From Aerandria Scans: Kogure-sou is a crumbling old apartment building of just six rooms where four people live. On the first floor are the owner, a very old man who wants to have sex before he dies, and a girl in university who pines in a sad and complicated love. On the second floor are a salary man who finds meaning to his life in spying on the university girl below him, and Mayu whose boyfriend disappeared three years ago. Also involved are the florist from the nearby shop who worries over her husband's infidelity and Mine who is still troubled by a crime committed a long time ago. What all of them strive for is love, but they all find nothing but pain and bitter disappointments. Do they realize that what heals them is actually the run-down little apartment building and the real human warmth that they share with each other?
Nao didn't know what love was yet when a respected teacher told her, "...that all you need to do in order to draw is fall in love." Now a student at an arts college, Nao still isn't good at drawing portraits. Even when she stays up all night she can never finish an assignment. Could it be she can't draw because she's never been in love...? To help Nao overcome her artistic block, a friend forces her on a group date where she can get used to being around guys... and possibly fall in love?
from fictiondb: She didn't intend to deceive him When Philomena Peabody met her boss's son, he was suffering temporary snow blindness. "You sound like somebody's mother;" Penn Wilderman said, convinced by her no-nonsense attitude that she was "a sweet little old lady." Even after she'd moved into his luxurious mansion to help look after his son, Phil couldn't disillusion Penn about her age. To help win a custody battle for his teenage son, Phil agreed to marry Penn. But she dreaded facing him once the bandages were off, and he could see his attractive twenty-seven-year-old wife....
Ena Sasamoto is about to get married to an old childhood friend when he leaves her at the altar to run off with another bride...!! Shocking as it may be, Ena isn't too deflated. She only went along with the marriage because her parents kept pushing it. Still, to ease their pain, she and Rihito Hishida, the would-be-groom of the other bride, decide to have some drinks together... except they wake up the next day in the same bed...!Read on to see a romance that starts with the honeymoon and what happens to an uptight but rich hottie when he travels with a spunky girl who goes for what she wants!
Anthology of oneshots.Keiko's at a wedding for the one she loved. She wants to cry, but sees that the guy, Haru, next to her crying. Keiko feels that they can get along since they were both rejected. But Keiko finds out that Haru was gay and that they both loved the same guy. The two of them get along real well and start to live with one another. But Keiko starts to fall in love with Haru and doesn't know what to do...This volume also includes 2 other stories: Honey and Sekai De Ichiban Yasashii Kiss.
Chubby and plain, Taeko's biggest worry is whether she'll ever have the courage to tell her crush how she feels. Then one day a mysterious cousin comes to stay and Taeko's world is shattered. Cast out of her own home after her mother's death, Taeko stumbles into the night and is hit by a truck. When she wakes up, she's greeted by a doctor who promises to turn her life around. And thus begins a tale of revenge and intrigue that's a roller coaster of cracked out soap opera fun from start to finish.
Childish Rui Sasaki is 25 years old, single, and a virgin. All she wants is to fall in love like everyone else and have sex with a nice boyfriend! While lamenting over this during drinks with her childhood friend, Naoko, she met Ritsu, a modest and handsome man. He was kind enough to listen to her complaints and take care of her drunken self. Suddenly, an intoxicated Rui falls on top of Ritsu and kisses him...?! For two beginners in love, each with their own issues, is it possible for love to start with sex? A pure story of two people in a complicated love affair is set to begin.
Having been forced to leave the side of passionate Rin three years earlier, Sarasa thinks she has found happiness again in the gentle arms of Akira. But fate plays bittersweet tricks when least expected, and what may have seemed like the past has its ways of catching up.
from fictiondb: Small-town girl Trudy Baxter is ready to take on New York City. She's looking for excitement, adventure...and incredible sex! She wants to experience every little thing -- and every type of man -- the city has to offer. Her first target -- sexy Wall Street hunk Linc Faulkner. Only, once she gets Linc into her bed, she's reluctant to let him go.... Linc Faulkner has never met anybody like Trudy. She's so spirited, so sexy, so damn uninhibited! She's his every fantasy in the flesh. Only, Linc knows he's just the first man on Trudy's sexual wish list. So what else can he do but convince her that he can be any man she'll ever want -- and the only man she'll ever need....
from fictiondb: WANTED: MARRIAGE-MINDED MEN Addy Edson was looking for a husband, and she knew just the guy to help her with her search. But what she hadn't expected were the warm, sensuous "practice kisses" that her childhood friend Joe Barrington was bent on giving her--or the way they made her feel .... Joe was more than happy to help Addy find a groom, especially since it meant the redheaded beauty would be practicing her sexy charms on him! But how could he convince her that a lifetime of happiness--and nighttimes of passion--could be found in his arms?
From Midnight Scans: I'm always into trouble since you’re impertinent, a bit perverted but cute. My mind is driving me mad by being attracted to a handsome youth who is 4 years younger than me! Please teach me!! On the hinge of recession, Tamako joins a household chores company, "Smile Maid". Having an affair will make her lose her job. Uehara is her next job place, and its only son, Yuu-kun tells her that he knows how to cover the affair. The partner who will evaluate her works is a high school student who always makes Tamako’s heart skip a beat!!
Sakura is reunited with Kenshou, a man who is 9 years younger than her, who she has thoroughly rejected in the past. Now that Kenshou has grown up, can Sakura set aside her reservations about dating a younger man?
