by Melanie George (2002)
When wealthy British sex scientist Dexter Harrington offers New York novelist Mallory Ginelli a handsome wage to travel to England and assist him with a project on human sexuality, Mallory accepts. She needs the money to pay off her sister's latest round of gambling debts, but what she doesn't dare tell Dexter is that she has no firsthand experience with men. All of the sexy love scenes in her books come from her imagination. Unfortunately, Dexter, who is due to marry his fiancée, hasn't a clue how to please a woman, and he's counting on Mallory to instruct him.
Nora Roberts
Unfinished business: Vanessa Sexton returns to her home town to sort out her life, only to be confused by the presence of her first love Brady Tucker. Local hero: Single mother Hester Wallace reluctantly begins to care about comic book creator Mitch Dempsey.
Nora Roberts
Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts's celebrated Bride Quartet series.As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, and Parker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do" moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they start their own wedding planning company to make every woman's dream day come true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyful moments captured on film, Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet shares each woman's emotionally magical journey to romance. In Bed of Roses, florist Emma Grant is finding career success with her friends at Vows wedding planning company, and her love life appears to be thriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn't found Mr. Right. And the last place she's looking is right under her nose. But that's just where Jack Cooke is. He's so close to the Women of Vows that he's practically family, but the architect has begun to admit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed into much more than friendship. When Emma returns his passion—kiss for blistering kiss—they must trust in their history...and in their hearts.
Vanessa James
This was going to be even worse than she'd feared Journalist Sara Ford had good reason to be apprehensive when wealthy playboy Max Christian took over as editor of London Now magazine. He'd neither forgotten nor forgiven the scathing article she'd written about him two years earlier. And it was obvious from Sara's first day under his regime that Max was going to enjoy making her life miserable. She could withstand his brutal criticisms of her work. It was when he began to toy with her long-repressed emotions that she knew herself defenseless.... Sara falling in love with Max - only to be faced with Delia Waterlow, who told her, 'I always get what I want, and I want Max very badly indeed...'
Debbie Macomber
RIGHT PLACE, WRONG BROTHER At fourteen, Jessica Kellerman was madly in love with Evan Dryden, one of the boys next door, much to the amusement of both their families. Now, ten years later, she's about to start working for the Dryden brothers, Evan and Damian. But no one will let her forget her girlish crush, and Jessica finds it frustrating in the extreme. Because she's in love with a Dryden, all right—Damian, not Evan. And this time she knows it's not puppy love, it's the real thing. How is she supposed to convince Damian of her true feelings when he's still trying to push her toward his brother?