52 Book Club 2025: #6 - Genre One: Set In Spring

Tiga hari sebelum pernikahannya, Violet dihadapkan fakta jika kekasihnya berselingkuh. Tapi dia tak sudi pernikahannya gagal hanya karena itu. Adalah Vier, laki-laki yang dijadikan tumbal oleh Violet untuk mengganti posisi calon suaminya. Vier dengan tegas menolak karena dia sudah memiliki kekasih. Violet bersikeras memaksa agar dia bisa menyelamatkan nama baik keluarganya. Kegagalannya menikah pasti akan menjadi tombak bagi orang-orang yang tidak menyukainya untuk menyerang. Violet tidak bersedia untuk kalah. “Hanya enam bulan, Vier. Setelah itu saya sendiri yang akan menceraikanmu.” Maka hitam di atas putih sebagai perjanjian di antara keduanya menjadikan tanda jadi untuk menutup masalah Violet. ***

Rated SPG | R-18 | Mature Content Jerusalem McBride has everything the world could ever envy — fame, wealth, and a face that graces international billboards. But behind the glamour lies a man haunted by three things: misery, hatred, and revenge. Once part of Foedus Corp., a secretive brotherhood led by Lev Petrov, Jeru found not only power but a family he never had. Yet even brotherhood couldn’t fill the emptiness left by the people who shattered his life — the Esquivels. Now, his only mission is vengeance. And his plan begins with Damira Esquivel, the sole daughter and precious weakness of the man he despises most. But revenge takes an unexpected turn when Patrice Gertrude Dimagiba — the woman who has always stood in his way — becomes the one person capable of breaking down his walls. As secrets unravel and hearts collide, Jeru must decide: Will he follow the darkness that has consumed him for years… or surrender to the love that threatens to save him?

Zira Deverauxdoro was left and was abandon at St. Maria hospital not long after she was born. After that she's been to one foster home to another and each one, she felt alone like there was a part of her missing to keep her from being whole. When she turned 10 years old, she was finally adopted by Ahriman Radamés, one of the riches CEO. There was always something strange about her adopted father, but when she found out that he wasn't human by accident and that he had plans with her that's when she left. Even though she was only sixteen, she had a great common sense and a good amount of money she stashed away of her adopted parents. She's been on her own for 2 years and knows she can never trust or count on others. She can never stay in one place for too long fearing that Ahriman Radamés would find her. She lived day by day in one hotel after another. Driving to a different state every few days. Until one day she rides into a small town in Vermont and runs into a guy name Seth while hustling on a pool table in a bar that happens to be run by vampires.

She's willing to sacrifice everything for her father's freedom and safety. Kaya niyang suungin ang kahit na anong pagsubok upang maging masaya ang ama kahit ang kapalit niyon ay pagbaba ng kanyang pagkababae. Funny, but she's willing to be a whore para maging malaya ang ama. Ibenta man ang sarili sa kahit na sinong lalaki ay kaya niyang gawin. Her father committed a crime, it was self-defense, pero sa tulad nilang mahirap ay walang maniniwala sa bagay na iyon. Kaya naman ibeninta niya ang sarili sa isang abogadong nangakong tutulungan siya sa kaso ng ama. Handa siyang sikmurain na ipagamit ang katawan para sa kapalit nitong tulong, ngunit dahil sa sariling katangahan ay namali siya ng taong pinagbigyan ng sarili. Nakipagnaig siya sa estranghero na akala niya ay ang attorney. Ang tanging baraha niya para sa kalayaan ng ama ay naglaho na parang bula. Paano na niya maililigtas ang ama gayong ang kanyang kaberhinan ay wala na? And damn her for the second time, Six Castillion is the name of the guy na siya ring pinsan ng amo niya.

My husband, Malcolm Thorpe, has low sperm motility. After 33 rounds of IVF, I finally got pregnant. On delivery day, I start hemorrhaging, and the medical team calls for an emergency C-section. Malcolm signs the consent form, then rushes straight back to his childhood sweetheart's birthday party. But instead of starting the C-section, the surgeon says, "Ms. Jacobson, the electronic medical record lists you as single. This consent form isn't valid." I stop breathing for a beat. The happy marriage I believe in turns out to be a sham. Later, Mom and Dad rush in and sign the consent for me. But by then, the baby is gone. The asphyxia lasted too long. After surgery, I scrawl my name on the cremation consent with shaking hands, then dial a number without thinking. "Samuel, are you free now? Meet me in front of City Hall."

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On my fifteenth birthday, I begged my mom to teach me how to make a cream cake from scratch. We only had cream at home. No flour. So we went out to buy some. When we came back, we didn't walk into a birthday surprise. We walked in on my father pressing a strange she-wolf down onto the dining table. Cream was smeared all over her bare body. That night ended with my parents signing the Mating Dissolution Agreement. From that day on, cake became my nightmare, a taboo I could never touch. The night I mated with Alpha Kaelen of the Shadow Pack, amidst the pain and pleasure of his marking bite, I whispered in his ear. "Honey, if you ever want to end our mating, just bring me a cake." He frowned, his eyes burning with possessiveness, and kissed the words away. "Don't talk nonsense, Seraphina. You are my fated mate. How could I ever let you go?" Later, on his birthday, his intern secretary Elena ordered a three-tier luxury cake. Kaelen went into a rage, throwing both the cake and the intern out the front door. Back then, I was moved, even telling him not to be so harsh on a low-ranking wolf for my sake. But six months later, Elena had been promoted to Kaelen's personal assistant. On my birthday, she walked into my laboratory, swinging her hips, holding a burnt, homemade cake. I called Kaelen, asking him to remove the provocative item. On the other end of the line,his tone was casual. "Elena put her heart into making that for you. It would be cruel to throw it away. Be a good girl, don't be so sensitive. Have the grace of a Luna." The phone slipped from my hand. It turned out my mother wasn't wrong. Cake really is best served with a side of rejection papers.

I hated my husband most in the moment he died for me, swallowed by the flames. Right before he took his last breath, he tore our marriage certificate in half, his eyes burning red. "If there's another life," he said, "I'd rather we never met." My whole body went rigid. Only then did I understand—he blamed me. Ten years ago, his childhood sweetheart and her family had been exiled. She had begged him for help. But that day, he'd gone with me on a trip and missed the chance to save her. And for ten long years, he held that grudge against me. After my husband's death, the world turned on me. Even my in-laws, who had always cared for me, looked at me with pure disgust. "If not for you, Russ wouldn't be dead. We wish you'd never been born!" I couldn't bear it anymore. I ended my life. I never expected that when I opened my eyes again, I would be back on the day Russ Williams came to propose. This time, I would do exactly as he wished. I would give everyone what they wanted.

Zara Thomas is 23, broke, exhausted, and desperate. A waitress clinging to dead-end shifts and shattered dreams, her world collapses further when her mother is diagnosed with cancer.and the bills are more than she could ever afford. Out of options, out of time, and out of hope, Zara does the unthinkable: she sells one night of herself for money. She walks into a luxury hotel suite expecting shame. she meets Alexander Sterling a dangerously magnetic billionaire who strips her down with his eyes and undoes her with a single touch. One night. No names. No emotions. Just survival. Until fate twists cruelly. A week later, she lands a dream job… as his personal secretary. He’s cold, commanding, and acts like she’s invisible. But his gaze lingers. His touch remembers. And so does hers. What begins as tension spirals into a relationship laced with passion, pain, and everything neither of them expected. But just as Zara starts to believe in something more, a ghost from his past returns, lines blur between duty, desire, and something deeper, past secrets begin to surface, and one devastating truth could change everything. Will love be enough to rebuild the empire they lost or will the weight of their past destroy everything they almost had?

Ang masayang pagsasama ng mag-asawang Celeste at Elijah ay nabahiran ng pagdududa nang maramdaman ni Elijah na tila niloloko siya ni Celeste. Pagdududa na nauwi upang sumiping siya ng isang gabi kay Selena na isang estranghera. Ngunit nagsisi si Elijah nang malaman niya na mali siya ng hinala kay Celeste. Inakala ni Elijah na tapos na ang kabanata ng buhay niya kay Selena dahil one night stand lamang ang nangyari sa kanilang dalawa. Ngunit ganoon na lamang ang gulat niya nang malaman niya na lumipat si Selena ng bahay na malapit sa bahay nilang mag-asawa. Doon na nagsimula ang pamba-blackmail ni Selena upang makuha ang gusto nito sa kaniya. Si Elijah nga lang ba ang pakay ni Selena o meron pa siyang mas malalim na dahilan kaya nais niyang masira ang pagmamahalan nina Celeste at Elijah?