Apa Itu Second Choice

Gayatri Harimurti sama sekali tidak menduga jika anak yang ia lahirkan sepuluh tahun lalu, ternyata masih hidup dan kini dalam kondisi kritis. Sayangnya, darah Gayatri tidaklah cocok dengan sang anak. Perempuan itu pun harus menghadirkan Narawastu Adiwangsa, ayah kandung anaknya yang sangat membencinya karena ayah perempuan itu pernah merusak nama baik keluarga Narawastu. Lantas, berhasilkah Gayatri menyelamatkan nyawa sang anak?

Caramel hancur ketika Leon membatalkan pernikahannya begitu saja. Padahal, ia tengah mengandung anak mereka. Parahnya lagi, pria itu menjadi boss baru di tempat kerjanya dan mengaku telah bertunangan dengan Alexa--wanita yang selama ini diakui sebatas teman masa kecilnya. Sebenarnya, apa yang terjadi? Lantas, bagaimana nasib janin yang tengah dikandung Caramel? Akankah Leon menyesali keputusannya?

Di Bilang Burik, miskin dan jelek. Bahkan para tetangga dan saudara sering menyebutnya silum@n, karena wajahnya yang hitam bertompel, namun dengan tubuhnya putih, begitu kontras dengan wajah. Istrinya pun bahkan pernah mengira bahwa suaminya memanglah silum@n zebra. Namun semua itu hanyalah penyamaran. Nyatanya saat mereka mengetahuinya. Semua orang langsung MATI KUTU, tak menyangka bahwa pria yang selama ini, mereka hina ternyata seorang Sultan. Kenapa pria Sultan itu harus menyamar?

Alana tak pernah menyangka jika identitas yang sebenarnya dari sang suami, Evan, ialah sosok hebat di balik sebuah perusahaan besar. Selama ini, ia hanya tahu jika suaminya itu adalah pria yang mengajaknya membangun rumah tangga dengan kondisi yang biasa saja bahkan terbilang kekurangan dan tak punya apa-apa meski merupakan seseorang yang berpendidikan. Bukan hanya itu, Alana juga sama sekali tidak tahu, betapa besar pengorbanan Evan hanya untuk dapat menikah dengan orang yang sangat dicintai, yaitu dirinya. Lantas, ketika identitas Evan terkuak, apakah Alana akan merasa senang? Atau justru merasa sakit hati karena selama ini Evan telah berbohong? Lalu, bagaimana dengan kisah kehidupan rumah tangga mereka selanjutnya?

She saved him, she loved him, she gave her life for him. What did she get in return? He stepped on her heart, he turned everyone against her, they almost killed her. But... She was reborn. Not to ten years in the past, nor to a time before everything started. But she was reborn as a devil, a devil who came to take everything away from those who hurt her. He would help her; he would do anything for her. Even kill for her. When a naive woman meets a cruel man, she becomes so cruel that he won't be able to fight against her. How does that saying go? Nothing is more dangerous in this world, than a human who has nothing to lose, especially a woman who has been scorned. She has come back for revenge, and she will get her revenge. In the worst way possible.

Life has a funny way of throwing curveballs, and for Ella Blake, it was a fastball right to the heart. On the same day she discovered she was pregnant, her husband, Lucas, dropped a bombshell: his childhood sweetheart, Amy, was also expecting—and he wanted Ella to raise the child. Talk about a double whammy! Devastated and feeling utterly betrayed, Ella packed her bags and left the life she once knew, vowing never to look back. Fast forward six years, and she's back, but with a new look and a fierce attitude. Lucas can’t believe his luck when he spots her, mistaking their chemistry for a chance to rekindle their past. But with secrets, old feelings, and Amy reappearing with her own bombshell, can Ella find a way to reclaim her heart, or will revenge take the wheel? What will happen when the past collides with the present?

Atasan baru di kantorku ternyata adalah mantan pacar yang dulu kutinggalkan karena sebuah perjodohan! Kabar yang kudengar ... dia adalah seorang duda, berarti dia sudah menikah? Sedangkan aku mendapatkan karmaku ditinggal calon suami pilihan orang tua menjelang pernikahan. Lantas, apakah kami mungkin akan merajut kisah yang belum selesai?

“I didn’t mean leave the house; I meant leave the pack. I don’t want you here; you should be grateful because I am doing you a favor.” Damon said. “What?” I exclaimed, my eyes threatening to bulge out. Roxanne, an orphan, and Damon, the son of the Alpha, have been best friends since childhood. They have a one-night stand when Damon is crowned as the alpha, even though they're not fated mates. However, Damon finds his fated mate two weeks later and chooses his mate as Luna, which breaks Roxanne’s heart. He orders her to leave the pack, and she leaves the pack and melts herself into the human world. However, she finds herself pregnant with twins… Years later, Roxanne has become a successful, famous doctor who raises her triplets. She's dated with Kylian for 2 years. One day she gets orders from Damon to go back to the pack. The fact is Damon is cheated on and rejected by his fated mate after their 6-year marriage. His father falls sick and he needs her help. Roxanne is unwilling to go back but is kidnapped by the pack. Upon they meet again, Damon finds Roxanne is his second chance mate, but Roxanne can't recognize the mate bond because she gets wolf bane. As secrets surfaced and old wounds reopened, Roxanne and Damon found themselves confronting their past, navigating through love, betrayal, and the hope of second chances. Can they overcome the hurdles standing in their way, or are their destinies forever intertwined in heartache?

Mita, dengan segudang pengalaman sebagai manajer selebriti, tak menyangka akan menghadapi tantangan terberatnya: Gun Saliba. Chef terkenal ini bukan hanya rewel, tapi juga mantan yang ingin Mita kubur dalam-dalam! Parahnya, Gun langsung memperlihatkan sikap permusuhan dan berniat mengerjainya habis-habisan. Lantas, bagaimana nasib Mita? Terlebih, Gun sepertinya tak benar-benar tau alasan Mita mengakhiri hubungan mereka...?

Eidolon Avenue: Where the secretly guilty go to die. One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards. The sequel to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (“a great read...powerful and jarring” - Cemetery Dance) returns to the voracious Eidolon as it savors The Second Feast. A narcoleptic man in apartment 2A battles a vengeful past determined to rob him of everything as he runs from the barbaric disaster of a delusional love. A woman in 2B, reinventing herself to please a callous boyfriend, discovers the horrors that wait in the shadows of her self-renovation. The man in 2C, a teacher at the nearby Catholic girl’s school, collapses beneath the brutal consequences of his lecherous desires. An older woman in 2D, after decades dedicated to the church, is cornered at last by the grisly carnage beating at the hollow center of her faith. And a college student in 2E, hungry to escape an ignored life of invisible anonymity, finds herself captured between the pages of a ravenous book. All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every drop of spilled blood, every silent, complicit moment of cowardice is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing