Ann Patchett Books Ranked

When the Earth slipped into a relentless, record-breaking heat, I exhausted everything I had to develop a constant-temperature shelter. Yet, my fiancée, Janine O’Connor, insisted on wearing a bikini and going out to sunbathe with her personal secretary. In my previous life, I stopped her. I warned her that an apocalyptic heatwave was coming, and that countless people would be burned to death simply by being exposed to the heat. However, her personal secretary looked as though he had suffered a great injustice. “I’m sorry, Will,” he said. “But I can’t bear to see Miss Janine stuck in a shelter for the rest of her life. I’ve done my research. This is a period of natural selection for the Earth. Only by adapting quickly to the environment can people truly survive.” Even so, I threatened my own life and forcibly brought Janine back into the shelter. Relying on the shelter I built, Janine survived the apocalypse and rapidly built a survivor base. However, on the second day after she became the base’s leader, she had me hanged outside the shelter and burned alive. “If you hadn’t forced me to come back, Mark wouldn’t have been devastated and killed himself in the heat! He was about to develop a new type of shelter, yet you stole all the credit! I’ll make you pay with your life!” Even after my death, her hatred didn’t fade. She ordered someone to skin me and turn my hide into a rug, stepping on it every day. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day I tried to stop her from sunbathing with Mark Davis.

Lucy lives with a killer. Kidnapped and to be wed to a mafia assassin, Lucy's hopes for a free and pure love were crushed. All she wanted was to be loved and be able to love whomever she wanted. Freely and without demands. Sounds simple enough, right? Not to Dante Romano. Brutal and commanding, he will awaken a darkness in her that she never knew existed. Will she succumb or will she be betrayed? Especially when Lucy wasn't the first choice to begin with. Lucy can't walk away now. Not when Dante not only holds the key to her heart but also to her soul.

Angela Romero-Fernan is an ideal wife. A perfect Type-A wife to be exact. A loving wife to her husband Sebastian Fernan. A caring mother to their only son Thomas Romero Fernan. Angela also fulfills the duty of a CEO on their own family business. You see, she is the perfect ideal wife any man could wish for. But her husband Sebastian saw all those things from a different perspective. And indeed up cheating on her perfect wife Angela. And now shady things happened that their perfect marriage is at risk. The mistress died, pointing all the evidence to Sebastian. And only Angela could save her husband. Secret after secrets starting to reveal. A dilemma that their so-called perfect family is just lingering at the corner. Waiting to unfold. How can Angela cope up with all of these? Is her love enough to protect, her family? A struggle of a wife who vowed in the altar. 'Till death do us apart.'

Ada empat tahap dalam menghadapi duka: penolakan, kemarahan, depresi, dan penerimaan. Setiap orang berjuang dengan cara yang berbeda, dan tak semua bisa melewati tahap terakhir dengan sempurna. Juliette, setelah lima tahun berpisah dari tunangannya, Farley, merasa seolah hidupnya mulai kembali menemukan ritme saat mereka memutuskan untuk bertemu lagi. Pertemuan itu seolah sinar matahari yang menembus celah dedaunan menjelang petang. Tapi kebahagiaan itu hanya bertahan sesaat. Keesokan harinya, sesuatu yang aneh mulai terjadi. Setiap orang yang ia temui, mulai dari teman hingga keluarganya, memberikan respon seolah pertemuan itu bukanlah suatu hal yang patut dijadikan kebahagiaan. "Kenapa mereka semua bersikap begitu?" pikir Juliette, tak mengerti apa yang terjadi di sekitarnya. Apa yang sebenarnya tersembunyi di balik pertemuan mereka? Apakah Farley memang benar-benar kembali untuknya, atau ada rahasia yang lebih gelap yang menyelimuti masa lalu mereka? Perjalanan Juliette dalam menghadapi kenangan yang hilang dan kebenaran yang terpendam membawanya pada sebuah pencarian, di mana duka bukan hanya tentang kehilangan, tetapi juga tentang menemukan kembali bagian dari dirinya yang terlupakan.

On my wedding day, my sister was drugged by my fiancé's best friend and viciously assaulted by a group of groomsmen. When she came to, the shame and horror drove her to leap to her death, her broken body crumpling at my feet. Herbert Brady shielded my eyes from the grisly sight, vowing to make things right. But when the truth came out that Lori Reilly was behind it, he smashed my phone to keep me from calling the police. Lori shrugged with mock innocence. "The guys were just messing around. So what if they tore her clothes off? I've been half-naked around them plenty of times. Why was she so fragile?" She slung her arm around Herbert's neck, whining, "I told you not to marry some broke nobody. Poor people have such brittle pride. Look at the mess Mona has made." When I demanded justice, Herbert stayed cool, sliding a Centurion card across the table. "Ten million dollars. Enough to buy your silence? Lori is one of us, part of the city's elite inner circle. Push your luck, and you're making enemies of everyone who runs this town. Come on, it was just a wedding prank gone wrong." I seized the car and snapped it like a twig. Ten million dollars? To buy the life of the Woodard family's cherished heiress?

She slices her palm and binds herself to the one man the kingdom wants erased. Lydia Virelle doesn’t beg when her family trades her to the royal pack. She takes the blade, seals the marriage, and claims Logan Draven the forbidden Alpha prince locked away like a living weapon. The bond that answers is wrong. Not fate. Not mating. Forbidden. It drags his power into her veins his rage, his control, his darkness and for the first time, Logan breaks. Now the king declares him a threat. The court calls for her execution. And Lydia uncovers the truth behind the betrayal She wasn’t sent to survive Logan. She was sent to control him. Or kill him. As war builds and a force older than the throne rises to claim him, Lydia stops being a sacrifice. She uses the bond. Pushes it. Risks everything. Because if Logan loses control, the kingdom burns. And if she completes her purpose She will shatter the only man who chose her. Will she claim the Devil… or become the weapon that ends him?

Amara Izzie has pulled away from her life as the daughter of the Alpha when a group of masked assailants invade their home slaughtering everyone. Alone and without a family, Amara is forced into a life as a lowly servant for a Baron serving under the new monarchy. There is a storm brewing that is big enough to swallow her and every Lycan in the kingdom along with it. She meets the Baroness's kid brother who she's interested in, and Rocky the driver who isn't really a driver, she likes them both and wants both men for herself, her life takes another drastic turn just when she thinks things couldn't get any worse. How will she be able to navigate through the events that follow as it unwillingly leads her to a faceless rival?

Witty, self made Aurora Russet experiences a sudden life changing encounter when she wakes up one morning, surprised to find herself in a hospital bed. To make matters worse, she gets a shocking revelation when she finds out that she was heavily pregnant, and this is odd because all she could remember is going on a trip months ago in a bid to escape the pain of catching her ex fiancé cheating on her with her best friend months ago. Aurora is stupefied, and is even more alarmed when a beautiful dark and mysterious stranger, whose wealth and charms manage to sweep her off her feet all the time claims ownership of her pregnancy. One chaos leads to another and so she’s therefore plunged into his world of darkness, the world of war and of blood but in the midst of it all, she finds that one thing her soul has always craved for… love. Does it matter now that the love she wanted was being showered upon her by a creature she always feared and despised? And what happens when Aurora finds out that she wasn’t so different from these monsters after all? Read to find out!

After learning the hard truth of how her twin sister Dalilah brainwashed and manipulated her mind for thirteen years, turning her into a ruthless assassin who killed hundreds of innocents including her youngest brother and best friend Valerian, twenty-seven-year-old Princess Natasha Nicholai, is executed in front of the Imperial Palace. Somehow, she gets sent back to the past right before Dalilah started putting her evil string on her mind, to when she was about to turn fourteen, and uses that as an opportunity to not let the past repeat itself, by getting her revenge on her sister and all the people who backed her and saving her younger brother as well as protecting the innocents she knows will be Dalilah's targets. But while also going after the truth about who stole her magic when she was 4yo, who sent her back and why did they do that, she will cross paths with Ethan Theodore, a dangerous and full of secrets guy, with ruby red eyes and whose destiny is directly linked to Natasha's.

She needed money to save her daughter. He needed revenge—and the woman he could never forget. Working late nights as a waitress, Siena Costa had only one goal: to keep her sick child alive. But everything spiraled out of control when thugs cornered her in the club—and her ex-boyfriend stepped in. He wasn’t the same man. Now a ruthless mafia boss, Adriano Valtasari drags her back into his world and gives her a cruel ultimatum: Be mine again… or your daughter pays the price. What he doesn’t know? The little girl he threatens… is his.