He's a European prince with over a thousand-year-oldlineage and he hates her as much as he craves herAlyssaWhen I'm introduced to Prince Carl-Theodor Frederick Maximillian Christoph Albert Maria Johann Anselm 17th Prince of Saxony-Bremer and Lautenburg-Bornheim an-der-Elbe, I'm as breathless as his endless name. Something savage twists inside me. Gorgeous and charming as he might be, I don't trust men like him, men w...

Sixteen-year-old Khira Caroline Oganga is a brilliant, willowy product of two sharply conflicting worlds. Raised in Kenya under the strict, patriarchal laws of her traditional Luo heritage, she is simultaneously polished into a sophisticated young lady by her British boarding school education. Khira dreams of a modern, independent future as a career woman—until the sudden, tragic death of her benefactor shatters her security and threatens to force her into an arranged chil...

When powerful Mafia fathers settle debts, even daughters become currency.But Ambrosia Giannovecci Derossa has never been anyone's pawn.Kidnapped from my Swiss holiday by a lethally gorgeous knight and whisked to London on his private jet, I should be terrified.Instead, I'm fascinated.My captor is a stone-cold Crown assassin with impeccable manners, rigid self-control and one objective: use me as bait to capture my notorious father, the Phantom.There'...

Eating around other people is a struggle for salaryman Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane--two brothers, many years apart in age--who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food! It's not long before Yutaka finds himself falling hard for the meals they share together--and falling in love!

Yutaka and Minoru have gone from friends to lovers and made a loving home for themselves and Tane-kun. As their relationship grows, so do their joys and worries, but one thing stays the same: they always have warm meals to share around the table. See how their little family shares love and delicious food in this collection of short stories!

"Do all wives have this sort of salacious thing done to them?Ayumi, who works in the Accounting department, and Keima, the vice president, are a newlywed couple who got married without ever dating. However, their relationship is basically a secret, and only a few family members know about it. Due to various circumstances, they were together for a trial period of one year. Ayumi, who has been devoted to shogi all her life, is a novice and knows nothing about relationships. Every nig...

As the seasons turn, Minoru and Yutaka get to experience plenty of firsts as a couple! But just as they're talking about moving in together, Minoru is struck with jealousy.What will he do when he meets Kanzaki, a college classmate of Yutaka's who once harbored feelings for him?

Ori the Beet Farmer is about a young boy whose humble nature guides him through sharing the experience of farming with his animal friends who help him maintain an ecological balance on the farm.Magnificent Hummingbirds is a tale of three hummingbirds who delight in the experience of visiting beautiful flowers.Leia the Grass-Covered Mountain is about a mountain who learns a lesson about the importance of being unique.

She's chaos in Chanel trained in diplomacy. He's second-generation billionaire logic in Brioni. Together they're a relationship catastrophe bedded in nightmareLOUISAPeople think being a princess means living in a fairy tale.They've clearly never sat through a brewery board meeting while fighting off hostile investors before lunch.At thirty-three, I'm heir to an eleven-hundred-year-old Bavarian dynasty, running an internation...

As children, Shishimaru and Leo were inseparable. Shi-chan was so infatuated with Leo that he proposed to him! But as the years went by, they grew up and parted ways--until ten years later, when the two reunite. Have their feelings remained or have they been apart for too long?From the creator of Our Dining Table!

"An intimate―and disturbing―account of war at its most brutal, told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom." — Publishers WeeklyVietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her father's funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or cutting short their lives. After a month of fighting, their bea...

Explore the surprising connections between sports, religion, politics, war, and art throughout history.Is the relationship between sports and religion truly expanding, or is it part of a historical ebb and flow? This revised edition offers a detailed account of this multifaceted association, revealing its implications for understanding human nature. From ancient Greece to modern America, discover how sports intertwines with warfare, politics, and art, showcasing th...