A More Perfect Union Book

"Aku bukan pelakor, tapi sebutan itu disematkan padaku karena ulah mantan istri Anugrah." Dokter Bella menjalin hubungan serius dengan Anugrah setelah pria itu resmi berstatus duda, namun siapa yang menyangka, hubungan tersebut menjadi awal kehancuran hidup dan karirnya. Saat masih menjalin kisah asmara dengan Direktur Rumah Sakit Ibu dan Anak itu, Bella terus diteror mantan istri Anugrah, hingga akhirnya dia menyerah dan meninggalkan sang Direktur. Lama tak mendengar kabar dari Anugrah, ternyata pria itu kembali menjalani rumah tangga dengan mantan istrinya. *** Berjumpa kembali setelah dua belas tahun berpisah, menjadi pertemuan paling mendebarkan bagi Bella dan Anugrah, yang masih menyimpan perasaan cinta satu sama lain. "Dua belas tahun aku mencari keberadaanmu. Aku pikir kita sudah benar-benar berakhir. Ternyata, ada ikatan yang tidak akan pernah bisa dihapus oleh apapun." Anugrah menatap wajah Bella, lekat. Kedua manik matanya berkaca-kaca, berharap bisa memeluk wanita cantik itu seperti dulu. "Bastian hadir bukan karena kesalahan, tapi keinginan kita berdua. Kamu ingatkan ... berulang kali aku mengatakan, aku akan menikahimu."

He is supposed to be my best friend—at least I have been seeing him as one—doing a lot of things with him together. We go to school together, share the same hobbies, and love the same sports. He is my day one, my buddy. Up until after the summer vacation when we started a new life in the same college as freshmen. That is when I discover that I have developed a soft spot for him, which accounts for the way I missed him during the summer vacation. I have never missed Liam like that. I mean, I do miss him but not compared to last summer. I wanted him around me and his image occupied my mind's eye. Starting college with a crush on my best friend is not an ideal way to begin the academic year. No matter how I try to suppress it by going on dates and accepting relationship proposals from guys, instead of it going away, it doubles. Worse still, he sees me as his buddy. He has never looked at me the way he looks at other girls. I know I am a bit of a tomboy. My other friends tell me that my dress sense is a bit masculine. I try changing my fashion sense but to no avail. Sadly, all I am to Liam is his day one bestie and buddy. I do not want to tell him about the feelings I have because I do not want to put our friendship in jeopardy. I had already given up hope Until the dare at one of my other friend's parties _ Evie. The dare for Liam to kiss me. The kiss opens another chapter; I would never have believed in my entire life to be possible—Liam actually likes me!

Saat hari pernikahan dan hendak melaksanakan ijab kabul, Luna malah dikhianati oleh calon suaminya, yaitu Agam. Pria itu terang-terangan menggandeng sahabatnya sendiri dengan begitu mesra. Harusnya, saat itu menjadikan hari yang sakral dan paling bahagia untuk Luna. Akhirnya, keduanya gagal untuk melanjutkan pernikahan. Agam lebih memilih sahabatnya daripada Luna. Keluarga masing-masing pun merasa malu. Lantas, di tengah rasa sakit hati dan terpuruk karena cinta, Luna malah bertemu dengan seorang pria tampan nan manis. Akankah Luna bisa menerima cinta pria itu dan mampu membuka lembaran baru bersamanya?

“Kita akan menikah hanya dalam enam bulan.” Hal pertama yang diucapkan oleh Retta setelah menikah. “Jika kamu jatuh cinta sebelum enam bulan berarti semua perjanjian batal?” tanya Rylan menyeringai. “Jangan mimpi. Kamu bukan pria yang berada di dalam daftarku!” jawab Retta tegas. “Aku memang tidak perlu masuk daftarmu. Karena aku sudah resmi menjadi suamimu melalui jalur khusus.” Rylan tersenyum meledek. Sehari sebelum hari pernikahan Retta harus mendapati kenyataan jika kekasihnya adalah pria beristri. Obsesinya pada pria yang lebih dewasa membuatnya tidak menyadari jika yang akan menikahinya adalah suami orang. Undangan sudah disebar tidak mungkin dibatalkan. Hal itu pasti akan membuat malu keluarganya. Sang papa pun memutuskan mencari calon pengantin pria untuk Retta. Hingga menjadikan Rylan sebagai kandidat pas untuk menjadi menantunya. Retta tidak mau, karena Rylan terlalu muda untuk menjadi suaminya. Namun, sang papa memaksa. Karena ini adalah konsekuensi yang harus diterima Retta. Akankah Retta bisa menjalani pernikahan ini?

Six years have passed since she experienced the ordeal that changed her life forever and now, Ayla is back. She is out to take revenge on her father who abandoned her, stepsister and stepmother who turned her life upside down and took everything from her, and her boyfriend who abandoned her and chose her stepsister instead. She aims to achieve all she could not achieve and take back everything that belongs to her late mother. Unfortunately, her stepsister has a lot of schemes and will stop at nothing till she sees Ayla completely broken. Fate on the other hand has something different in store for Ayla as she meets the wealthy and popular business tycoon, Alexander Michaelson, and signs up to be his wife for the next six months. Will fate find them or will they forever be stranger, fighting their own battles?

Aphrodite Reid, having a name after a Greek Goddess of beauty and love, doesn't exactly make her one of the "it" crowd at school. She's the total opposite of her name, ugly and lonely. After her parents died in a car accident as a child, she tended to hide inside her little box and let people she cared about out of her life. She rather not deal with others who would soon hurt her than she already is. She outcast herself from her siblings and others. When Logan Wolfe, the boy next door, started to break down her wall Aphrodite by talking to her, the last thing she needed was an Adonis-looking god living next to her craving attention. Logan and his brothers moved to Long Beach, California, to transfer their family business and attend a new school, and he got all the attention he needed except for one. Now, Logan badly wants only the beautiful raven-haired goddess with luscious curves. No one can stand between Logan and the girl who gives him off just with her sharp tongue. He would have to break down the four walls that barricade Aphrodite. Whatever it takes for him to tear it down, he will do it, even by force.

Megan Corteza fell in love with the school’s football quarterback, Ashton Pritzgold. She has a simple beauty, but she is the number one all over senior high school students, but she lacked with one thing, and that is money which matters in their school to become famous that is why she was never on Ashton’s radar. Ashton Priztgold is the most popular guy on campus because he got it all, intelligent, hot, handsome, and the football prodigy, and most of all, son of the filthy rich business tycoon in the country. Megan always kept away from the rich, but one day she was shocked when Ashton approached her, and she became the envy of all the girls on campus, and her once peaceful life became chaotic because of him. For Ashton, Megan was way out of his league because hot cheerleaders and rich girls will always chase him around, but he was on a mission to know her and couldn’t stop himself from falling in love with her. And he didn’t foresee the big mistake he had made will hurt her whole being and shattered not only her heart but her entire future. Megan was broken-hearted and left no choice but to left her home after her high school graduation and promised herself never to forgive Ashton for what he had done to her. Ashton is now the CEO of Pritzgold International Shipping Lines, Incorporated. After eight years, he meets Megan again, and he realized he was such a fool for hurting her because, after so many years, he realized Megan was still his one great love.

(This book is a three part series) "She looks exactly like me but we're very different." Gabriella. "You're always gonna be beneath me no matter how hard you try." Gabrielle. Twin sisters, Gabriella and Gabrielle may look alike but they are definitely complete opposites. Gabrielle, the proud, popular and overly ambitious sister, who loves to be the center of attention and would go to any length to get whatever she wants, without any care of the consequences. Gabriella, as opposed to her twin sister is the quiet one, the gentle one and the smart one and she unlike her sister is not overly ambitious or power and fame hungry. Liam Helton, son of famous fashion designers in New York bumps into both sisters on the same day but on different occasions but falls in love with one and detests the other.

Her life is full of lies, have many hidden secrets and delusions, way too far from a simple and ordinary life. It all started with the accident that happened to her mom and all the blame was pointed to her. That event changed her life. Everyone around her became hypocritical, everyone had a hidden secret and intentions. But he came into her life and helped her leave the world she's been suffering for a long time, a world that is full of lies. She fell in love with him, but destiny is too playful. When he confessed his feelings to her, Hayacinth rejected him, because for her, a love is not enough to heal a wounded past and a broken soul. Her tears fell down when the person she loves dropped the line that she doesn't want to let others know, that 'kahit magsinungaling ang bibig mo, nagpapakatotoo pa rin ang mga mata'. It marked her mind and her soul. She didn't know what to do at those times because of being hurt, of being not enough and not worthy. She was too afraid to gamble when it comes to the word 'love'. What she wanted to do in those time is to know the truth, to unveil every hidden secret and find the every page of A Book of Lies.

Having her life upside down, Lily Peters being adopted by two amazing dads when she was a baby is the best of both worlds. She didn't care what other people thought. She has always loved her family. But, her mind was sometimes adrift, and she would wonder why anyone like her parents would give her up. After eighteen years, things became complicated when her grandparents from India suddenly showed up at her doorsteps and announced her engagement. Things got crazier, and the road to her future had turmoil when her best friend's grandfather announced her engagement to none other than the boy who always got away...Liam Wolfe. Liam and his brothers would be flocked by women all the time, and they wanted them so bad that they would do anything. But, since he and his brothers moved to the beautiful city of Long Beach, it would just be healthy living in a different town. Plenty of women would go down on their knees before an introduction. That all changed when he first gazed at large beautiful chocolate-brown eyes, hair like the night, and inky and sun-kissed skin that could be too delicate to touch. Liam had never believed in fairy tales until meeting Lily changed his mind and found his princess. Obstacles got in the way between Liam and Lily, including his dark past. He did not want her to have become of that past. But pretending to be engaged to the girl that stirred inside his pants can be challenging. When his past followed him, Liam had no choice but to keep Lily away from him if hurting her would keep her safe. Liam would have to become a black knight to protect his Indian princess.