Ai Ni Furuete / Original Title: DANGEROUS ALLIANCE (Harlequin SP Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Her mother, the love of her life, has been diagnosed with cancer, and she doesn't have long to live. When LeeAnne returns to her hometown, she is met at the airport by her brother-in-law, Dimitri, whom she never wanted to see again. Ever since her mother remarried his father, she had been in love with her brother, whom she was not related to. But on the night of her 21st birthday, her feelings for him were coldly rejected, and a hurt LeeAnne had been avoiding him. Dimitri makes her an unexpected proposal. She is so hurt that she has been avoiding him ever since.

大好きな母が癌におかされ、余命幾ばくもないなんて...。故郷に舞い戻ったリーアンを空港で出迎えたのは、二度と顔を合わせたくなっかた義兄のディミートリだった。母が彼の父と再婚してからずっと、彼女は血のつながらない兄に恋していた。だが、21歳を迎えた夜、彼女の淡い想いは冷たく拒まれ、傷ついたリーアンは彼を避け続けてきたのだ。そんな彼女にディミートリは思いがけない提案をする。死の床にいる母を安心させるために偽装結婚をしよう、と。