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A BED OF SAND

It was a fake wedding devised to make her sister happy. Only Rita should have known about her plan. Even her boss, Sakir, whose name she used for the groom shouldn't have known.... So why is he standing in the aisle, clad in a caftan fit for a king? He then spoke to the pale-faced Rita. "You must come with me to my home country as my bride. For business."

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BY LOVE ALONE

From fictiondb:

Strictly business

When Lauren Martin had set out to get an exclusive interview with Cole Adams, millionaire owner of a recording company, she hadn't anticipated them making headlines--as a couple. But their relationship had ended bitterly six months later, when Lauren realized their lives were taking very different paths.

Since then, she'd resumed her career and reshaped her life. Until her editor assigned her to get the inside scoop on Cole's impending marriage--an assignment that Cole had specifically asked that Lauren cover!

Lauren knew she didn't have a choice about doing the article, but she sure had a choice about the way she'd conduct herself with Cole--she'd be cool and professional. After all, those heady days--and nights--they'd shared were definitely yesterday's news....

They are cool! They are hot! They are irresistible!
No girl will refuse to share her bed with these Sensei.

1 & 2: Baby, Baby ー A Narcissistic Scriptwriter by Takahashi Yuu (高橋ゆう)
While enjoying a meal with her friends at a restaurant, Miyako expresses her dislike for the famous & handsome scriptwriter Yuuji and calls him a narcissist. Yuuji overhears her and gets really pissed off. Later he encounters Miyako as an employee of the publishing company he has recently signed a contract with.....

3: Higurashi Naku Yuugure Ni ー An Intellectual Librarian by Saionji Michiru
Touno Sensei's wife passed away 3 years ago and since then he had locked up his heart. He wanted to lead the rest of his life in the memories of his wife and so he left his teaching job and diligently started to take care of the library his wife left him. Nene who was once Touno-sensei's student is now a regular at his library. Nene has a hidden dark past due to which she has grown averse to love. Can these two scarred souls find solace in each other?

4: Love & Peach ー A Perverted Doctor by Ashika Nozomu
Izumi is suffering from haemorrhoids. She visits the hospital for treatment but slaps the proctologist Dr. Shuu since she mistakes him to be sexually harassing her. Coincidentally, that evening, Shuu and Izumi meet at karaoke on a group date and things start to get interesting...

5. Sweet Teacher ー A Confident Trainee-Teacher by Earithen
Kiori is currently working as a trainee teacher to obtain a teacher's license without which she won't be able to graduate from the Department of Education. But the problem is that she doesn't really aim to be a teacher and so she slacks off in her duties. Her perverted supervisor offers to help her get all the required credits in return for sexual favours. Helpless Kiori yields to his demands. Can the good-hearted Kazama-kun, another trainee teacher, save Kiori from being taken advantage of?

6. Ai Wo Hore! ー A Cute Homeroom Teacher by Koishikawa Funi
After being betrayed by her first love, Futaba believes that she can't fall in love ever again. She feels herself buried under a huge pile of snow because of the unexpressed feelings that have been accumulating in her heart. Can the cute child-like Horishi-sensei, her new homeroom teacher, melt her frozen heart (and body) ?

When Leonie is invited to Rachel Richmond's English country mansion, she's immediately impressed by the famous actress's sophisticated style and impeccable manners. Her first impression of Rachel's handsome son Luke, however, is a different matter entirely! A proud, aloof man, Luke Richmond takes an instant dislike to Leonie, and, used to getting his own way, he repeatedly asks her to leave. But Leonie has been commissioned to write Luke's mother's biography; she's not going anywhere especially now she's realised that Luke's got something to hide!

An old man dies, leaving a large percent of his vast fortune to mysterious girl, Alisa, who has supposedly been abandoned on an island for her entire life. The old man's death becomes Alisa's ticket back into civilization. But as she meets the old man's scheming relatives they begin to wonder if she is much more than a naive country bumpkin. What are her true goals? And who is she really....

1. Sensei, Mou Ichido...
Six years ago, Yuzuki had been secretly going out with her homeroom teacher, Tsuji. But Yuzuki had to move away for higher studies and they eventually broke up. After finishing college, she becomes a homeroom teacher at her alma-mater and meets him again. Will they reunite?

2. Anata no Toko de Nemureru Jikan
This story is about a girl in a secret relationship with her boss who already has had a girlfriend for 10 years. Initially she is contented to be just his 'second' but......

3. Blanket, Ichimai no Yoru
Mari, a 27-year old woman has never been in a love relationship since work is her top priority but everything started to crumble when her younger brother's friend, Ryou comes to live with her to take charge of the household chores.

4. Hokenshitsuno Kagiana
Makino sensei has just broken up with her boyfriend and is suffering from depression. Kuga sensei, her colleague comforts her. So, how will this story progress?

5. Kankei Himesuru!
8 years ago, Yuri had broken up with her boyfriend due to failure of long distance relationship. Yuri had finally forgotten her ex-boyfriend and moved on. Unfortunately, after 8 years she was put to work under a man she does not want to meet the most. What will happen to Yuri then?

A story that wonderfully depicts the emotions of an overweight woman with low self-esteem surrounded within the harsh environment of slim and good-looking women. She then decides to lose weight after getting dumped by her lover. The consequences and side-effects are explored further after the 'achievement'..is it what she really wished for?

Natasha lives to work. Her bitter experiences in the past mean she is disinterested in relationships or marriage, but she agrees to be a bridesmaid at her best friend's wedding. At the engagement party, Natasha meets a man who rudely treats her with suspicion, infuriating her. This arrogant man is Kajim, an Arab sheikh, and best man to the groom. But as their paths continue to cross, and danger lurks in the Arabian desert, Natasha finds her true prince.

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Sara is a photojournalist completing an assignment in the desert nation of Kamtansin. She's arrested on suspicion of being a spy after sneaking a shot of Sheikh Kahrun, a member of the royal family. Sara tries to convince him to let her go, but with glittering dark eyes he says, "In order to make things right, you and I will have to get married as soon as possible..."

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TRADED TO THE SHEIKH

In order to meet up with her sister and her husband, who live in politically unstable Zimbabwe, Emily travels on her own to Zanzibar. Her biggest mistake is to accept the charming words of a French trader who offers her a free ride in a yacht in return for her services as a crew member. This man turns out to be a drug dealer, and after being exposed by the sheikh, the trader offers Emily as a gift! The sheikh thinks she is a prostitute, and her attempts to convince him otherwise fall on deaf ears. And now, she finds herself held captive in the luxurious palace...!

"If you ever set even one foot in my kingdom...I'll take you away and put you in the world's most beautiful cage!" This is a bittersweet memory of Jasmine's ex-lover, Sheikh Tariq. When she visits his desert homeland, he sweeps her away to his rose-colored palace, as promised. She dreams of reconciling her love for him, but will Tariq's heart want her back without knowing why she left him once before?

AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE

Allison lives with her uncle, the CEO of a bank in deep financial trouble. Blue Summer, a wealthy farm owner, offers him financial aid in return for Allison's hand in marriage. Allison doesn't want a marriage without love, but nevertheless she travels to Blue's mansion to save her aunt and uncle's business...

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Aspiring teen dollmaker Kashiwagi Kotoko runs into her favorite doll designer, Fool, only to be cursed with a shinshoku kiss. Now Kashiwagi has to make dolls for her or else Fool will turn her into an old lady!

A DATE WITH A BILLIONAIRE

"You've been chosen to date a billionaire!" Beth is startled to receive such a phone call. It appears her neighbor entered her in a competition without telling her! The prize is a date with Kane, a famous billionaire, but Beth is not interested and rejects this golden opportunity. The news reaches Kane and his heart is ignited-- no woman could ever reject him, could she? His pride hurt, Kane vows to win over Beth's heart!

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Contains 2 stories:
- Yokohama Cinema Scenery
- 24-coloured Message

A cyber-punkish collection of stories revolving around the theme of the "DOLL."

• Keep Those Condoms Away From Our Kids
The tale of boys and girls who have lost their sexual desire.
Mihara Mitsukazu's debut work.

• The Iron Maiden
The tale of the strain a girl experiences from having grown up in a home without love.

• The Sunflower Quality Of An Integrated Circuit
Vanilla is a maidroid in the home of an elderly master and his younger wife. The atmosphere in the house is cold and stiff because the wife is having an affair with a younger man. The lonely master comes to look upon Vanilla as his own dear child. He suggests that when the sunflowers bloom, they go outside together to watch them. "Is that a command, sir?" asks Vanilla. "It is not a command," he replies. "It is a promise." And so forms the piercing and painful integrated circuit--the alternating current of intercourse--between a lonely old man and the emotionless Vanilla.

• The Other Side of the Rose Wire
What was the thing a girl like an angel endlessly carried?

• Fish Out of Water
A mermaid is brought out of her dream.

• Mister Mineral
Inside the body of a cute girl who's just like a doll... are internal organs, and blood, and...

• Alive
The sad tale of a human and a clone who pass right by each other.

PUBLIC WIFE, PRIVATE MISTRESS

"Come with me," her husband demands. Stacia hasn't seen Rico in over a year but he hasn't changed at all. His arrogant attitude, his alluring eyes... The free-spirited art lover Stacia and the workaholic billionaire Rico fell passionately in love, but Rico's sister's cruel lie ruined everything. But when his sister is involved in a serious accident she calls for Stacia. Perhaps she is trying to make up for what she did? Stacia makes her way to Sicily, where memories of love await her.

A collection of short love stories; the title story is about a young man involved with his brother's widow.