two of them form a strong bond. But then Sarafina is transformed into a powerful vampire who never ages... Stay tuned as a unique and mythical romance blossoms!