At 26 years old, Hayami is four years into her career as a saleswoman. She's an ace when it comes to her work, but at home she becomes a massive slob. It just so happens that Yamamoto-kun, her junior who carries a bit of a torch for her, is a pro at housework! As he starts to look after her, she makes a proposal: "Will you be my wife?" Thus begins their life together as housemates. As Yamamoto-kun puts on the pressure, Hayami is completely oblivious to her feelings. Will they end up nothing more than ships passing in the night...?! Keep an eye out for a new character appearing in this volume!

Hayami is the it-woman at her job—she's cool, confident, and admired by all. But her has-it-all exterior belies a dark secret...her house is a mess, and she's no good at taking care of herself! Enter Yamamoto-kun—her colleague who thinks the world of her, and who refuses to let her slobbish behavior slide. Soon he's over at her house often enough that she asks him to move in with her! Where will this roundabout relationship take them?!

Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori's tale of life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road continues as the young bride, Amir Halgal, struggles to remain with her new groom despite the wishes of her family, who would see her wed another. Will Amir be able to preserve the bonds she has cultivated in her new home?

Drake This marriage was supposed to be another business deal. My latest investment, a means to an end... I need an heir. Which means I want her belly swollen with my child before the year is out. She was supposed to be my perfect little bride. Quiet. Uncomplicated. Unemotional. I didn't foresee the stunning firecracker who tumbled into my life and woke things in me I thought were long dead. I didn't count on her turning my world upside down. And I definitely didn't plan on falling for this beauty. Noriko This marriage was supposed to be my sacrifice. A way to save my father, a means to an end... I need to remain childless. So I can exit the contract at the end of the year. He was supposed to be a boring old man. Distant. Uncomplicated. Passionless. I didn't foresee the rude, arrogant and beautiful brute who made my body react like fire and smoke. I didn't count on there being more underneath his gruff exterior. And I'm definitely not supposed to fall in love with the beast.

Love lost doesn’t mean love lost forever. Can unexpected romance deliver a second chance for two deserving widows? Full of resolve, young widow Willow Peterson decides to pursue her dreams to be an artist as she settles into a new life in the growing mountain town of Cripple Creek. When she lands a job working as a portrait painter with handsome entrepreneur and photographer Trenton Van Der Veer, the road before Willow seems to be taking a better-than-anticipated turn. With questions tugging at several hearts in town, including the Sinclair Sisters’ beloved Miss Hattie, change is traveling down the tracks as several unexpected visitors make their way out West. Will the new arrivals threaten the deep family bonds of the Sinclair sisters and the roots of love that are just taking hold for Willow? Filled with the resonating questions that all women face, this romance awakens hope against grief, love against loss, and dreams against life’s unexpected turns.

London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris.