Are Arranged Marriages Still A Thing

WARNING 18+!! Mengandung adegan dewasa dan kekerasan. Harap Bijak dalam memilih bacaan.^^ Stela tak pernah membayangkan menikah dengan seorang penderita Anterograde Amnesia. Kontrak menjadi psikiater pribadi keluarga Oliver, tak hanya membuatnya harus menyamar sebagai sekretaris pribadi dan juga menjadi bodyguard Vincent Oliver. Suatu hari Stela juga diminta untuk menikahi Vincent oleh Nyonya Widya Resmana Oliver. *** Auristela Indira, seorang psikiater muda, ditugaskan menjadi psikiater pribadi Vincent Oliver, seorang CEO di perusahaan broadcast. Suatu kejadian nahas membuat Vincent menderita Anterograde Amnesia, tidak bisa mengingat kejadian sehari sebelumnya. Ternyata Stela tak hanya diminta menjadi psikiater pribadi, tapi juga menyamar menjadi sekretaris sekaligus bodyguard Vincent. Suatu hari, dia diminta untuk menikahi Vincent. Akankah Stela menerima pernikahan dengan Vincent yang memiliki memori singkat? Apa yang sebenarnya terjadi kepada Vincent, sehingga membuatnya tak hanya kehilangan sebagian ingatan, tapi juga kehilangan calon istri di malam menjelang pernikahannya?

As my murderer's claws tear into my abdomen inch by inch, my father and brother are seated in our family's banquet hall. They're celebrating Carly's 18th birthday and coming-of-age. "You'll always be my little girl." "Happy birthday, Carly." They light 18 pink candles for her. On top of the exquisite red velvet cake is a wolf figurine that they carved for her, and there are well wishes and laughter all around. Meanwhile, I'm curled up in a sewer filled with liquid silver as I bleed to death. My phone has been crushed, and I can't get out. I can only cry for help. A few days later, my father and brother show up together at the autopsy room. My brother stands by the operating table with a scalpel. He slices open the body and sews it back up like it's nothing. My father just covers his nose as he shoots a disgusted glance at my body. He urges my brother to hurry up with the autopsy report. "The victim is a young female wolf presumed to be of pure lineage. Before her death, she was subjected to prolonged captivity and torture. Her throat is nearly severed, her cervical spine is dislocated, and her chest cavity has collapsed. She was also injected with liquid silver before death." Hearing the report, my father looks so calm that it's just like a case study of no consequence. Neither of them can recognize that the body belongs to me—their daughter and sister!

I saw myself dying, being killed by the very people I'd sacrificed my life to please. It was agonizing, a lot more than being tortured, having my wolf stolen away, being nibbled piece after piece by rats or the noose hanging around my neck, strangling the life out of me. "Goddess Selene please hear my prayer. Give me a second chance at life to make my enemies pay, to get that which is rightfully mine but this time, please make me the Villainess......." Waking up 5 years before her death, Xithara gets a second chance at life and promises to take down her enemies and get the happy ending she deserves. Now armed with knowledge of the future, she must become the same manipulative bitch she's trying to take down but can fate really be cheated? Can destiny be altered? Especially when all roads might just lead to doom.......

Alka has a special ability to see the unseen, or what you called ghost. Sometimes the lost souls took over his body, that is why he always keeping a necklace from his grandmother to keep him safe from evil spirits. His hobby was traveling. After graduated from university in City of Jewel, he started to write a travel blog, called Psychic Trip. Not an ordinary trip he shared in that blog, because he also shared his mystical experience in his journey. One day, when he visited an old building in City of Rain, he got troubled by someone he met at the club. Not only messed him up the other night, that guy also forced him to deal with the greatest fear he always been avoided. What will Alka do to solve the problem? And what did the man want from Alka?

**Strictly for adults** HANA You don't fall in love with your enemy. If you do, then, be prepared to embrace their dark side and welcome their secrets. Because you don't know them like you know your friends. I left a man at the altar just to fall in love with his brother. We have nothing in common but our damaged soul. It is cruel how you can love a person like that only to find out that it was forbidden, all the way long, and you were forced to fall apart by fate. Our tragic pasts paved way for our beautiful future until his secrets were revealed. I never fit in his world, no one could ever; for he was born to kill, to bring death. From enemies to lovers, hating to loving, strangers to family, then to complete strangers, Hana and Bash are all you need. Their love will make your heart warm, they make you laugh, and their distance makes you cry. Find out more about their forbidden romance. **No incest**

Kesepakatan tetaplah kesepakatan. Lalu bagaimana dengan perasaan yang tumbuh seiring dengan berjalannya waktu? Manakah yang harus diutamakan? Kesepakatan? Atau perasaan? Jika perasaan yang diutamakan, lalu bagaimana dengan kesepakatan tersebut? Dan jika kesepakatan yang diutamakan, bagaimana dengan perasaan yang tumbuh tanpa izin dari si pemilik hati?

The very first thing I do after I come back to life is find a pig and get married to it. In my past life, I was on the brink of getting engaged to my lover of ten years, Anthony Warner, who was a regimental colonel. In order to celebrate my engagement, Hannah Larson, my cousin, gave me a bracelet, and since it was a thoughtful gift from her, I wore it all the time. Yet, on our engagement day, Anthony didn't just call off our engagement, but he also berated me, calling me a tramp and a homewrecker who destroyed his relationship with Hannah. I was completely at a loss and tried to defend myself, but Hannah suddenly stepped forward and burst out crying. "I know my family and educational background surpass yours, but you can't just ruin my relationship with Anthony out of jealousy, Natalie! Anthony and I have already made a lifelong commitment to each other, so please just let it go!" Anthony turned and led Hannah away. They then got engaged shortly afterward. I was left standing there, becoming the subject of gossip from my relatives. They called me a shameless home-wrecker, and their scorn extended to my parents, who were shamed for raising such a child. They eventually took their own lives from all the rumors, and I couldn't bear the pain of losing them, so I ended myself, too. I suddenly open my eyes and find myself returning to the day Hannah presents me with the bracelet.

Allena Maura Mahardian, seorang gadis cantik dan manis yang bekerja di sebuah Cafe di pusat kota Jakarta. Allena adalah karyawan yang sangat rajin dalam bekerja, bahkan ia selalu dipuji oleh pemilik Cafe tersebut. Allena Maura Mahardian adalah gadis yatim piatu, kedua orang tuanya telah meninggal dunia karena sebuah kecelakaan yang direncanakan. Pada saat itu, usianya masih lima belas tahun. Ia sangat sedih mendengar kabar bahwa kedua orang tuanya telah pergi untuk selama-lamanya dan tidak akan kembali lagi. Sejak saat itulah, Allena Maura Mahardian memutuskan untuk mencari pekerjaan dan hidup mandiri karena harta kekayaan kedua orang tuanya telah jatuh ke tangan seorang pria tua sekaligus pembunuh kedua orang tuanya. Setelah dua minggu bekerja di sebuah Cafe, Allena Maura Mahardian kembali mengalami nasib yang sangat buruk. Rekan kerjanya yang sangat membencinya dengan tega menjebak dirinya dan menyerahkannya pada seorang pria yang sangat misterius dan memiliki sifat layaknya seorang iblis. "Kau tidak akan bisa kabur dariku, sayang!" teriak Pria itu. "Aku hanya dijebak dan dijadikan sebagai penebus hutang oleh teman-temanku," ujar Allena Maura Mahardian. "Aku tidak perduli dengan ucapanmu sayang. Kau akan tetap menikah denganku!" tegas Pria itu. "Tolong mengertilah," lirih Allena Maura Mahardian. Air matanya mengalir begitu saja, ia berusaha untuk menolak menikah dengan pria berhati iblis yang berada di hadapannya. "Jangan berbicara lagi sayang. Malam ini juga kita akan menikah jadi persiapkanlah dirimu!" tegas Pria itu. Pria itu pun pergi meninggalkan Allena yang menangis tersedu-sedu. Novel ini akan dilanjut setiap hari

Sebuah hal gila yang Lisa lakukan demi menolong kakak kembarnya lepas dari perjodohan adalah dengan mengorbankan dirinya sendiri. "Pilih antara saya dan Alice"

Jasmine is living a life of hell. Her step father becoming abusive emotionally and physically after the death of her mother. She not only has to deal with him at home, but her fellow students at school. Being bullied and criticized for the lack of clothes she doesn't have. They don't know her step father refuses to buy her anything she needs. Calling her a leech of the earth. Telling her on a daily basis he wishes she had died along side her mother. The only person in her corner is her science teacher Mrs. Mulberry, she see the changes in Jasmines behavior, the marks she tries to hide under her torn clothes. Things take a turn for the worse when Jasmine goes missing for two weeks. Alarming Mrs. Mulberry to call child services. Believing the worst has happened to her. After being put under the microscope Jasmine's step father starts locking her away starving her and barely giving her water to drink out of an applesauce container. In the midst of her agony she meets the new boy at school causing feelings she's never felt before. Will he be her knight in shining armor or will he be the wake of destruction causing her world to crumble more around her.