After Death

At our college graduation, my fiance suddenly proposed to Lillie Stewart, my best friend, in front of everyone. I became a joke in front of everyone. Right after Lillie accepted my fiance’s proposal, Lloyd Becker, heir to the biggest mafia family on the West Coast, publicly said he loved me. Lloyd was known in the mafia world for being serious and never getting involved with women. So, when he showed an interest in an orphan like me, it made the news. We got married, and for five years, he was so sweet and treated me like a princess. But one day, I accidentally overheard him talking to his friend. “Lillie is already set to become the future lady of the Gacira family. Are you really going to keep the act up with Nelly?” “If I can’t have Lillie, it doesn’t matter who I marry. As long as I’m with Nelly, Lillie can live peacefully.” He even gave Lillie the symbol of the Becker family’s lady. He helped Lillie build her career while letting me fade into the background. After five years of marriage, I finally understood. On our fifth anniversary, I pretended to die in a shooting so he could be with the woman he truly loved. But instead of being happy, Lloyd completely broke down.

The boy, George Larson, whom I once saved as a child, when he was struggling with asthma, repaid my kindness by imprisoning me for seven long years. "Luna, you're my everything. I won’t let you out of my sight," he said, his voice filled with obsession. He tied my hands and feet, keeping me bound to the bed like a helpless doll, but I did not love him; I wanted to escape. In his madness, he set fire to my family’s ancestral home. The last traces of the Sachs burned to ashes, disappearing into the wind. He said that since my home was gone, I could just live with him and that it would be my new home. However, because I refused to let him touch me, he found someone else—a girl with a beauty mark under her eye, just like mine. The girl, drunk on his affection, thought I was trying to imitate her by faking the same tear-shaped mark. In a fit of jealousy, she gouged out my eyes. My face was covered with tiny, bleeding holes, blood streaming down my body. When George came home, the girl gleefully stuffed me into a trash bag, proud of her handiwork. “George, look! I caught some trash that broke into the house!” George did not even glance at me. He just loosened his tie, his voice calm and detached. “Just toss it where trash belongs.”

Cassie is a single mother, who has spent the last 5 years building a new life and identity, hiding her daughter carefully away from her Nemesis and trying her best to stay isolated and keep her heart as far away from men as possible. Then Jack moves in and no matter how she tries, she couldn't break the bond forming between their new neighbor and her daughter, and also the attachment she was starting to feel * * * * * * One knock on the door will threaten to destroy everything Cassie has spent the past 5 years working hard for, and also threaten to take her daughter away. In order to protect her daughter, Cassie will have to agree to a Fake Marriage with Jack. However, soon they begin to forget or neglect the thin line between acting and reality

Sophia D. Ark, an ordinary college student that loves reading fiction as her only way to escape the not-so-good reality. After dying in an unfortunate accident, her soul transmigrated to a world inside of a romance novel set in medieval times. She possessed the body of a young lady from the second most powerful noble family in the Asterin empire, Elizabeth White, the villainess who is destined to be doomed and die a pitiful death. Will she be going to let the plot dictate her fate? "Now that I am living in her stead. I, Sophia, refuse to be used as a stepping stone for the protagonist's advancement! I will take control of my life this time."

Aricka Evangelista, a red-haired girl with a pair of pitch-black eyes, never knew that one day she'll be chased to death by something that kills and possesses the body of those who have seen a certain book, the Death of God. The book contains secrets of the light and the dark and according to the myth, everyone who touched and read it will be taken by an unknown force and their body will be used to also kill others who will next take possession of the book. The more she runs, the more people are affected, and the more they chase her, the more she discovers.

A 19-year-old girl, Wendy Young, invites a 20-year-old-homeless man, Lucas Kim, into her life. Spending all their time with each other, Wendy couldn’t help but fall in love with him, but with everything going down, will it all go well?

Hi, I'm Lauren Agustin. Seventeen years old and I lived by myself. My parents were killed right in front of me. Pero hindi ko nakita kung sino ang taong pumatay sa kanila dahil bulag ako. After my parents' death, my eyes miraculously healed. However, I started to have a vision of people's death. And then I met Luke. A guy whose death was also seen in my vision. I told him about my vision of his death but he didn't believe me. Although Luke mistook me as a crazy girl, I still tried every possible way to help him to avoid his death. Luke didn't die because of me, and later on, we developed a special feeling for each other although we sometimes bickered because he doesn't believe in me. Ginamit ko ang kakayahang ito para bigyan ng babala at mailigtas ang taong makikita ko sa aking pangitain na siyang susunod na mamamatay. Ngunit sino nga bang tao ang maniniwala sa aking mga sinasabi na hindi ako pag-iisipang nababaliw? How did I have this mysterious ability? And will I be able to find my parents' real murderer?

My mom and dad died heroically in a fire rescue, trying to protect an orphan. Afterward, my brother brought the orphan, Audrey, home. To make her smile, he'd throw away photos of me and our parents. He even kicked me out in front of everyone. For Audrey's coming-of-age celebration, he took her to Cranburn—the place I'd always dreamed of going. In his eyes, I had nowhere else to go. He believed that once I realized I was wrong, I'd come back on my own. But what he didn't know was—I had joined an overseas rescue team. This might be the last time we ever see each other.

Maganda ang mundo, ngunit malupit din ito. Sa mundo ng Gaia, mayroong apat na rehiyon. Iyon ay ang Normous, Defracia, Bandalia Cifalia, at Isla ng Anino. Sa bawat rehiyon ay mayroong Death Judge, ang pag-asa ng bayan, ngunit ang Rehiyon ng Normous lamang ang walang Death Judge at ang umako sa posisyon nito ay ang emperor mismo. *~* Si Maximaze Lativitus Park ay isang mamamayan ng Normous at nasa pinakamababang-antas lamang ng sibilisasyon sa rehiyon. Sa ibang salita, siya ay isang alipin ng nakatataas. Nang siya ay hindi pa ipinapanganak ay nawalan na ito ng ama dahil sa kabayanihang ginawa. Nang dumating ang kaibigan ng kaniyang magulang, nagbago ang kaniyang buhay. Siyaʼy binigyan ng pagkakataon na makapag-aral at makalaya sa pagkakaalipin, ngunit sa isang kondisyon. Kailangan niyang maging isang kandidato sa paglalakbay at maging Death Judge ng Normous sapagkat ang emperor ay nanghihina na. Ang tahimik niyang buhay kasama ang kaniyang ina ay naging magulo—mas malala sa pagkakaalipin. Marami siyang inaasahan sa mundo ngunit nang kaniyang malaman ang katotohanan, ang kaniyang pangarap ay nawasak sa pira-piraso. Sa araw na iyon, nakatanggap siya ng isang masamang paalala.

Lumatannya terasa manis. Pelukannya seakan melindungi. Laura bergidik dalam pelukan laki-laki yang bahkan baru dikenalnya dalam hitungan bulan. Seakan ia telah terjebak dalam permainannya sendiri. "Kenapa kamu menciumku?" tanya laki-laki itu. "Entahlah," jawab Laura lirih. "Dan kenapa kamu malah membalas ciumanku itu?” Laki-laki itu berpikir sejenak sembari menatap manik mata di depannya. "Aku hanya mengikuti naluri, La. Dan naluriku menginginkannya lebih.” Tidak ada yang tahu skenario apa yang sebenarnya Laura dan Abraham persiapkan. Awalnya mereka menolak dijodohkan, tapi endingnya mereka berdua malah menyepakatinya. Mereka akhirnya menikah. Tanpa debat. Juga tanpa paksaan. Tapi bagaimana jika perbedaan mencolok keduanya malah membuat mereka tanpa sadar saling bergantung satu sama lain? Ketika masa lalu Abraham hadir kembali dan membutuhkan sebuah pertanggungjawaban, Laura dihadapkan pada suatu pilihan yang sulit. Mempertahankan atau melepaskan?