The ultra–rich Kolovsky family. The glamorous fashion industry: red carpet events, ballrooms and opulent hotel bedrooms... Heiress and the Rebel? Spirited young heiress Annika Kolovsky has gone from opulent ballrooms to the children's ward – what is this pampered princess playing at? Is she too interested in sexy Spaniard Ross Wyatt? Rich, Russian and Reckless! Infamous playboy Aleksi Kolovsky has stunned the world by getting engaged! But the ring on his PA's finger is just until the House of Kolovsky deeds are his. Aleksi told Kate to think of it as a promotion – to lover! Dark Vengeance... Zakahr Belenki has clawed his way out of the gutters to seek revenge on the family that abandoned him. All that stands in his way is his secretary, Lavinia. Her refreshing honesty and passion make Zakahr's conscience waver.

Popular romantic author Carol Marinelli presents three linked stories.

Dr. Iosef Kolovsky is part of Melbourne's wealthiest and most notorious family. By day he works as one of Australia's top doctors, by night he attends glamorous parties with the world's elite.

Annika was born into the famous Kolovsky family, but she goes against her proud mother to become a nurse. Unable to receive financial assistance from home, she works night and day to pay her bills. One day, she’s surprised when her coworker Ross calls out to her. He’s her older brother’s friend, but they’ve never really talked before. Ross says he is worried about how tired she’s looked lately. The more she gets to know him, the more she falls for him. However, that just reminds Annika that, to Ross, she’s nothing but his friend’s little sister…

Infamous playboy Aleksi Kolovsky has stunned the world by getting engaged! But the ring on his fiancée's finger doesn't mean forever…just until the House of Kolovsky deeds are signed over to him. Aleksi told his personal assistant, Kate, to think of their mock engagement as a promotion, but there are certain fringe benefits she hadn't considered…like discovering if Aleksi's reputation as a phenomenal lover really does precede him! Overtime suddenly has a whole new meaning!

After her mother’s suicide, Jay takes the opportunity to leave America and visit Damhoor, the homeland of her late father, as a volunteer emergency doctor. It is there that she meets Malek, a skilled surgeon. Struggling together to save lives in the field, a strong attraction gradually forms between the two of them. However, their feelings for one another are by no means sweet or gentle. As Sheikh, Malek is obligated to inherit Damhoor’s throne. And so, knowing Malek’s anguish, Jay makes a certain decision… This is a grand scale medical romance!

Since the 1970s, romance novels have surpassed all other genres in terms of popularity in the United States, accounting for half of all mass market paperbacks sold and driving the digital publishing revolution. Romance Fiction and American Culture brings together scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and publishing to explore American romance fiction from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Essays on interracial, inspirational, and LGBTQ romance attend to the diversity of the genre, while new areas of inquiry are suggested in contextual and interdisciplinary examinations of romance authorship, readership, and publishing history, of pleasure and respectability in African American romance fiction, and of the dynamic tension between the genre and second wave feminism. As it situates romance fiction among other instances of American love culture, from Civil War diaries to Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Romance Fiction and American Culture confirms the complexity and enduring importance of this most contested of genres.