And After The Fire A Novel

The love that I knew wasn't like the ones written in a book. It wasn't beautiful and magical. It doesn't bring butterflies in my stomach and it doesn't make me feel special. It doesn't feel like home, I do not feel secure. It does not make me feel safe and worthy. The love that I experience doesn't feel like love. I'm not really sure if it is love because it made me doubt, insecure and made me feel unloved. And all I experienced was pain. No it was torture. To see him love someone else when all I could do is to love him and let him love her. Now I don't know if I could ever love someone else, after him.

Dakota Stelter and I tumbled down that steep ravine together. I lay there bleeding and broken, only to watch my boyfriend scoop her into his arms and walk away without a backward glance. He left me. In that moment, in every way that mattered. While everyone fussed over Dakota's scratches, no one even checked if I was still breathing. When I was finally rescued and recovering at the hospital, my boyfriend didn't even visit. I was hurt. So I moved on. Piece by piece, I rebuilt myself without him. But then he became distraught. Suddenly, he was sobbing, telling me he had always loved me.

เพราะคำว่า ‘ทรยศ’ จากคนที่เขาไว้ใจที่สุด ‘เพลิง’ พญาสิงห์แห่งวงการมาเฟียจึงเปลี่ยนความรักเป็นไฟแค้น! ในเมื่อพี่ชายของเธอหักหลังเขา... เธอก็ต้องเป็นคนรับผิดชอบหนี้ครั้งนี้ด้วยร่างกาย! “น้ำตาล... พี่ชายเธอมันสารเลว! ในเมื่อมันกล้าลองดีกับฉัน เธอก็ต้องอยู่ชดใช้กรรมแทนมันที่นี่!” จากผู้หญิงที่เขาเคยเอ็นดู กลับกลายเป็น ‘นางบำเรอขัดดอก’ ที่เขาจองจำไว้ด้วยความเกลียดชัง เขาขยี้หัวใจเธอ... เขาตราหน้าเธอ... แต่ยิ่งทำร้าย เธอกลับยิ่งสั่นคลอนกำแพงน้ำแข็งในใจของเขา กว่าจะรู้ว่าทุกอย่างคือ ‘แผนร้าย’ ที่เขาเข้าใจผิด... หัวใจของน้ำตาลก็แหลกสลายไปพร้อมกับลูกน้อยในครรภ์เสียแล้ว! “คุณเพลิง... พอสักทีเถอะค่ะ ตาลไม่ได้ทำอะไรผิด พี่ต้นไม่ได้ทรยศคุณ!” ท่ามกลางสมรภูมิมาเฟียที่เดือดระอุ ไฟแค้นครั้งนี้จะดับลงด้วยหยาดน้ำตา หรือจะมอดไหม้ไปพร้อมกับหัวใจของคนทั้งคู่?

Beautiful young Roxanne gets caught up in a mysterious deadly experiment of survival created by a multi billion dollar company known as International body of evolutionary divergence aka IBED. If she fails the entire world dies but if she survived the world escapes a deadly world war III... "She was met with two terrible things, the choking smell of rotten corpses and a room full of dead bodies hanging from ropes attached to the roof. Slowly she began to make her way passed the corpses one after the other"

Cress height, A town where nightmares lurk in the dark waiting to consume their prey. Maeve Spelman a young witch who abandoned her past in cress heights after the horrible deaths of her family, to start a new life as an actress in LA. Fate has other plans for her as she finds herself back in cress heights. What happens when she finds out she is not only a vampire but also the soul mate of Xavier; The dark emperor of everything unholy who was raised from hell?

Amalia Hapsari, wanita cantik yang tahun ini menginjak usia 30 tahun, memiliki kehidupan yang sulit karena harus bekerja banting tulang untuk menghidupi dirinya sendiri dan ibunya yang sakit-sakitan. Tak punya waktu untuk mencari kekasih. Hingga takdir mempertemukan dirinya dengan seorang Revan Wirabrata, atasan barunya di kantor. Dan akhirnya mereka memiliki rasa yang sama dan saling tertarik. Namun sayangnya status Revan adalah suami dari Asti Prameswari. Walaupun pernikahan mereka berdua sudah berada di ujung tanduk kehancuran sebelum Revan mengenal Amalia, tapi tetap saja Amalia mendapatkan predikat buruk sebagai seorang pelakor. Dapatkah Amalia dan mempertahankan cintanya pada Revan? Ataukah Amalia akan menyerah?

By day, Maeve Briggs is just a regular, quiet high school senior. She tries to blend in, takes care of her younger brother, and deals with her mom cleaning the huge, fancy Dovewood mansion—a mansion owned by the very rich and very dangerous Caden Dovewood. But at night, Maeve becomes someone totally different: Eve. She puts on a black wig and high heels, dancing for strangers in a secret club. No one there knows who she really is. It's her secret way to escape her tough life and earn money to pay the bills. Then, Caden Dovewood walks into the club. He sees her, recognizes her, but Maeve remains unaware he's witnessed her secret life. It's only later, likely at his mansion, that Caden reveals his knowledge. He's loaded with money, he's dangerous, and he's the last person Maeve ever wanted to know her secret. Now that he does, he won't let it go. He's always a step ahead, pulling her closer with words that make her heart race and eyes that seem to see right through her. He doesn't just want to know her secrets; he wants her. And he doesn't feel one bit guilty about going after her, making their whole situation a dangerous and twisted game.

Ashton didn't know how she would move on. How she would keeping putting one foot in front of another, until Z came along and changed everything. Would his darker world save her or destroy her?

Still tormented by the past, Bella commits herself to unearth the truth behind her sister's sudden disappearance. When a mysterious student, Gino Valler, offers her an alliance to solve the mystery of the past, she realizes that what she is dealing with is bigger than she has anticipated. Everything she believes in slowly collapsed while she struggles to build trust with her newfound partner and race against the unknown evil. The closer she is to the truth, the more ambiguous the answer becomes. Now she has to learn to fight for herself and accept the truth before the devious traitor—lurking in the back drop—wins the chase.

"What the fuck—” I started. He looked up at me. His lips were wet, swollen. He licked them slowly, like he was savoring the taste. “Keep your hands where I left them,” he said. My jaw clenched. My knuckles went white against the bedsheets. I didn’t speak. I just watched him. He lowered his mouth again, slower this time. His tongue circled the tip, then slid down the side. I felt every second of it. Every inch. He paused halfway down and looked up at me again. “You like this too much.” My throat tightened. I didn’t answer. “Bet you’ve never let anyone make you beg.” *** Callum Kesington isn’t just a billionaire CEO. He doesn’t believe in love. He believes in control and power.But when his estranged brother resurfaces through a cryptic call, dragging him into a trail of files, threats, and old betrayals, everything he's built starts to crack. Remy Beckett, a rising star in the culinary world, is no strang to love but one man has him unraveled. A single dinner at Remy’s restaurant ignites an attraction that shakes Callum’s carefully guarded world. He’s never wanted a man before. Never craved the scrape of stubble against his skin or the heat of rough hands pinning him down. But Remy? He’s all Callum can think about. A shadowy attack leaves Remy bleeding in Callum’s arms, and suddenly, this isn’t about desire. It's about survival. Someone wants Remy dead, and Callum’s brother is at the center of it. Now, Callum must confront the ruthless empire he built, the family who betrayed him, and the truth he’s been denying.