Adrift America In 100 Charts

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK ⚠️ Si Maya ay isang bilanggo sa mansion ng mga Gustin dahil sa malaking pagkakautang. Tanggap niya ang kapalaran niya na habang buhay magbayad ng pagkakautang sa mga ito kapalit ng kanyang paninilbihan... Isa lang ang hiling niya, iyon ang bumalik ang nanay niya na bigla nalang siyang iniwan sampong taon na ang nakakaraan. Nang bumalik si Hannah galing sa America, ang apo ng mga Gustin ay agad na ipinagkasundo ito sa isang mayamang binata na si Tyler Montemayor; Ngunit nagmatigas si Hannah. Sa takot ng mga Gustin na baka i-pull-out ng binata ang investment nito sa kanilang kumpanya ay naisip nilang si Maya ang ipakasal kay Tyler dala ang kanilang apelido. Walang nagawa si Maya kundi ang pumayag na ma-ikasal sa mayamang binata. Hinanda niya ang sarili na masaktan at pagmalupitan ng mayamang binata ngunit hindi iyon ang nangyari... "Araw-araw kitang mamahalin, Maya.” Katagang sinabi ni Tyler na labis n'yang ikinagulat. Mapanindigan kaya ni Tyler ang pangako gayong maraming tutol at hadlang sa pag iibigan nilang dalawa? O sa bandang huli ay magkakahiwalay din sila?

Setelah lulus dari program pelatihan sosialita, adikku bersumpah akan menikah dengan orang kaya. Demi merekayasa pertemuan yang tidak disengajakan, dia mengemudikan mobil baruku dan ingin menabrak bagian belakang mobil Hayden Stewart, seorang sosok berpengaruh di komunitas kalangan atas Kota Gatrea. Aku menginjak rem tepat waktu dan memberitahunya bahwa anggota Keluarga Stewart tidaklah bodoh. Keluarga kami juga tidak mungkin sanggup membayar ganti rugi mobil Hayden. Setelahnya, Hayden mengadakan resepsi pernikahan mewah nan megah yang menggemparkan seluruh negeri. Adikku merasa sangat cemburu dan mengatakan bahwa jika aku tidak mencegahnya waktu itu, dia pasti bisa menjadi pengantin Hayden. Berhubung menaruh dendam terhadapku, dia pun menabrakku dan membiarkanku mati.  Pada saat aku membuka mata lagi, aku sedang duduk di kursi penumpang depan. Adikku tersenyum penuh percaya diri sambil menatap lekat-lekat mobil mewah di depan. “Begitu melihatku, Hayden pasti akan sepenuhnya terpesona. Nanti, aku nggak usah kemudikan mobil bobrok ini lagi.” Kali ini, aku tidak mencegahnya. Dia pun menginjak gas dan menabrak mobil sport bernilai 100 miliar itu.

To Rosetta, life was way too short to be lived within strict rules. The night before she turned 18, Rosetta signed up to be a one-time stripper at a private bar, and she ends up in the bed of a mysterious stranger who takes her to heaven and back. The following morning, he leaves before she awakens, making her to wonder if he was ever real. When her mother remarries for the third time, Rosetta is forced to relocate to Los Angeles with her, and her world falls apart when she realizes that her mother's new husband is the same man she had met weeks earlier at the club. Damon Brooks is her latest stepfather! Now, she has to fight her growing feelings for the only man who makes her mother happy, and risk losing a chance with him. Does it get better or worse when she finds out that Damon is falling, even harder for her, right under the nose of her mother? What happens when her step father gives her 100 days to enjoy their dirty little game, after which everything must end. Can Rosette handle the pain of what happens after? There's only one way to find out. Read this book, Now!

Setelah mendaki sampai ke puncak gunung, aku mengalami hipotermia. Kedua teman masa kecilku yang pernah bersumpah untuk melindungiku dengan nyawa mereka malah sama sekali tidak melirikku. Yang satu sibuk mengeluarkan semua pakaian untuk membungkus tubuh Lucia, yang satu lagi sibuk menggunakan tubuhnya untuk menghangatkan Lucia. Aku kedinginan sampai penyakit jantungku kambuh. Ketika aku memohon pada mereka untuk menolongku, mereka malah langsung murka. “Chloe Winata! Kenapa kamu masih saja cemburu di saat-saat seperti ini! Kalau dingin, ya lari beberapa putaran sana!” “Setelah pulang nanti, kami akan belikan kamu 100 jaket bulu. Tapi sekarang, kamu nggak boleh rebutan sama Lulu!” Untungnya, ketika tim penyelamat tiba, aku berhasil diselamatkan meskipun nyawaku sudah di ujung tanduk. Selama seminggu aku diopname di rumah sakit, mereka tidak datang menjengukku. Dari postingan sosial media, aku baru tahu bahwa mereka sibuk merayakan pesta ulang tahun Lucia. Persahabatan belasan tahun ini sama sekali tidak bisa dibandingkan dengan senyuman seorang putri sopir. Aku pun menelepon ayahku. “Ayah, aku bersedia nikah sama putra Keluarga Januar.”

My sister, Gabriella Rutherfurd, is the richest female CEO in Brightshire. Her male secretary, Freddie Morgan, mentions that he wants to see a real-life version of the Squid Game, so she builds the venue and spends 100 million dollars to make it happen. The lure of a gigantic cash prize draws in countless desperate souls. Even the bodyguards responsible for protecting my brother-in-law, Cyril Harding, abandon their posts to participate. Cyril has no choice but to go to the hospital without the bodyguards for his medical appointment, but he is abducted halfway there. In my previous life, I found Gabriella and asked her to stop the game and send people to rescue Cyril. After hesitating, Gabriella agreed. She stopped the game and managed to save Cyril just in time. But the few players who had made it to the final round were furious that the game was canceled. To vent their rage, they took Freddie and beat him to death. Gabriella acted like it had nothing to do with me. Yet, on the day Freddie was buried, she ordered her men to beat me up. When I open my eyes again, I am back to the day that Cyril was abducted. This time, Gabriella gets what she wants, and the Squid Game is held as planned. By the final round, a masked man is dragged onto the high platform. Freddie announces that whoever slices the man's head off will win the 100-million-dollar prize. When Cyril's head rolls to Gabriella's feet, she finally snaps.

Avery Whitney was just your average girl trying to blend in. Her crush, Preston Adams, says otherwise. He sees her as an annoying nobody who doesn't deserve to exist in this world to the point he humiliates her in front of the whole student body. She felt utterly heartbroken so with that she vowed to herself that someday, he will get what he deserves. Four years later, she was now the Revenge Artist. She knows everybody's deepest darkest secret and uses it as an advantage for people who seek her help with 100% paybacks-a-bitch guaranteed. For payment, she doesn't need anything. Just the soaring feeling of accomplishment that she gets after doing the deed. The day came when luck was on her side. She caught Preston making out with the young hot Chemistry teacher, Ms. Brooks. Preston however was not pleased since he remembered what he did to Avery four years ago. She uses this to her advantage as blackmail so if Preston won't do any of her bidding, word will leak out about his indiscretion and that won't do any good for him. He will lose his popularity, his long time girlfriend Deana, his chance for football scholarship and worse, expelled. Little did she know that the more time she spent with Preston, the fluttering feeling she had for him would return.

Holden Temple, future Alpha of Ghost Pack, has dedicated his academic career in Biochemistry to proving the Goddess isn't real and werewolves are simply a product of evolution, just like normal humans. Until the mate bond destroyed his research by overriding his chemical cocktail. Will he give in to this powerful bond? Will the bond be enough to change his worldview? And will it be enough to forgive his mate's transgressions? Willow Reid was raised to resent the Ghost Pack Alpha for not following tradition and bypassing her father, the rightful heir from an impeccable lineage, as pack Beta. Even though she loves her father and is upset that he didn't get his birthright, their relationship starts showing cracks when she accepts the opportunity to go back to Ghost Pack territory to attend college. She agrees to provide her father with intel about the pack for his plan of forcing his way into the Beta position, even though shee isn't 100% on board with it. She soon finds out she's mated to the future Alpha, and spending time in the presence of other werewolves makes her question what she was raised to believe. Will she choose to turn her back on her family, or to turn her back on her mate? Would her mate even be able to accept her if he knew she had already betrayed him even before they met?

Eliza Ward does not fall through time. Time bends toward her. Pulled from the present into Revolutionary America, Eliza becomes trapped in a landscape where history repeats unevenly, battles restart with variations, and memory functions as both anchor and weapon. She is not a chosen heroine, but a constant: a woman whose awareness destabilizes the moment itself. She meets Mercy Hale, a midwife and witch who understands time as a negotiation rather than a force to command. Mercy aids Eliza’s survival while refusing the role of savior, having already learned the cost of standing too close to history’s center. During a looping battle, Eliza saves Thomas Reed, a Continental soldier who does not shift when time does. Thomas is an anchor: steady, observant, unchanged across iterations. Their bond deepens in an almost-normal village where time briefly behaves. Eliza’s intervention triggers time’s response. Rather than immediate destruction, time collects interest. Mercy bargains to spare Eliza and Thomas, sacrificing her own future to stabilize the present. Time extracts payment from Eliza as well, stripping away her voice, the very tool she uses to name and hold moments in place. Silenced and unmoored, Eliza is violently displaced back into the original battle. Unable to anchor the moment, she watches Thomas die in the version of history that was always waiting beneath her defiance. Told in rotating perspectives between Eliza, Thomas, and Mercy, The Hours That Refused to Behave is a lyrical time-travel novel about revolution, restraint, and consequence, asking not whether history can be changed, but who pays when it is.

"Royce Devereaux isn’t your average hot professor. He has a lot of rules in his professional and personal life. He keeps both worlds separated. He has to. He’s somewhat of a public figure—and yes, he’s made enemies climbing to the top. Being a world-famous paleontology professor doesn’t mix well with his romantic life. He likes his sex rough, and a whole lot of naughty. Which means his students are 100% off limits.One problem. His new graduate student assistant, Kenzie. She looks at him like a kid looks at birthday cake, and he doesn’t like it. Except, he does. He likes it too much. She’s feisty and smart—which only makes him want to tie her up and master her body. And her buttoned-up librarian look—it makes him want to strip her naked…slowly. He has to find a way to ignore her. It’s only one semester. Right?But when an enemy decides to use Kenzie to force his hand, Royce has no choice but to keep her close. Very, very close. His two worlds have just collided. He just hopes he can let her go once the danger is over…The Darkest Hour is created by Lauren Smith, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author."

Sebuah legenda mengatakan bahwa akan datang sosok yang menjadi pemimpin bagi mereka. Pemimpin yang membawa prinsip jujur, adil, dan tegas. Dan berdasarkan legenda, sosok tersebut memang sengaja disembunyikan. Namun, tanda - tanda kedatangannya adalah munculnya bencana yang beruntun. Polemik berkepanjangan hingga menjadikan warga yang lemah terkena imbasnya. Terdapat suatu negara yang bercita - cita menjadi negara yang maju setelah 100 tahun kemerdekaannya. Herrscher yang berasal dari masa depan, mencoba kembali ke masa 10 tahun yang lalu dan menyaksikan bahwa apa yang dicita - citakan negara tersebut justru jauh dari ekspetasi. Negaranya tertinggal. Dengan berpegang pada legenda tersebut, Herrscher berupaya mencari dia yang disembunyikan. Bersama entitas yang selalu bersamanya, Herrscher menjelajahi waktu untuk memperbaiki kondisi negaranya agar sesuai dengan keinginannya. Hal ini diketahui oleh Dagaz, pria dari masa lalu yang menulis kisah tentang Herrscher. Dagaz berupaya mencegah keinginan Herrscher. Karena bila Herrscher memaksa kedatangan dia yang disembunyikan, maka bencana dan polemik berkepanjangan akan datang menimpa negara itu. Apakah Herrscher berhasil mendatangkan dia yang disembunyikan dan menjadikan negara tersebut maju? Ataukah Dagaz yang justru berhasil menggagalkan Herrscher demi tidak terjadinya bencana dan polemik di negara tersebut?