This volume contains three one-shots by Shinohara Chie.
Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame:
Morimura Shiki is a young and talented screen writer who is favored to win the upcoming title of Best Screen Writer of the year, especially now that she has murdered her rival Minase Masako. She is sure she left nothing at the scene to tie her to the crime, but someone approaches her and says he knows what she did. What will Shiki do now??
Kioku no Ashioto:
Shouko was distracted. She knew her boyfriend Yukiya was going to end their relationship, and with her mind trying to think of a way to convince him otherwise, she did not see the man who jumped in front of her car. Horrified that she had run over someone, she looked to Yukiya for help, who told her that he would take care of everything. Yukiya took the man's body and secretly buried it in the mountains, but will that moment of weakness cost Shouko her life?
Shikeidai no 72jikan:
Natsuki Kiriko has received a mysterious invitation to spend a few days at a fancy lodge called "The Orchard House". When she arrives, she finds 4 other young people there who had also been invited. After welcoming them, the hostess declares that the 5 of them had been chosen b/c they were all suspects of her son's murder 4 years ago. If one of them did not confess his/her guilt, they would all 5 die by the end of their stay! Kiriko knows she did not kill the hostess's son, but everyone else says the same. Can she find the real killer before she loses her life??
(Note: This story was published also in Shinohara Chie's "Toubou Kyuukou")

Lumi and Luka Kobayakawa are identical twins who both are members of the track team and have a crush on a handsome upperclassman Katsuyuki Tohma, but he chooses the latter. While Luka doesn't want to hurt Lumi's feelings, Lumi feels betrayed by her own sister. On their way to the party celebrating the graduation of eldest members of the team, they take shelter in a cave, which turns out to be a mass grave, and all members were killed by the strange smell from the cave, with Lumi and Luka only survivors. After the tragedy, Lumi has become a completely different person, and one day she literally emerges from the floor of Luka's room....
(Taken from ANN)

This volume contains 3 one-shots by Shinohara Chie.
Toubou Kyuukou:
Natsumi is a young journalist who aspires to get that one big scoop that will put her on the map. Searching for something that might make a good story, she drives around at night and comes upon a murder scene. Wanting to find out more, she stops to ask questions of the investigators, but is taken hostage by a guy covered in blood! Is this story worth risking her own life??
Shissou Toshi:
Keiko wakes up one morning naked and with a huge hangover in a hotel room next to a guy that she had only met the night before. Horrified as she realized what she had done, she rushed back to her home, worried about what might happen if her strict husband ever found out. However, she discovers her husband dead at her house and she is now the prime suspect! Can Keiko prove her innocence?
Shikeidai no 72jikan:
Natsuki Kiriko has received a mysterious invitation to spend a few days at a fancy lodge called "The Orchard House". When she arrives, she finds 4 other young people there who had also been invited. After welcoming them, the hostess declares that the 5 of them had been chosen b/c they were all suspects of her son's murder 4 years ago. If one of them did not confess his/her guilt, they would all 5 die by the end of their stay! Kiriko knows she did not kill the hostess's son, but everyone else says the same. Can she find the real killer before she loses her life??
(Note: This story was published also in Shinohara Chie's "Umi ni Ochiru Tsubame")

A collection of short stories by the author.

Titles in which they are under:

1) Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni...

? Someone in the Dark (Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni) - A Midnight Visitor : Masami finished summer camp and returned home. However, her mother and brother are nowhere to be seen. Only a mysterious shadow follows Masami...!?

? And the Bell Rings 5 Times

? Kind Killer.

2) Mokugekisha ni Sayounara
3) Nanika ga Yami de Miete Iru
4) 3 Hitome ga Kieta

From ShoujoMagic:
Izumi Erina is a senior in high school. She only has one living relative--her older brother Takashi. However, Erina receives an arrest notice for Takashi one day, who is supposed to be in Turkey at the time!! In order to look for Takashi, a mysterious man Sinclair came to Japan and brought Erina along with him. What is the "Black Trap" that awaits Erina in a foreign country...!? A shocking Suspense Romance work filled with waves of love and hate!!

After moving to a new city, Soko inexplicably begins to feel sick. At school, as beautiful as she is, a lot of guys start to bother her, especially Kashi. When Kashi tries to rape her, however, he disappears, and a few days later another man shows up posing as Kashi. The only thing is, though he looks nothing like Kashi, only Soko can tell he's a fake! The new man tells her he's Akira the Byakko, from the family of the West. Because she's the reincarnation of Souryo from the family of the East, the queen of the demons, she must be destroyed. He's the only one who can kill her, and it's his duty to do so. Is she really a monster? Why does she have human memories? Why does she have to die? Will she be able to change her destiny and live on?
(Source: Storm in Heaven)

No one knows where this hotel is, but it is a mysterious hotel where only those who take a gloomy view of life or who are getting into a blind alley could reach. Today again, "guests" who want to bury the past or even their lives are guided to "Kiri-no-Mori Hotel." (Source: Shogakukan)

From Aerandria Scans:
Rinko is an ordinary girl who was born with a mysterious birthmark on her left arm. But when that mark starts to get darker, strange accidents begin to happen everywhere around her, involving even the people she cares about. What will the powerful magic awakening inside Rinko bring her?

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In a regular school travel, the bus Rika Nikaidou took fell into a lake, drowning everyone on board except her. She vaguely remembered a person fed an item into her mouth when she was suffocating in water, but that was all she could recall. After her recovery, she found herself more and more agile in water, capable to stay underwater over ten minutes, while feeling less and less comfortable on land. One day, when she was practicing in school's pool, a beautiful yet completely stranger girl suddenly appeared in water, trying to to "reclaim the 'seed'" from Rika with force. (Source: ANN)

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.

Ryouko Midorikawa is a girl in her first year of high school. One day the cat she had raised and loved for 15 years suddenly dies. Although Pow hated water, he died drowning. Ryouko is lost in questions about the cause of his death. But from that night on, terrible things start happening everywhere around her!

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Yuri lived the peaceful, average teenage life until Queen Nakia drew Yuri across time and space into the ancient Hittite Empire to use her as a sacrifice! Yuri meets many different friends throughout her journey to find a way home, but when the season of the North Star comes, enabling Prince Kail to send Yuri home, can she make it back, or have her growing feelings for Kail become too much? Check out Anatolia Story to find out!