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Beginning of 16th century, Alexandra was captured by slave traders in Ukraine during one of their many raids. When the traders arrived in Greece to sell the female slaves, a young handsome man named Mateus bought her and promised to give her true freedom. He hired countless teachers, scholars, and palace ladies to train her into the most perfect woman of her time. Mateus’s kindness has caused Alexandra to deeply fall in love with him, and she secretly wishes to be his concubine. But cruel fate! Mateus has already promised her to his best friend? Suleiman the Great, Emperor of the Ottoman Empire! Mateus promised Alexandra of true freedom, but where is freedom when she is in another man’s harem and can only look at the one she loves from afar? Not willing to endure agony, Alexandra promises herself that one day, she will free both of them from their bird cages, but Mateus is the Grand Vizier, power only second to the Emperor himself. So Alexandra must become the most influential concubine in order to have any hope... which also means, bearing Suleiman’s son. However, Suleiman already has a son by another concubine, and this woman is determined to keep her son as the only prince. Hence begins the story of a slave to an empress of the greatest empire of all time, Alexandra, the woman who would one day be known as Roxolana, Empress of the Ottoman Empire.

Kayase Shiki's oneshot is a gloomy ten-page tale.

Yumi is a shy and maybe a little awkward business woman who's unsatisfied with her work life. One day she finds a ragged stuffed doll on the side of the road. She names it Kurumi and decides to clean him up and finds herself forgetting about her problems and enjoying life again.

Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever... A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age. Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing. The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book—an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!

Asou is an office worker who has been entrusted with the key to her senpai's room, to take care of her pets while she is gone. Thanks to this, she discovers that Mochizuki-senpai has a hidden face that no one in her office knows about.

Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day her world is turned upside down when husband has a subarachnoid hemorrhage and upon arriving at the hospital, Yuria is met by a tearful young man who announces that he is her husband's lover.

From Aerandria Scans: Quitting her job, Suzu comes back to her hometown after six years. On her way back home, she fell into a hole, and was saved by Sou, the guy who dug that hole. Her first impression of him was horrible. But Suzu started to be attracted by this guy, who weaved his way into her heart before she realized it?!

Saika and her father are trying to hold on to their small coffee shop against redevelopment. When her father was hospitalized for the stress, Saika  was kidnapped by the heir of the development company and locked up in his apartment. He doesn't just want Saika's land, he wants her to marry him, too!

Master of the Haunted Inn introduces us to a young man sometime in middle Meiji-- the late 1880s or early 1890s. He owns an inn where people are said to be able to see the ghosts of their loved ones.To this place comes a young woman who was married to a man she'd never seen before, an invalid whose dying wish was to wed her. He died on the same day as they met. Even with this history, she feels herself his wife and desires earnestly to see him again.In other stories we have lovers yearning for a last meeting, a little girl out looking for her father, and a young temple servant, dead many centuries, who cannot rest in peace.

With one word, he is the king standing above all people. Regrettably, he plays with me in the palm of his hand. But this ultimate man makes other women interested in him too…!! Second story: Two in Paradise Third story: Love Promised in the Cosmos

"I won't let him get away with this, that horrible man!" After reading an article that slanders her best friend Sarah, Carrie bursts into an independent newspaper publishing corporation to complain. There she finds a man with gray eyes so handsome, he takes Carrie's breath away. The man seems indifferent to Carrie's anger and, rather than attend to her complaint, teases her. Despite their constant arguing, a special relationship forms between them, but Carrie's painful past means she is too afraid to love again. But they both can't pretend not to notice their passionate love for each other burning within...