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Влюблённый принц, сверкающий Chopard, серебристый Mercedes, тысячи лайков в Instagram… Идеально-романтичный happy end? Но это сказка для взрослых. Здесь головокружительные взлёты и падения, судьбоносные встречи и расставания, мечты об искренности отношений и соблазны шоу-бизнеса… Верные друзья охраняют репутацию, завистливые подруги портят нервы и прическу, звёзды Голливуда поднимают настроение, а Принцесса Милана продолжает искать свой путь. Куда приведут её звёзды?

Successful businessman Ryan Bennett had agreed to masquerade as his wealthy cousin for a blind date. But from the moment Ryan saw Julie Nelson to the moment he should have said good-night, he was captivated and couldn't resist an invitation to share her bed.In the hazy afterglow of their heated lovemaking, Ryan confessed his true identity, claiming the passion between them was real despite his deception, but Julie wasn't buying it. Obviously she considered him the enemy. Except now she was having the enemy's baby….

SHE HAD NOTHING TO LOSE IF HE WAS LYING – ASIDE FROM HER VIRTUE… Jack Worth lives a life of roguish adventure, money-making schemes and ever-changing women. He’ll be damned if he’ll settle down and find a wife…until he inherits a noble title and estate – but without the riches. Distant cousin Laurel is the unwitting heir to all the money.Brought up in a Spanish convent, and longing for a family of her own, she’s prepared to enter into a marriage of convenience. Finding a home in Jack’s arms is more than she could have dreamt about, but deception and mistaken identities test her new-found love to the limit.

A wife worth waiting for…Dashing – but cynical – Quint Seavers lives for danger. A past betrayal has made him wary about love, and he has no idea that independent, practical Annie Gustavson holds a secret long-time passion for him. Nor does he realise that the only reason Annie has travelled to San Francisco is to win his love – or walk away for ever.When disaster strikes the city, Annie’s courage and determination match his own – and suddenly Quint knows that she is exactly what’s been missing in his life all along…

Fleeing an arranged marriage, debutante Elizabeth Manning exchanges places with a mail-order bride bound for New Harmony, Iowa. Life on the frontier can't be worse than forced wedlock to pay her father's gambling debts.But Ted Logan's rustic lifestyle and rambunctious children prove to be more of a challenge than Elizabeth expects. She doesn't know how to be a mother or a wife. She doesn't even know how to tell Ted the truth about her past–especially as her feelings for him grow. Little does she know, Ted's hiding secrets of his own, and when their pasts collide, there's more than one heart at stake.