検索キーワード： "Monica Murphy" 女性文学

Caroline Abbott loves her job - helping engaged couples pick out the perfect save-the-date cards and invitations for their dream wedding. Working at Noteworthy means she has to deal with the occasional bridezilla, but Caroline’s always up for the challenge. Until one particular bridezilla, whose fiancé happens to be the boy Caroline shared her first kiss with, walks into the stationery store. Alexander Wilder is all grown up now, helping run his family’s successful luxury hotel chain, and is somehow even better looking than she remembers.

Working at Bliss, Sarah Harrison deals with all sorts of...interesting clientele. Yet no one sparks her interest more than Jared Gaines, the ultra-rich, ultra-sexy businessman who frequents her shop, buying delicate little “gifts” for the women in his life. But one day, Jared sends Sarah a gift from Bliss. Then another - and another. So when Sarah walks into his office demanding to know why, he makes her an offer she somehow can’t refuse: be his fake girlfriend for the weekend while attending his brother’s engagement party.

I'm in trouble. Again. And instead of facing my problems head-on, I've run away. Far away this time, and no one can catch me - not my two younger sisters, Violet and Rose; not my father, my grandmother, or that witch, Pilar, who wants to take control of my family's cosmetics company. Now I'm in Hawaii, enjoying the sun and sand and water, where nobody knows the hot mess known as Lily Fowler. And I'm loving every minute of it. But someone is watching me. Following me. He's gorgeous.

People say the youngest child has it easy, but nothing can be further from the truth. Unlike my two sisters, Violet and Lily, I'm never in the limelight. I just work my butt off for Fleur Cosmetics and get little to no thanks for it. I've been pushed too far one too many times, and I'm finally brave enough to do something about it. Maybe my newfound courage has something to do with the amazing pink and white diamond necklace I wear to the party in Cannes.

I've moved through life doing what's expected of me. I'm the middle daughter, the dutiful daughter. The one who braved a vicious attack and survived. The one who devoted herself to her family's business empire. The one who met an ambitious man and fell in love. We were going to run Fleur Cosmetics together, Zachary and I. When Zachary got a promotion, however, he left me in the dust. Maybe it's for the best, between his disloyalty and his wandering eye. But another man was waiting for me. Wanting me.

Candice Gaines loves Christmas. Not only does she bask in the twinkling lights, sing Christmas carols, and go crazy with the decorations, she’s also in the giving spirit - donating much of her time and wealth to various charities in the local area. Charlie Sullivan despises Christmas. Though it keeps his family afloat, considering they own Sullivan Family Christmas Tree Farm, the main provider for Christmas trees on the Monterey Peninsula. He’d much rather work among the trees than deal with people.

Einige Menschen im Leben vergisst man nie - für Hotelmanager Alex war es das Mädchen, das er zum ersten Mal geküsst hatte und danach nie wieder sah. Bis zu dem Tag, als er mit seiner Verlobten in eine Papeterie geht, um Hochzeitskarten auszusuchen. Die Verkäuferin ist niemand anderes als Caroline, eben jenes Mädchen. Von da an hilft sie ihm nicht nur bei der Auswahl der Karten, und verhindert kleinere und größere Fehler, sondern ist auch für ihn da als sich sein Leben auf den Kopf stellt. Alex weiß gar nicht, womit er sie verdient hat, aber ist sich sicher: Ohne sie wäre er verloren.

Sarah ist an "besondere" Kundschaft in ihrem Dessous-Laden gewöhnt. Doch niemand weckt ihr Interesse mehr als Jared Gaines, der reiche, gutaussehende Geschäftsmann, der bei ihr Geschenke für seine wechselnden Freundinnen kauft. Als Jared dann jedoch unvermittelt beginnt, ihr Präsente zu schicken, stellt Sarah ihn zur Rede. Zögernd rückt Jared mit der Wahrheit heraus: Für die Verlobungsfeier seines Bruders braucht er dringend eine Freundin.