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Valentine’s Day is celebrated with greeting cards, flowers, chocolates, romantic dinners and other gifts — all in the name of love. Legend has it that St. Valentine actually sent the first valentine while in jail. It is said that he fell in love with the jailer’s daughter and, before his execution Feb. 14, he left a letter to his beloved signed, “from your Valentine.” Not all tales of love are as sad as this. Check out some of love’s many highlights and lowlights in the following entertaining reads.

 “The Importance of Being Married” by Gemma Townley is a humorous tale where Jessica Wild rolls out “Project Marriage” with a little help from her friends. The task is a 50-day assignment where Jessica needs to get her boss, Anthony Milton, to fall in love and marry her by the project’s end. She stands to lose a small fortune, which she is set to inherit not as Jessica Wild, but as Mrs. Jessica Milton. There’s only one small problem: Anthony hardly even acknowledges that Jessica exists. This is the first adventure in Townley’s Wild trilogy.

 Anna, an interior designer, has bought a fixer-upper. She’s renovating her newly acquired cottage and hoping to turn a profit. As an added bonus the cottage is near the mother of Anna’s crush, Max Gordon. They are reunited after attending a school reunion and Anna is swept off her feet. Predictably love isn’t that easy. Find out how Katie Forde’s heroine stumbles into love in “Practically Perfect.”

 Melissa Romney-Jones is unemployed yet again. Rather than look for a new position at another office, she branches out to start her own etiquette business for bachelors. Melissa reinvents herself as Honey Blennerhesket, donning a blonde wig while running the Little Lady Agency. Melissa’s alter-ego brings out a new self-confidence. Honey hires out her organizational expertise to be a personal shopper, attend parties as a bachelor’s “date,” and even helps a client leave his girlfriend. Enter Jonathan Riley, who employs Honey on a regular basis, and Melissa soon discovers she’s falling for Jonathan. Find out how long she can continue to juggle and hide behind Honey’s assertive facade in Hester Browne’s “The Little Lady Agency.”