Afro Asian Literature Examples Novels & Stories

I married the man I believed was perfect, but the illusion shattered. His betrayal came with an affair and when I confronted him, he called me barren and delusional. In my need for revenge, I had a one night stand with a mysterious man and he became my little obsession. Aria Nicole is known as the "queen of romance," a New-York best-selling marriage author celebrated for her wisdom on love and relationships. But behind closed doors, her own four-year marriage is void of passion, and the spark she writes about feels like a lie. On her fourth wedding anniversary, Aria’s carefully crafted world crumbles when she catches her husband in bed with his secretary. Heartbroken and desperate for escape, she finds herself at a nightclub. What begins as a night of sadness ends in unexpected turns, a one-night stand with a mysterious man. He became her little addiction but what happened when her family is strongly against their relationship and she is forced to chose.

แม้จะเจ็บมาหลายครั้ง ผิดหวังมาหลายหน แต่ฉันก็ยังเชื่อว่ารักแท้มีอยู่จริง จะทำไงได้ล่ะ คนนี้ก็หล่อ คนนั้นก็โดนใจนี่นา>⁠.⁠< คาริสา: คุณใต้หล้าหน้าตาคุ้นๆนะคะ หน้าเหมือนเนื้อคู่หนูเลย ใต้หล้า: ...

"Aku hanya ingin membantu ... aku tidak punya niat buruk." "Aku tetap tidak percaya padamu!" Saat Yasmin tak lagi punya alasan untuk hidup, dua bayi kembar yang kelaparan memberinya harapan. Sayangnya, Ayah mereka, Barra Alexander Armend, menganggap Yasmin sebagai ancaman, bukan penyelamat. Haruskah Yasmin pergi dan kembali kehilangan? Atau bertahan, meskipun kembali disakiti?

VOWS WRITTEN IN SILENCE He never signed the divorce papers. She never stopped dreaming about the night he destroyed her. Raiyan Al Mansoor built an empire, raised their daughter alone, and practiced hating Zoya Al Fayez every morning for eight hundred days. Zoya became the most feared barrister in the country, raised their other daughter alone, and never told anyone his name still lived in her chest like something that refused to heal. They were separated by lies neither of them knew were lies. By forgeries. By silence. By seven words he said that he cannot take back. Now she is prosecuting his family. Now they are in the same city. The same courtroom. The same war. And everything they buried is about to surface. Including the children. Including the truth. Including the fact that you cannot hate someone this specifically unless you never stopped loving them.

Julian’s life is already a nightmare. He was just brutally dumped by his wealthy, arrogant boyfriend, Chase Sterling. To make matters worse, Julian’s twin sister runs away on the morning of her arranged marriage to Chase’s terrifying, billionaire father—the ruthless patriarch of the city's top law firm, Victor Sterling. Knowing Victor will destroy their family if the bride doesn't show up, Julian makes a desperate, suicidal decision. With his slender build and identical face, Julian puts on the wedding dress, the heavy veil, and walks down the aisle to marry his ex-boyfriend's father. Julian thinks he just has to survive the wedding night and find a way to annul the marriage later. But he severely underestimates the man he just married. When the bedroom door locks, Victor doesn't even bother lifting the veil. Instead, he unbuckles his belt and whispers, "Did you really think a piece of lace could hide you from me, Julian?" Victor knew it was Julian the entire time. In fact, Victor secretly orchestrated the sister's disappearance just to force Julian into his bed. Now, Julian is trapped in a strict, BDSM-laced contract marriage where his terrifying new husband will train him to be a lethal lawyer by day, and a perfectly disciplined boy by night.

Mereka bukan saudara kandung. Hanya terikat oleh pernikahan orang tua mereka. Selama bertahun-tahun, Madeline Adinata dan Marcus Pratama Putra hidup di bawah satu atap tanpa pernah benar-benar saling berbicara. Bagi Madeline, kakak tirinya itu hanya sosok asing yang dingin dan… berbeda. Hingga malam itu terjadi. Malam ketika alkohol menghapus batasan. Malam ketika sebuah kesalahan mengikat mereka dalam rahasia gelap yang tak seharusnya ada. Marcus selalu yakin dirinya gay. Selalu. Sampai ciuman itu membuatnya ragu pada segalanya. Apakah ia hanya tersesat? Atau sebenarnya, hatinya selama ini menunggu seseorang yang tak pernah ia bayangkan—adik tirinya sendiri? Sejak malam itu, Madeline merasa diawasi. Kakaknya mulai hadir di setiap ruang hidupnya. Cemburu. Menuntut. Menjadi bayangan yang tak bisa ia hindari. Mereka tahu hubungan ini salah. Mereka tahu dunia tidak akan pernah menerima. Tapi bagaimana jika satu kesalahan justru menjadi sesuatu yang tak bisa mereka lepaskan? WARNING 21+ MATURE

Maya Collin’s thought the hardest part of divorce was signing the papers. She was wrong. Six years after ending her marriage to Ethan Harrington, Maya has rebuilt her life from the ground up. Raised by a hardworking single mother in Newark, she fought her way to becoming one of Manhattan’s most respected attorneys. Focused, ambitious, and determined never to depend on anyone again, Maya spent six years pretending Ethan no longer mattered. Most days, she almost believed it.” Then Ethan walks back into it. During the biggest case of her career,Maya is stunned to discover that the opposing counsel is her ex-husband. Calm, intelligent, and impossible to forget, Ethan represents his family’s powerful company — the very corporation Maya has been hired to expose in a high-stakes patent theft lawsuit. Forced onto opposite sides of the courtroom, old wounds quickly resurface. Beneath their sharp arguments and professional composure lingers a connection neither of them truly escaped. But as the case unfolds, Maya begins to uncover dangerous inconsistencies hidden beneath the evidence. What first appeared to be corporate theft soon reveals something far more complicated. Someone manipulated the case from the beginning — and somehow ensured that Maya and Ethan would face each other again. The question is why?

Mara Wolfe has clawed her way from humble beginnings to the top of the city’s legal world, building a prestigious law firm brick by brick-while hiding her true nature as a chubby, fiercely intelligent werewolf. Her world shatters when she uncovers her husband’s betrayal: he’s plotting to siphon her hard-earned fortune with the help of his cunning, much younger assistant. Refusing to become a victim, Mara unleashes her sharpest instincts-both human and lupine-to turn the tables. Just as she sets her trap, an enigmatic new associate, Lucas, offers his help. His price? Just one date. But Lucas is more than he seems, and his unexpected loyalty forces Mara to confront what she truly wants from life and love. As secrets unravel and loyalties shift, Mara must decide whether vengeance or vulnerability will define her future. In the end, when a woman becomes the queen of her fate, she always has the chance to rewrite her love story.

One week before her perfect wedding, Skylar Johnson finds her fiancé having wild, breathless sex with her sister in her parents’ winery. She is left broken and humiliated. But one reckless kiss with a stranger in an elevator changes everything, especially when that stranger turns out to be Carter Ford, a married mafia billionaire heir. When their paths cross again, he offers her a position at his company, pulling her into a world of power, obsession, and deceit. Behind the luxury lies a hidden empire, the American Mafia, waging a silent war against the Italian Camorra. And Skylar? She’s the perfect pawn. What begins as passion spirals into obsession as Carter draws her into his illusion, remoulding her into the image of his first love. By the time Skylar sees the truth, it’s too late. She’s already his masterpiece and his prisoner.

Lumaki si Lara sa isang mahirap at magulong pamilya. Lasinggero ang ama, at madalang ang ina sa bahay dahil sa hindi niya maintindihang dahilan. Sa pagkamatay ng ina dahil sa isang "aksidente," nagsimula ang kanyang paghihirap. Sa edad na 16, sinaktan siya at inabusong sekswal ng kanyang tiyuhin at pinsan. Ang pinakamasakit, pati ang ama niya na dapat ay maging sandalan niya, ay pinagtangkaan din siyang abusuhin. Dalawang beses siyang nagbuntis at nagpa-abort sa pamimilit na rin ng mga hayup na nang-abuso sa kanya. Sa edad na 18, tumakas siya at nagmakaawang makapasok sa kumbento. Doon niya aksidenteng nakita si Azrael Fove, isang mayamang abogado na "ninong" niya. Tinulungan siya nito at kinupkop. Nangako rin ito na proprotektahan siya at kailanman ay hindi nito uulitin ang ginawa ng mga lalaking sumalbahe sa kanya. Ngunit paano kung sa isang hindi inaasahang pagkakataon ay malabag ng Ninong Azrael niya ang pangako nito at magbunga pa iyon ng isa na namang binhi sa kanyang sinapupunan? Paano kahaharapin ni Lara ang pagbabalik ng matinding takot na minsan na niyang kinasadlakan, matapos isang lalaki na naman ang dapat na proprotekta sa kanya ang siya pang muling nagwasak sa kaniya? At kahit pa sabihin niyang may namumuo na siyang pagtingin ko sa lalaki, paano niya pa rin niya haharapin ang katotohanan na magkakaanak na sila nito? Gayong bago pa siya pumasok sa buhay nito ay meron nang babae na mahal at nakatakda nang pakasalan nito?