1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning Novel

Alisa, seorang gadis miskin yang terpaksa bekerja paruh waktu sebagai pemandu karaoke di sebuah klub malam, demi untuk bisa bersekolah dan menyambung hidupnya. Pertemuan tidak sengaja dengan seorang pengusaha sukses yang tampan, mapan namun sangat dingin, Tuan Malik, di klub tempat ia bekerja justru menjadikannya berakhir tinggal bersama sebagai anak asuhnya. Didalam satu atap, banyak hal yang terjadi disana. Selain masalah, benih-benih cinta pun mulai bersemi diantara keduanya. Apa yang akan terjadi antara mereka? Simak terus kelanjutannya!

Alisya adalah anak tunggal. Namun dia memiliki cukup banyak kakak tiri dengan beragam karakter. Setelah berhasil lepas dari Axel, kakak tirinya yang cerewet dan protektif, Alisya dihadapkan pada kakak tirinya yang lain. Andra, kakak tirinya yang dingin dan tak banyak bicara, namun diam-diam menghanyutkan. Raditya, kakak tirinya yang ramah dan baik hati. Alisya menganggap mereka sebagai kakak sendiri mulanya. Namun semuanya berubah seiring berjalannya waktu.

Dikhianati suami yang selingkuh dengan wanita malam di saat hamil besar membuat Andini Larasati (Dini) tertekan dalam ke jalani kehamilannya, dan membuat bayinya meninggal ketika lahir ke dunia. Takdir juga tidak adil terhadap Lingga Alfaruq (Lingga), bayi laki-laki itu harus kehilangan sang ibu ketika lahir ke dunia ini. Hannan Alfaruq (Hannan) —ayah kandung Lingga justru mengabaikannya, menganggap bayi itu menjadi penyebab meninggalnya wanita yang dia sayangi. Lingga ternyata alergi dengan protein, dia tidak cocok dengan susu Formula yang rumah sakit berikan, termasuk susu Soya. Rumah sakit kebingungan karena bagaimanapun juga bayi itu harus mendapat asupan. Dini yang tidak sengaja mendengar itu semua merasa berempati dan dia ingin mendonorkan ASI-nya untuk Lingga. Hingga akhirnya Hannan berpikir memperkerjakan Dini sebagai ibu susu untuk putranya. Apakah Dini menerima tawaran Hannan menjadi ibu susu untuk Lingga? Baca kisah lengkapnya hanya di sini. Jangan lupa masukan ke pustaka cerita ini, dan tinggalkan jejak komen agar Author tahu seberapa banyak pembaca yang tertarik sama cerita ini. Terima kasih sudah mampir.

Pertemuan awal yang hanya berdurasi 120 menit, telah membawa Leo dan Rania ke dalam hubungan suci pernikahan. Akan tetapi, pasangan tersebut dihadapkan pada situasi yang sangat menyakitkan, kehadiran orang ketiga, hingga membuat Leo melayangkan gugatan cerai terhadap Leo. Apakah pernikahan mereka akan tetap bertahan? Atau mereka memilih berpisah?

"Dia siapa, Ma?" Entah kenapa aku gugup sendiri saat tanya itu mencuat. Aku belum berani melihat jelas wajahnya. Sampai Bu Tya memperkenalkanku padanya. "Ning, kenalkan ini anak sulung saya, Zen Maulana. Zen, ini Ning yang mau bantu mama bersih-bersih rumah. Dia juga mau kerja di kantin kampus." Aku yang baru saja menginjakkan kaki di anak tangga terakhir terlonjak kaget. Nama itu, tidak asing bagiku. Apa hanya sebuah kebetulan nama lengkapnya sama. Aku memberanikan diri melihat wajah anak sulung Bu Tya. Seketika kotak yang kupegang jatuh membuat isinya berhamburan. Rasa-rasanya kepalaku bagai dihantam palu. Aku tidak menyangka akan bertemu laki-laki masa lalu di rumah besar ini. Nasib yang menurutku baik bertemu Bu Tya ternyata disertai kejutan besar bertemu orang yang membuatku tidak tenang di tiga tahun terakhir hidupku. "Zen? Dia benar-benar Zen yang sama, Zen Maulana." Tanganku mendadak tremor. Bulir keringat sebesar biji jagung bermunculan. Bahkan tenggorokan terasa tercekat. Aku dilanda ketakutan seperti seorang penjahat yang menanti eksekusi hukuman. Pandangan mulai mengabur dan gelap. Lutut lemas seolah tak bertulang, aku terhuyung. Sebelum kesadaranku hilang, sayup-sayup telingaku menangkap suara. Nama panggilan yang biasa Zen sebut untukku. "Han!" Simak ceritanya, yuk.

I once believed Sarah Weller was the love of my life. For her, I planned a once-in-a-lifetime wedding; for her, I launched a “True Love” jewelry collection worth over a billion. However, with only seven days left before the wedding, she calmly told me that she needed to fulfill her first love’s late mother’s final wish to marry him first, and only then marry me. As if it were a matter of fact, she said, “For Tim, all of this can be sacrificed. If you can’t even bear to lose that little bit of money, you can find someone else to marry right now.” Only then did I understand. In her world, I and everything I had built could be pushed aside at any moment for her so-called first love. So, I turned around without another word and called home. “Penelope,” I said to my sister-in-law, “the wedding will proceed as scheduled. Just do me a favor and replace the bride.”

While I try on various wedding rings, my fiance, Don Demetrio Farese, who has tagged along, suddenly snatches the ring from my fingertip. "You already lost a finger, Lucia. The ring will look ugly on you. Carlotta, on the other hand, looks beautiful with a ring on her finger." Then, Demetrio fishes out a photo featuring him sinking down on one knee while sliding a ring onto Carlotta Rini's finger. My chest tightens. "What are you trying to say?" "Let Carlotta wear the wedding ring. You've already lost a finger anyway—you don’t need it." Pain slowly spreads from my chest to the rest of my body. For a moment, I almost lose my balance. The truth is, Demetrio's mortal enemy is the one who severed my finger by shooting at it. Back then, I only got shot because I had shielded Demetrio from the bullet.

Eight years of loyalty—wiped out by three days of her batting her lashes. At the bonfire, I swore the Alpha would finally mark me. Instead, I watched him fasten a sparkly little pendant around her neck. When the fire broke out, he ditched me—flames snapping at my heels. Said I could "handle myself," then played hero carrying her out. She showed up at my herb shop all smug, called me a "mutt no one wants." Then he showed up—Alpha on his knees outside my door, begging for another shot. I nodded toward my shelves. "These heal every wolf in Stormborne... except the Alpha who couldn't see what was right in front of him."

On the day of the marking ceremony, Sabrina Carter returned to the pack. My fated mate and my childhood friend both abandoned me at the same time to welcome her. "Nicole, we can redo the ceremony another day." "Sabrina needs us more right now." After saying that, they turned and walked away without a single glance back. The two men who once swore they loved me turned my most anticipated wedding into a public joke. I stood there alone while everyone pointed, whispered, and laughed. Then, Sabrina posted a photo on Instagram, showing off how she was being doted on by both the pack Alpha and Beta. Every call I made to the two men was rejected again and again. In the photo, the ring that symbolized the Luna was on her finger. And Charlie Spencer had fastened the moonstone protection necklace, the one meant for me, around her neck instead. That was the moment something inside me finally broke for good. I bought a bond severing potion. I was done holding on. I was going to sever my mate bond with Joshua Ford.

After a vicious family power struggle, I fled to a small border town in the south. I took on a new identity and found work in a flower shop. Everyone believed I was dead. Then one day, someone from the family came to the shop to order flowers for the birthday party for Roman Jackson, the head of the Jackson family. The person who arrived was my former Underboss. She stared at me in shock and demanded to know why I had not returned to the Jackson family if I was still alive. She told me that Roman had kept watch over my grave for two years and that he had attempted suicide three times in the cemetery, each time stopped by someone else. Roman was my ex-husband. He had an adopted sister, Liliana. Fifteen years ago, her parents were gunned down while covering Roman's father's escape from a rival family. After that, Liliana became Roman's most cherished sister. She tampered with my armored car. The brakes failed, and the vehicle plunged off a cliff. I broke three ribs. Roman mobilized every resource the family had and pulled me back from the brink of death. She bribed my bodyguard and laced my red wine with a neurotoxin. I lay unconscious in the villa for three days and nights. Roman sealed off the entire city, hunted down everyone involved, and made them pay in blood. She tried to kill me, and he saved me. This absurd cycle went on for three years. Until the last time. She detonated a bomb at an arms deal I was overseeing, burning seventy percent of my body. As I was lifted onto the ambulance stretcher, I clutched Roman's suit and, with the last of my strength, begged him. "Kill her, Roman. She sabotaged the deal. Those are the family rules." He crouched down, his fingers brushing my bloodstained face. His voice was calm, almost cruel. "Liliana didn't mean to. Let it go. For the sake of what her parents sacrificed for the family." In that moment, my heart to him died completely.