Amma Sharp Objects

Menikah karena cinta adalah alasan klise untuk pasangan muda mudi yang jatuh cinta, tapi apa jadinya kalau lelaki yang seharusnya menjadi imam dan bertanggung jawab, menafkahi istri malah sibuk dengan barang koleksi. Bahkan dengan alasan gaji istrinya lebih besar ia malah semakin mengabaikan kebutuhan yang seharusnya menjadi tanggung jawabnya, entah sampai kapan Nanda sang istri bertahan karena cobaan bukan hanya datang dari suaminya yang kekanak-kanakkan tapi dari sang ibu mertua yang ternyata mendukung dan selalu membela anak semata wayangnya. Akankah ada perubahan? Atau malah seperti kisah rumah tangga gagal lainnya yang berujung perpisahan?

After working overtime every day for a month, I finally completed an important code that could save my company. Five minutes into my break, my team leader, Fiona Smith, suddenly hit me in the head with her file. “Because you spent so much time in the office, our electricity bill this month has increased by 15 kWh! Do you see this office as a free air-conditioning supplier?” I was about to defend myself when she angrily pointed at my cell phone and tablet on my desk. “You’re charging your devices here? You should charge them at home! Aren’t you aware of the company’s current condition?” I could no longer hold back my anger. “Fiona, I’ve been working overtime. I’m not here doing nothing!” “Can’t you do overtime at home instead? For a fresh graduate, you sure know how to exploit the company’s resources. Who knows what other despicable things you might be capable of doing in the future?!” Fiona yelled. I stared at her twisted expression and suddenly chuckled. If only my parents had seen me working so hard over such a trivial matter. They would have immediately asked me to quit and work in their company instead. I grabbed the flash drive with the important code and called my secretary. “Jane, I’d like to purchase Galaxy Corporation, and I want it to be the best in the industry.”

In my third month of employment, I realized that my colleagues were calling me an old geezer behind my back. This nickname came from Wanda Stewart’s arrogant and ambitious assistant. I had hit the age of 32, but was still clinging onto the last vestiges of hope of marriage after eight long years of our relationship. I asked Wanda, “Do you know that your subordinates call me an old geezer?” She said without batting an eyelid, “That’s just the way Samuel is. He’s just a straight-talker and he’s just kidding. You’re already 32, are you seriously fussing about this?” She then chuckled, “You two are really alike.” My heart turned cold. Turns out that eight years of my youth were nothing but a joke to her. I turned to leave, resigning from my post and blocking her. Yet, the woman who was always so calm and cool started panicking. “Jansen Graham, please come back to me.”

Alenya Vale has always been ordinary, or so she thought. Soft, curvy, and painfully underestimated, she never imagined that her human life was hiding a deadly secret. The truth? Alenya carries Null Blood, an ancient, extinct power that can erase magic on contact. Curses unravel at her touch, alpha commands bounce off her like sunlight, and even the most violent god fragments falter in her presence. To the supernatural world, she’s priceless. To the gods, she’s a threat. Thane Raelthorn is the heir of the most powerful wolf clan in Vaelora, and a demi-god slowly being consumed from within by a god fragment. His magic rages uncontrollably, destroying everything he touches, and every mate who comes near him suffers. Until the night he collapses at Alenya’s feet. The moment she touches him, the madness stops. For the first time in years, the wolf-born prince can breathe, think, and feel. Only she can silence the divine parasite clawing at his soul. Thrown into a world of wolf clans, arcane houses, and divine ruins, Alenya must navigate a realm that suddenly sees her as both savior and target. Assassins, jealous she-wolves, and monstrous god fragments are hunting her, and Thane will do anything to keep her alive. Soft and sarcastic, underestimated and overlooked, Alenya is more than she appears and her curves hold the power to topple gods and change destiny itself. Thane is more than he appears too, brutal, beautiful, and on the edge of madness, he is hers, whether she wants him or not. Fated mates. Dangerous magic. Divine predators. Only together can they survive a world that wants them dead and a destiny that wants them united.

Jenna Goldwine, gadis 19 tahun yang berprofesi sebagai pemburu penyihir atau Hunters. Berjuang bersama klannya untuk memerangi bangkitnya para penyihir hitam yang mengincar cawan-cawan sakti, yakni instrumen-instrumen sakral sekaligus penting dalam dunia sihir hitam. Cawan-cawan itu harus segera dimusnahkan agar penyihir hitam tidak bisa menggunakannya. Tugas yang berat dan rumit membuat Jenna terjebak dalam tuduhan keji yang mengakibatkannya dijatuhi hukuman bakar. Kehancuran klannya juga menjadi ancaman besar yang harus dihadapi bersama. Di tengah misi perburuan itu, Jenna bertemu lelaki muda menawan bernama Elgar serta kakak perempuannya, Kathleen seorang tabib hebat yang menyimpan banyak rahasia. Kebersamaan yang mereka jalani membuat Jenna dan Elgar mulai jatuh hati satu sama lain. Tetapi perbedaan keduanya membuat cinta mereka sulit diwujudkan. Jenna harus memilih antara lelaki yang dicintainya atau profesinya sebagai Hunter. Keselamatan nyawanya dan keutuhan klannya adalah hal utama yang harus diperjuangkan, disamping menghadapi bangkitnya penyihir-penyihir hitam yang ingin mengembalikan kekuatan mereka dengan cawan-cawan sakti. Akankah semua berakhir bahagia?

Kata orang kita semua akan menjalani kehidupan baru setelah menikah, akan banyak suka dan duka setelahnya.  Aku menikah dengan seorang lelaki yang kucintai, tak peduli akan statusnya yang bukanlah anak kandung dari orang tua yang saat ini bersamanya. Karena ingin membalas budi kepada mereka, Suamiku tetap memilih tinggal di rumah Ibu Angkatnya, wanita yang sama sekali tak pernah memberikan kasih sayang padanya karena kasih sayang itu hanya didapatkan oleh Ayah yang kini sudah tiada.  Dengan Mas Azka anak angkatnya saja Ibu memperlakukannya dengan penuh kebencian, tak perlu ditanya bagaimana denganku kan?  Hari-hari yang kujalani begitu berat hingga akhirnya membuatku memilih untuk memaksa suamiku pergi dan menegaskan kepada Ibu dan Ipar-iparku kalau kami tak sepantasnya diperlakukan begini.  Dengan penuh keberanian akhirnya aku memilih jalan untuk menyadarkan mereka, jika statusku ini adalah Menantu dan bukanlah seorang Babu. Setelah beberapa lama akhirnya semua berjalan baik-baik saja, namun cobaan kembali mengguncang rumah tanggaku, segala hal sudah kucoba, bertahan, berjuang, hingga akhirnya sampai pada titik pasrah.  Orang ketiga yang memasuki istanaku mencoba untuk menyingkirkan posisiku, namun aku tetap berdiri dengan tangguh dan membuat semuanya sadar bahwa seorang Ratu tak akan pernah menjadi Babu!

A shy 17-year-old girl learns her father has arranged for her to marry an alpha from another pack. Not happy that she is not taking over her father's pack she grows to resent her father, mother as she tries to resist her new alpha but is finding it harder and harder to do.

By my third month on the job, I discovered that my coworkers had been calling me "the old crow" behind my back. The nickname came from none other than Jace's condescending secretary—because at 32, I was still clutching onto an eight-year relationship that hadn't ended in marriage. I confronted Jace. "Do you know your employees have been calling me the old crow?" He didn't even bother to look up. "That's just Sadie—she speaks her mind and means no harm. You're 32; why get so worked up over what a young girl says?" Then he gave me a faint, mocking smile. "Though honestly, it's a pretty fitting nickname." It felt like a cold hand had wrapped around my heart. So that was it—eight years of my youth, nothing more than a joke to him. I turned and walked away, handed in my resignation, and blocked every way he could reach me. But for the first time, the man who had always seemed so calm and untouchable finally panicked. "Elara," he pleaded, "please come back."

Seventeen-year-old Elara Ward has spent her life being forgotten and shuffled between foster homes and small towns that never remembered her once she’s gone. But the dying town of Willowmere is different. The air hums with whispers, the lake no longer reflects the moon, and something ancient is stirring beneath the willows. When Elara follows a strange light into the woods one blood-red night, she crosses the veil and a boundary between the human world and the Lumenwild, a realm of living moonlight and haunted shadows. There, she’s marked by an ancient power known as Moonfire, a symbol burned into her skin that pulses with the rhythm of the twin moons above. Saved by four mysterious men who are named Cael, their golden-eyed Alpha; Kian, the lightning-tongued rogue; Auren, the silent watcher; and Nyx, the shadow who walks between worlds and Elara learns that her arrival has reignited a prophecy buried in legend. The Riftborn, creatures of bone and smoke, are returning, and the mark she bears is both a weapon and a curse. In the heart of the Lumenwild’s glowing forest lies the Sanctum, a stronghold where wolves walk in light and the Moon’s will is law. There, Elara begins to uncover the truth, her crossing was no accident. The veil didn’t just let her in but it had called her home. As the moons draw closer and the bond between Elara and the wolves deepens, she must choose whether to embrace the power that could heal a broken world… or unleash the one that could end it. Because the Moon is awake again and she remembers her chosen.

Amy was a single mother of three. She worked security at one of the largest casinos in Oklahoma. No time for games or drama she was doing what she needed to do to get away from her ex with her children. Amy was independent and didn't need anyone... or did she? Amy was determined to do it for herself and her kids. She didn't need any help and she wasn't looking for anything anyone had to offer. Dedicated only to her job and her kids Amy was dead set on getting out of her current living condition and starting a new life. June would change everything when Amy is blind sided by a real life Adonis. Find out how Amy handles the changes that are about to take over her life in A Man I Never knew I Needed.