Apa Itu Try Hard

perjalanan seorang gadis mencari cinta sejati. mencari belahan jiwa bukan perkara mudah, mesya mengalami beberapa kali kegagalan dalam mencari saoulmatenya hingga ia sempat putus asa, Akankah ia menemukan soulmate yang ia cari ?

Ten years ago, I ditched a high-paying job for my family. A decade later, they asked for my kidney—supposedly for my daughter, Talia. Turns out, the real patient was Hudson's first love's son. They didn't even fake remorse. Hudson sneered, convinced I couldn't survive without him. Talia called me old and fat, acting like I should be grateful to help Bianca's kid. A whole decade of sacrifice, and what did I get? No love. No thanks. Just entitlement. To them, I was nothing but a free, disposable maid. So I walked. No regrets. I rebuilt my life, found a job, and never looked back. Then reality smacked them. Hudson and Talia finally realized everything I'd done. They begged me to come back—but my heart was already stone-cold. In the end, I left the country, threw myself into work, and finally learned what it meant to live.

My wedding to Don Lorenzo Corsica was always 'almost.' Five years engaged. Thirty-two weddings. Every single one crashed and burned. Then came number thirty-three. Halfway through, the chapel wall caved in. I landed in the ICU. Skull fracture. Major concussion. A dozen critical alerts. Two months stuck between life and death. Then I clawed my way back. On discharge day, I caught him talking to his right-hand guy. "Don, if you're really into that scholarship girl, just dump Ms. Mortoro," the guy said. "Corsicas can kill gossip. No need for staged accidents... She nearly died." Lorenzo went quiet. Then finally, "I owed her parents. They died for me. Marrying her was the only way to repay that. But I love Sofia. She's the one I want." I looked down at my stitched-up body and cried without a sound. So it wasn't fate that wrecked me. It was him. If he couldn't choose, I'd do it for him.

Meli---cinta pertamaku datang kembali setelah aku menikah dan sekantor denganku. Aku merekomendasikannya sebagai penebus rasa bersalah karena sudah meninggalkannya. Kehadiran Meli kerap membuat aku bertengkar juga dengan Hanum---istriku---wanita pilihan ibu, hingga akhrinya dia pergi setelah kata talak terucap membawa dua anakku. Aku kira, setelah dia pergi, aku akan akan bahagia. Namun, entah kenapa, Meli jadi tak menarik lagi. Aku hampir gila mencari Hanum dan keberadaan kedua anakku ditambah tekanan Ibu yang begitu menyayangi mereka. Akhirnya aku menemukannya, tetapi tak berapa lama, justru surat undangan yang kuterima. Hanumku akan menikah dan aku merasakan patah hati yang sesungguhnya.

Seventeen-year-old Harper Lane has always flown under the radar. A curvy, quiet junior with a passion for sketching dragons and acing calculus, she’s the kind of girl people borrow notes from but never invite to parties. That’s fine by her—Harper has no time for popularity contests or high school heartbreaks. Until he starts talking to her. Jaxon Brooks is Madison Grove High’s golden boy—star quarterback, arrogant heartthrob, and very much taken. He’s everything Harper avoids... and everything she secretly can't stop watching. But when fate—and an unfortunately timed biology assignment—forces them together, Harper discovers there’s more to Jaxon than flawless abs and Instagram fame. He’s been watching her too. Caught between late-night texts, hallway tension, and the spotlight glare of Jaxon’s cheerleader girlfriend, Harper is suddenly drowning in attention she never asked for and feelings she doesn’t know how to handle. And Jaxon? He’s playing a dangerous game—torn between the girl who fits his image and the one who sees through it. In a world where likes mean love and screenshots can ruin lives, Harper must decide if risking everything for Jaxon Brooks is worth the heartbreak... or if some boys really are Out of Her League.

Jake has to get married in order to access his inheritance and his father’s company. There’s one problem, he’s a playboy and the thought of settling down with someone unnerves him. With the help of his best friend, Kyle, they set up a marriage contract which entails that he’ll be married to whichever girl of his choosing for just a year then the marriage would be dissolved and they would go their separate ways. The girl chosen would be compensated generously with lots of money, which was what Olivia needed more than anything. Olivia sees the ad but is not sure if that was what she wanted for herself. After a little persuasion, she signed the contract with Jake knowing there was no chance of her falling in love with the billionaire because she liked girls. Just a year and she would be free to live her life again, with lots of money this time. Jake marries Olivia and couldn’t be any happier because he could still see a lot of girls and not have to worry about her nurturing any kind of feelings for him. A couple months in and Jake finds himself falling in love with Olivia as he sees a side to her that she hides away from the world.

It has been three years since Hailey and Knox signed a marriage agreement. It was an impromptu agreement where everyone got their share of the deal. Knox got a beautiful wife to please his grandmother. However for Hailey... Her father's crumbling family business was revived. The only reward she was getting out of the deal was the clause where it was stated that none of them was obligated to perform sexual marital rites towards the other. But, Knox's grandmother died and the contract was no longer valid. However after the divorce, the man was beginning to feel the void left of her presence in his life. He began to notice her more. Until eventually, he found himself falling in love with his ex wife.

Sauqi dan Bia adalah sepasang sahabat yang sudah bersama sejak mereka masih berada di bangku kanak-kanak. Namun, setelah remaja, tiba-tiba Bia berubah secara mendadak, mulai dari penampilan, perilaku, dan sifatnya. Bia yang semula adalah gadis yang tomboi dan senang berkelahi, tiba-tiba menjadi seorang muslimah yang menutup diri. Bahkan, tiba-tiba Bia juga mulai menjauhi Sauqi. Sauqi dibuat bingung dengan perubahan yang terjadi pada sahabatnya itu. Apa yang sebenarnya terjadi pada Bia?

Nayla memiliki seorang suami bernama Rendy, namun pernikahan yang dia impikan selama ini berakhir seperti neraka baginya. Dia mendapati kakaknya berselingkuh dengan suaminya. Setiap hari, Rendy memperlakukan dirinya seperti babu dan bahkan lebih memilih selingkuhannya di banding dia. Hingga pada akhirnya, saat kakaknya membutuhkan donor ginjal, Rendy memohon padanya untuk mendonorkan ginjalnya untuk selingkuhannya itu. Awalnya Nayla menuruti permintaan suaminya, hingga saat di alam bawah sadar, dia di perlihatkan semua kelakuan suami dan selingkuhannya itu dan bahkan kelakuan suaminya saat menyakiti fisiknya. Bahkan, suaminya memaksanya untuk menandatangani surat cerai. Akankah Nayla sadar dan memilih memberontak? Ataukah dia tetap memilih sang suami? Saksikan kisahnya di novel ini.

Rania Keysha Wardhani, seorang dosen filsafat yang dibuat bingung oleh sikap tunangannya. Pria itu terlalu sulit untuk dikenal, meski mereka sudah bersama sejak di bangku sekolah dasar. Ada saja hal yang membuat dirinya bertambah ragu dengan keputusan mereka yang akan segera menikah. Selalu ada cara yang dilakukan pria itu untuk menahannya pergi meski rasa lelah seringkali muncul di hatinya. Ini seperti dia yang berjuang sendirian, dan si pria hanya diam memperhatikan. Padahal kenyataannya, tidak ada yang perlu diperjuangkan dalam hubungan mereka. *** "Kamu hanya perlu diam, duduk, dan menunggu." Laki-laki itu memberi perintah. Rania terdiam. Menunggu katanya? Berapa waktu lagi yang harus dia habiskan untuk menunggu? Apa belasan tahun itu belum cukup bagi laki-laki ini? Dan apa yang harus dia tunggu lagi kali ini? Rasanya, semua sia-sia.