“I want to love each other more and more as the boundaries of my body disappear.” Yaeko, who married in a good family and Zaizen family in a matchmaking marriage, thought that she had a happy marriage with the envy of others. However, after her husband's extraordinary work on the first night, she spent her days with a strong fear of him. The only thing Yaeko can spend her time calmly is during a small conversation with the book student, Subaru, who is staying at the Zaizen family. Such Subaru also had a faint love for Yaeko, but with “a certain event” as a trigger, her continuous thoughts turned into a fierce mad love. What is the end of the forbidden escape that mixes "pure love" and "lust"? *
Should you sell dreams? Buy dreams? Or...? Oiran (courtesan), the business of selling dreams. Though he reigns at the top of his courtesan profession, Tankou leads a boring life. While gazing at the fleeting yet beautiful...and hateful cherry blossoms blooming before his eyes, a mysterious person named "Yoru" appears. Who on earth is she?
She should have died at her sister’s hands, yet kept returning to the past when she did— Miaoling thought she had finally escaped her sister’s reach, but did not expect others waiting in the wings for their chance to kill her. With every rebirth, her treasured jade necklace grows fainter. How will her fate change, and what direction will it bring her in?
The love between the stiff captain of the Kingsguard and Her Majesty the Queen has many hurdles...?She never thought she would be a queen! Born and raised in the United States, Kelly is suddenly asked by her grandmother's home kingdom to ascend the throne as queen in three weeks. During her studies and lessons in politics to become queen, Devon, the captain of the Kingsguard, was always by Kelly's side as a guard. Tall and handsome, Devon looks like something out of a fairy tale, and the shy Kelly, who is not immune to romance, falls in love with him surprisingly easily. Then, Devon decides to teach Kelly how to dance...?
A young woman sick with an incurable illness closes her eyes for the last time, only to wake up as Ariel Winston, an antagonist of the novel she had loved reading before her death. Knowing that death lies before her if she continues down the path the real Ariel has been going towards, she quickly breaks up with Duke Cedric Evans, who is not only the protagonist of the novel, but a man who is cursed with a condition which causes him to become bloodthirsty when he does not smell a specific scent constantly. However, Cedric, who had been forced to date Ariel due to her status as his personal perfumer, suddenly seems reluctant to distance himself from her. Just what is wrong with this man, and how will this change the events of the novel? Will Ariel be able to live the life she wants?
Omega dominant 'Rael', who lives in the dark, plans to take the opportunity to take over the Count's house when his brother has an accident. Rael secretly visited a perfume maker named 'Hyde' to obtain alpha pheromone perfume to mask his true scent. Rael pretended to be an Alpha in public, and all this thanks to Hyde's special perfume. But, Rael didn't know the true identity of 'Hyde', a perfumer hidden behind a veil, even rumored to be scary. But every time he came into close contact with him, Rael felt something different... Then one day, the Count declared that if Rael could not give birth to Alpha within two years, the Count would hand over the position to someone else. So, Rael turned to Hyde for help, the only person who knew his identity.
"Stop your evil deeds and take the right path!" That is the creed of Youko Tama and her younger step brother, Jinka Sendou. The two demon siblings travel the country to stop the deeds of all evil doers, along with a scaredy cat swordsman they picked up along the way, Hyoudou Shinsuke. Their travels lie with many twists and turns, as well as wacky characters they'll meet along the way.
In 2006 the Japanese publisher found extra material for a new volume starring the same character, but in a different historical context.
[Asha], the king of demons captured by humans. Asha, imprisoned in a prison tower, creates divisions between Crown Prince Jeongjin and General Muryang, and attempts to destroy them. A political battle, action, and unpredictable oriental fantasy unfolding against the backdrop of the imperial palace.
Olive, a young girl who is not satisfied with being a marriage tool, runs away from home overnight. On the way out, she accidentally saved Snow, a man who calls himself a nobleman in distress. Olive, who lost her belongings because of her helpfulness towards others, decides to seize Snow’s house for her own business plan. With her own efforts, she was able to build up her jewelry stand business.
(from ebookjapan):In the deep snowy forests of Sweden, Vincent Minnelli, a doctor, mistook a girl for an antelope and shot her while he was hunting. The girl he shot, Joana, was unharmed, but she told Vincent a shocking story, and the next morning she disappeared without a trace. Instead, he was visited by an emissary of General Ambrose du Closter, the head of the castle of Scorchloster, a mansion on the shores of a lake. General Closter was interested in Vincent's books and research and wanted to invite him to his mansion. Vincent went to the house as requested and was introduced to his daughter, Mona Lisa, by the general. To Vincent's surprise, Mona Lisa is a duplicate of Joanna. Vincent thought they were the same person, but Mona Lisa told him that she had never met Vincent. The others also testified that Mona Lisa had been at the pavilion yesterday, and no one knew Joana. The Mona Lisa disliked her governess, Miss Corban, and adored her ailing mother, Camilla, who did not recognize her as her own daughter and hated her. The inhabitants of the pavilion are entangled in a complex web of emotions. Soon, Mona Lisa is at the mercy of a spectacular, bloodcurdling, and horrific love-hate drama. What is the fate of Mona Lisa in "Mona Lisa's Room," Masako Watanabe's masterpiece of bizarre romance? And what is Joanna's true identity? Also contains a short mystery one-shot, "A Kiss For Uncle...": Liza is a girl of a wealthy background who was taken in by her aunt after her parents died. Liza's 17th birthday is on the horizon - and once she turns 17, she will gain access to a wealthy fortune. One day, alone at home, she stumbles upon a letter from her beloved uncle - who had ran off with another woman and died 5 years prior - claiming that he is alive. After this, a series of strange events begin to occur around Liza....