Another Word For Things

She was paid to make him fall in love with her, marry her and then disappear. Just when she thought things would go well and she would be over and done with her six months deal, Ria Gabriel found herself deep rooted and unable to untangle herself from the love web.

Eduardo is a rich and handsome guy who has lived a luxurious life. He grew up in his father's mansion not knowing who his real mother was. After he lost his first love through assassination by his cousin, Jeffrey, who wanted revenge for sleeping with his girlfriend, his life was shattered, until he met Cindy who turned the whole story around. Cindy who was the only child of her parents lost her parents in an accident and was turned into a house help in her father's house. Cindy almost got killed by Eduardo's car in the process of running away from her home. She later discovered that it wasn't really an accident that killed her parents but her uncle Mr Black who wanted to take over her father's wealth. Jessica was supposed to be married to Eduardo, but he refused her because of Cindy without even realizing he was in love with her. Jessica made multiple attempts to kill Cindy when she found out she was the reason why Eduardo refused her and when she didn't succeed she almost committed suicide. Eduardo's mother who has been an imposter since he married Eduardo's father, killed him and arranged for Eduardo to marry Jessica but when she saw that he was in love with another girl, Cindy, she tried to kill her by pushing her down the balcony. Eduardo's mother was exposed for all her evil deeds against Eduardo's father Mr Hudson and Cindy, Mr Black Cindy's uncle and Mr Austin the great treasure hunter in the city were arrested and thrown into prison.

"Cry , just cry I want to see you cry."he cooed in my ears and then he starts thrusting in and out of me angressively. I couldn't scream anymore as I was too weak to make a sound. my eyes transformed into a dam of water and tears blurred my vision pouring down my cheeks like rain. I was already feeling like a slave for him, cause I willingly submitted to his want. He wanted me to cry and that I did, cause I had no choice. As I jerked under him, I felt as though I was in torment, hell, purgatory infact anything worst. I wanted this to stop but it didn't. He kept thrusting in and out of me till I could no longer take the pains. Was this the sex people call fun? Or was he just doing this to turture me? Each pains he inflicted on me, made me feel his burning urge to get his revenge. Whatever my father did to him must be very cruel and it filled me with Guilt. I felt so guilty that I didn't want to beg him, cause I stupidly thought I deserve this. What happens when the daughter of the most powerful Alpha is captured by another Alpha and turned into a slave for the sake of revenge?

Adriano Ferrari is the Capo of the Lato Oscuro Mafia organization. As, Capo one thing that is expected of him is that he must have a wife. He begrudgingly agrees to take a wife and he struggles to make the marriage work as he feels like marriage was a big waste of time. He also has a lot of darkness and skeletons in his closet that he's afraid to bring her into. Ismeralda Romano is the daughter of the Consigliere of the Lato Oscuro. Like every girl in the Mafia, she is to be married off by the time she is eighteen. Ismeralda has already prepared herself for marriage but what she didn't prepare herself for was that she would be married to a stone, cold-hearted man who would by all means push her away. Ismeralda vows to make her marriage work and she makes it her goal to show Adriano the brighter things in life. In their crazy world, will her plan to save her husband and her marriage work?

Bain and Gia met in Sizzling Strip, a pub along Times Square where Gia works. Bain is hunting for the perfect woman to propose a deal to—be his girlfriend and convince his mother he is in love with another woman so she will help extricate him from an arranged engagement with a socialite he wanted to back out of. Gia can’t believe the exorbitant fee she is going to get paid with, until he informed her there will be—possibly—a marriage contract should it come to it. And the reason she was qualified for the job? Not only did he like her, he feels she is attracted to him, too. But Gia has important reasons to accept the proposal--her mother has cancer and needed money for treatment, they're going to lose their house and her nanny, and she is a semester away from graduating college. It isn't like it’s going to be hard pretending to be the girlfriend of a wealthy, hot and sexy businessman. So the contract is signed and all and she is set to follow her boyfriend to Texas to start the game and meet with his mother. Whatever else could go wrong?

Lily Lai, a young lady of twenty-three, remains pure and untainted by the sinful desires of people even after enduring years of intense brutality and indifference from her parents. All she yearns for is to savor the sweetness of love, something that is foreign to her. she meets Lucas Fernandez, a cold-hearted and mysterious man. He makes it clear to her from the beginning that his world isn’t filled with a bed of roses nor is it full of sunshine but one of risks and selfish desires, yet for an odd reason, it attracts her to him even more. Is it the way his indifference glows in his eyes, the lethality that oozes from his aura or the darkness she’s feeling but cannot resist? Lucas makes Lily desire feelings she never knew existed while she reveals to him another outlook on life. In a world where danger freely lurks in the shadows their bond is as intoxicating as it is dangerous. Lily’s past, filled with wounds from years of torment and trauma she tries to forget will slowly unravel coupled with the mysteries around Lucas. Will Lily survive his hell that makes him who he is when she has already battled her own demons? Will her light overshadow his darkness or will his darkness swallow her whole?

"You are nothing but a whore like your mother!" He had snarled and left her with crutches in the rain. That was the last thing he had said to her years ago. Now she was back in his life as his PA... or was she? **** After a high school relationship that never should have been, Louis breaks Zoe's heart when she needed him the most and blamed her for his father eloping with her mother. After years of picking up the broken pieces of her life and heart, they meet again. But Zoe Carter is here not for an income, she is back for revenge. She was assigned the mission of intimately investigating billionaire bachelor, Louis Rodriguez as an undercover detective working as his employee. His ties to the mafia and drug underworld, she hopes will be his undoing. However, things get complicated when unwanted craving rise from the dust and then the unexpected happens when her mother is found. Beaten, tortured and with her memories lost. Soon it is clear someone or something is out for the woman's blood. She finds out that the perpetrators are the very organisation that Louis is suspected to be tied to. The Mafia. What Is it that Zoe's mother knows that makes a target? Where is Louis' father? Will Zoe alone face this new woe in her life and get the revenge she so desperately wants? Or will she be pushed into the arms of Louis, her enemy when she goes asking for help? Especially when she is the mother to his child that he does not know exists. Find out in the thrilling enemies to lovers novel "Craving For Her".

Kirana si perempuan unik, dia jutek tapi cengeng, galak dan doyan gosip. Panji si pria kompleks, dia berhati lembut tapi juga temperamen, dia yang judes sekaligus serampangan. Usai lulus SMA, Panji menghilang dibawa angin, ditelan bumi, tidak ada satu pun teman sekolah yang tahu keberadaannya. Tapi kemudian setelah bertahun-tahun, dia kembali lagi ke kehidupan Kirana tanpa diduga. Mimpi-mimpi Kirana dibangunkan kembali meski kini dia sudah punya gandengan baru. Kirana dijungkir balikkan, dia mengaku cinta mati pada Panji, walau dia tahu resiko berhubungan dengan pria tanpa komitmen seperti Panji: dia hanya akan buang-buang waktu dalam penantian. Demi mengikat Panji agar tidak pergi lagi, Kirana nekat, dia mendesak supaya bisa tinggal bersama Panji, bahkan pingin mengandung anaknya. Berhasilkah cara licik Kirana? Apa pria bebas seperti Panji pada akhirnya tunduk pada sebuah ikatan? Mungkinkah mereka bersama selamanya? Atau Panji datang hanya untuk mematahkan hati Kirana untuk kedua kali? Kisah ini bukan hanya romantis, tapi juga diisi humor segar nan nyeleneh yang ajaib ^^

Florence Gomez-Hilton has been married to Lucas Hilton for almost three years. Their marriage has been smooth, except for one thing: she can’t give him a child. On their third wedding anniversary, Florence believes Lucas is planning a surprise for her. Instead, she is shocked when Lucas announces he wants a divorce. The real bombshell comes when she discovers that her best friend is pregnant with her husband’s child. In a devastated and heartbroken state, Florence is approached by a mysterious, cold-hearted billionaire, Alexander Sterling, who offers to help her get revenge on her husband and former best friend if she agrees to marry him.

"Ya! Aku mencintai bintang. Putra anda. Tapi anda akan menikah dengan ibu saya, jadi saya tak berhak memupuk cinta ini lagi." Arkania Lintang Jagat membuat drama untuk menggagalkan pernikahan ke tiga ibunya. Namun, drama yang ia mulai justru menjeratnya dalam hubungan cinta yang rumit. Sang Ibu yang mengetahui putri semata wayangnya mengidap Haphephobia pun meminta sebuah pembuktian atas pernyataannya. Dengan nekatnya Lintang mengecup bibir Bintang di hadapan semua orang. Ishan, mantan kekasih yang dulu ia campakkan turut menyaksikan sandiwara yang Lintang buat. Melihat gadis yang masih bertahta di hatinya mengecup bibir sepupu sekaligus saudara angkatnya membuatnya bertekad untuk merebutnya kembali, walau kenyataannya Ishan pernah di campakkan.