Melissa’s dull life is turned upside down when cynical Peter Darcy mistakes her for her frivolous flatmate, Sonia.

Sonia is Peter’s cousin and Melissa is immediately caught up in the sinister battle over their family business and is persuaded to maintain the deception to shield Sonia from a rift with her dying grandmother.

As Melissa becomes increasingly involved with the arrogant family, she is swept helplessly out of her depth, both in love and ruthless intrigue and is forced to play the masquerade through to the end to learn the truth about the difference between masquerade and reality.

Donna Madison is an experienced journalist. Her brother has vanished without explanation, and she is hot on his trail. She accepts a mundane assignment in Darwin because she is sure he is up there. Life suddenly becomes a lot less boring when she discovers him, and she is hurtled into danger. Also what is the secret agenda of the interesting Lang Torrens? Is he involved with the drug runners, or is he a perfectly innocent photographer?

Josie Sutherland is a computer journalist, and her quiet stopover in Hong Kong is thrown into chaos when she witnesses a failed robbery.

She suspects the victim, Carey Court, is involved in software smuggling when they are both kidnapped. The instant attraction between them complicates everything.

When they escape Josie decides to masquerade as a drug courtier with Carey to get her story about the software smuggling. They move through an underworld of danger, intrigue and death. The fact they are only masquerading is kept secret, so nearly everyone is out to get them. Their romance deepens to become their only reality in a make believe and dangerous world.

When the ailing family business of Merriland's Florists merges with Westwood Flowers, Merry, one of the partners of Merriland's, resents the new partner Sean Westwood.

He tramples over her decisions, especially those concerning her irresponsible but charming cousin, Robert Townsend.

Robert vanishes at the same time as the company's money. Merry's frantic search for him causes Sean to assume that Merry is Robert's accomplice. Merry, caught between the half-truths and evasions of Robert's fiancée Toni, ignores her growing attraction to Sean. When she discovers that love is the key that unlocks the mystery of Robert's disappearance and that of the money, her own conflict about roses for romance is solved.