Irene, Sherlock, and Lupin investigate the murder of a wealthy merchant in London.

Planning one wedding shouldn’t have landed me an unlimited supply of food from my home country. Running two businesses doesn’t leave much room for dating. Good thing, too. Men treat me like an exotic toy. I guess they’ve never met a Korean girl who speaks with a Russian accent. Few dig deep enough to realize I’m from Uzbekistan, not that it helps in the exotic department. When Damian Hughes, the owner of the hotel where I’m organizing a wedding, asks me out, I ignore my attraction to him and say no. Apparently, no means he should hire me to organize a Christmas party at his hotel. The party he wants to micromanage, although I suspect he goes tablecloths shopping with me just to annoy me. I don’t want to like him. I really don’t. Why does he have to be so sweet? Obsessive, but so, so sweet, and that’s before he discovers my weakness for food. There are dishes I haven’t had since I left Uzbekistan. Damian finds them for me and bribes me into giving him a chance. So, fine. I’ll go out with him, but I’m doing it for the melons. I can’t fall for him. Because sooner or later he would say something to tear my already battered heart to pieces. If you like Shain Rose, Claire Contreras, Daisy Allen, and Heather M. Orgeron, then Scarlet Roses is for you. Scarlet Roses is an interracial multicultural contemporary billionaire romance novel with an alpha CEO hero. He falls first and keeps is as a secret desire. It’s a steamy holiday Christmas book with independent Asian heroine white man, sensual love.

What if two former college lovers, Cass Westfield and Mike Aviara, rekindle their relationship at a college class reunion? While she thinks it is understood to be a simple one-time fling, he refuses to allow it to end, resulting in emotional blackmail, stalking, and continued obsession on his part. Cass must distance herself from Mike to remain loyal to her family. However, when Mike finds out that her daughter, Scarlet Rose, was conceived by he and Cass during their senior year of college, he threatens to expose Cass' long held secret unless she leave her husband and take Scarlet Rose to live with him.

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only seventeen, they live apart for the first year. At first the secret works, but then the mysterious Mannion, whose emotions cannot be read in his face, returns from abroad…. Wilkie Collins (1824–1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, and The Moonstone.