New Release Books by Kakuko Shinozaki

A sophisticated man from the city. He lives in a different world than I do... Kayla, a veterinarian who devoted herself to animal protection and lived with her dogs in the woods, came across a luxury car that was having an accident on a stormy day. The man driving the car, who went by the name Alan, was badly injured. She tok him home, but the weather worsens, the phones and roads were down... and Kayla and Alan found themselves cut off from the world! Kayla began to fall in love with Alan, a lawyer with a soft, urban vibe. She knew they lived in different worlds, but they finally ended up in bed together...!

One night's love is all I want. I don't want anything more than that... Two years ago, Edie lost her husband , and since then she had been distracting herself by keeping busy with her actress mother and her sister's manager business. One day, she mes Nick, a famous architect, at a party and has a strange feeling for him. However, when she rebuked an approaching Nick and left him, she realized her mother's intentions. I have vowed to never fall in love again, but she's trying to introduce a man to me... Edie approached Nick again. And now he makes me an offer, acting like he understands my feelings?

I’ve never known love before, but now I’m the bride of a desert prince… One night, the princesses’ governess Olivia is kidnapped by a man in black who climbs in through the palace window. When she awakes, she and the man are involved in a ritual she doesn’t understand. Olivia, who knows nothing about love, is unable to resist his dangerous charms and gives herself up to him body and soul. It isn’t until afterward that she learns the astonishing truth: he’s Zayed, the prince of the neighboring country, and Olivia was kidnapped and married by mistake in the place of the princess. Zayed accuses her: “Did you allow yourself to be seduced because I’m a prince?”

The woman the playboy fell for had a sorrowful past… To escape a scandal, Gabe travels to London to stay with his cousin and suggests they trade places for a while when he sees how hard his cousin has to work to maintain his castle and estate. At the castle, Gabe meets Freddie, a woman who claims to be the manager of the place. Being a widow with a daughter to care for, she’s not at all Gabe’s usual type. Yet there’s something about Freddie’s sad past that draws his attention…

He was her first love…but someone wants revenge. When Lily returns to her hometown, she’s surprised to see Jack, her first love. Ten years ago, that love was torn apart by Lily's father against her will. But Jack has matured into a sophisticated and wealthy man. After sharing a gentle kiss, Lily finds she still desires Jack. But she hides an important secret from him…

Her grandfather’s prized treasure is gone! Karin’s brother put the family heirloom up for auction for money. In order to get it back, she visits the auction winner, a shipping industry tycoon named Xante. But she makes a mistake and is accused of trying to steal it. However, instead of charging her with theft, Xante offers her an extraordinary proposition: “If you really want it back, I’ll consider it. But it’ll cost you your body.”

Tori and her boss, Jeff, are great together physically, but friends with benefits isn't enough anymore. She doesn't want to spend the rest of her life without love. So Tori makes the life-changing decision to break off her relationship with Jeff and start over in a new town. Then she learns she’s pregnant! When Jeff finds out, he suggests they get married for the child’s sake. Tori is furious. “How is marriage going to solve anything when we don’t love each other?”

Whenever attorney Pippa starts hearing Christmas carols in town, she throws herself into her work to forget her heartbreak from a Christmas long ago. Then one day Pippa meets businessman Roscoe and he asks for an unusual favor. He wants her to make his brother fall for her in order to lure him away from his delinquent friends. Pippa is annoyed that he sees her value only in her beauty, but she ends up accepting the job anyway. Soon she starts to see Roscoe more clearly—he’s just like her. They’ve both closed off their hearts from love.

Laurie was excited about her trip to China and Hong Kong…until someone sneaked into her apartment before her departure. She senses that the thief was after the ring that her boss made her keep. Her boss wanted to plan a surprise gift for his wife as an apology for his unfaithful past, but Laurie quickly regrets getting involved. She doesn’t have any choice but to bring it on the trip and becomes nervous when a mysterious man stares at her. But it turns out the mysterious man, Tyler Gray, is actually her company CEO, and he’s come all the way to Hong Kong just to track a missing page from a research document!

The year is 1938. Dee is studying to become a nurse. Her breath catches when she meets her beautiful sister’s boyfriend, Mark, for the first time. She has never met a handsome, cheerful man with such a booming voice before. Even while dating her sister, Mark treats Dee as a lady, and she falls for him and the way he takes her seriously. Dee hopes that he will hurry up and marry her sister so she can forget about her feelings for him. But Dee has no idea what her sister is feeling. She also doesn’t know about Mark’s uninhibited relationships or his rash and reckless dream.

Professional landscaper Sorrel James has had nothing but trials in her professional life and her love life, and she’s at her wits’ end. She’s had a streak of bad luck ever since her last client, several months ago. He asked her to marry him, but as soon as she said no, his professionalism vanished. He accused her of theft and has been slandering her ever since. Sorrel doesn’t know how to trust men anymore. That’s when she stumbles across an old monastery in the country that has fallen into disrepair. She’s fascinated by it and wants to be the one to redesign the grounds. She goes to persuade the owner in person: eccentric, handsome Garde Chevenay. To her surprise, he agrees to hire her, but is there more to him than meets the eye?

Lindsey first met her stepbrother when she was ten years old. Lucas was seventeen and handsome, and after her real mother died, he treated her very kindly. Before she knew it, Lindsey started to think of Lucas quite fondly. However, after the sudden death of their parents, the two of them were left alone. Lucas, once kind and loving, grew cold and reserved, as if he’d become another person. Worse, he was pressuring her to get married. Why was he trying to push her away?

Elizabeth’s heart is breaking with worry about her twin sister. April went missing the day after their last argument. Elizabeth contacts the nightclub where April works, but to no avail. Her neighbor John is there to listen to her when she’s at her wit’s end. He’s a detective and his kindness encourages her to open herself up to him. With the possibility that her sister might be in danger, the two begin their own investigation.?

Seeking comfort, Elizabeth spends a night with John, but now she feels guilty for seeking solace while her sister is still missing. Adding to her sense of guilt, a new clue about her sister's whereabouts is found, and it proves that her sister is indeed in trouble. Her wishful thinking that her sister had just taken a trip is shattered. Exhausted to the core, she’s supported by John, who keeps chasing their suspect. But it’s beginning to feel as if the perpetrator is mocking them…

【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Betrayed and hurt by her husband, Jenna fled London for Glenmore Island. Her daughter, Lexi, is bored by their new quiet life on the small island, but she and Jenna gradually find happiness in their new home. However, Jenna’s heart is aflutter for the island doctor, Ryan. He’s a talented physician, but more than that, he’s intensely attractive. If only Jenna’s emotional wounds weren’t so deep, she’d obediently pursue her heart…

Mallory took in her nephew, Matthew, after her brother and his wife died, and she vowed to raise the child with all the love she had. But Matthew’s uncle, the wild Jordan, said that he was going to sell their house, and she had to get out. He was the owner, and he had been against his sister’s marriage to Mallory’s brother. When Jordan learned about little Matthew’s existence, he started fighting for custody, but Mallory wouldn’t give up on Matthew that easily. Maybe Jordan’s surprising proposal of a loveless marriage of convenience is the answer all three of them need!

Programmer Gina is sent to a ranch in the outback for work. The client is Parish, an unrefined man with a huge personality. Between the inconveniences of outback life and the self-centered things Parish says, Gina is almost driven crazy. But through all their disagreements, the two can’t take their eyes off each other. When Gina suddenly finds herself held snugly against his burly chest, kissed by him over and over again, her determination to resist him is put to the ultimate test!

Mia was in love with the son of the family her parents worked for. One night, she took care of him when he showed up injured. They then became intimate. Their intimate moment was witnessed by Carlos’ mother and she yelled at her for not knowing her place. Mia then moved out for college. She launched her own event company after college and now lives a happy life. One day, she receives an event request from Carlos’ family. She tells herself not to mix her personal feelings with her business. She’s a mature woman now. But she soon learns her decision has been a wrong one in a hard way.

When Ella and Matt meet at their mutual friends' wedding, they fall for each other. But they have their own circumstances, and they know that in the end, they'll need to say goodbye. And neither of them are interested in a long-distance relationship. So they make a deal: one passionate week together, and then it's over. Ella and the short-tempered Matt butt heads by day, but their chemistry in bed leaves nothing to be desired. The days they spend together are so sweet, they seem like a dream. But as the day of their parting draws closer, Ella gradually feels an emptiness growing inside her heart. "Now that I know this feeling," Ella muses to herself, "perhaps I should take the plunge." What will she decide in the end?

Maddy is an event planner working for the famous jewelry designer Aleksei Petrov. As soon as he asks her to help him organize a tour of Europe, she realizes she has a problem. He’s so attractive she can barely control herself around him. Before long Maddy can’t resist his charms, and her relationship with Aleksei crosses the line between professional and personal. But she knows it can’t last. To Aleksei, Maddy’s no more than the object of his desire, and until she can get over her painful past, Maddy knows no relationship of hers can truly have a future.

After a tragic romance in her past, Cory became frightened of men. But when she meets a man by the name of Rome, she finds herself incredibly attracted to him and falls head over heels. But she doesn’t know that he has an ulterior motive. When they have to take shelter from the rain at a hotel, Cory offers herself to him, but Rome hesitates to give in to the passion between them. Cory, embarrassed, tries to run away. Seeing her innocent reaction, Rome finally loses his self-control, capturing her in his embrace and kissing her with abandon!

Rebecca stays with a wealthy family, the Kinrosses, to write a biography of the great actress Fiona Kinross. However, her work doesn’t make much progress because of Fiona’s younger brother, Stewart, who is also the head of the family. He keeps making unwanted advances and distracting Rebecca from her work. Despite her indifference to him and his fortune, people around her believe that she’s a gold digger, especially Stewart’s son, Brod, who doesn’t hide his animosity toward her. There seems to be a deep hatred between the father and son. But when he looks at her, Rebecca also senses burning, irresistible lust in Brod’s eyes!

Rachel is a talented ecologist who has grown tired of doing physically demanding fieldwork and is seeking a job in a clean and warm office. However, she’s had some trouble adjusting to office life, leaving her doubtful about her ability to become a button-down model employee. Rachel falls into a slump, until she unexpectedly meets an explorer named Grant, who hires her as his secretary. It seems like this time she’s finally found her ideal job! Rachel is ecstatic, but she’s about to find out there’s more to this job than she ever expected!

On their wedding day, the groom didn’t join his bride, Jill, at the altar. He'd told her he loved her, but was everything a lie? That was ten years ago. Now, the once-miserable bride is a successful lawyer and engaged to a politician. One evening, Jill is reunited with the missing groom, Reid, at a political party they’re both attending! Reid…the man who threw her away. But why? She can’t believe her heart still stirs at the sight of him… But then again, Jill has a secret that Reid doesn’t know?her nine-year-old son, Andy. Yes, he’s unmistakably Reid’s son!