Arti Foolish

The night my parents died, I was found amongst the ashes of our home. My eyes glowed red, and my hair had been altered to a flaming hue to match. My pack ostracised me, deeming me responsible for the death of my beloved parents. For years, I have been treated like a slave and was underfed, bullied, and abused. The son of the Alpha, Jordan, and my cousin Ruth were the worst offenders. Yet, I endured as I planned my escape. When I turn nineteen, I am out of here. Or so I thought. One night, out of the blue, Jordan kisses me, everything changes, and I find myself falling in love with the one who was my tormentor. So naive, so foolish, just when I think I will have a happy ending, reality slaps me in the face. The same night I find myself in the arms of my mate, Jordan, I find myself rejected for a nightmare of a betrayal I had no hope in preventing. As punishment, I was shunned in the worst possible way and turned rouge. As the cold seeps in, I dream of a white wolf—my white wolf. He has always appeared in my mind when I most needed him, his presence always comforting me. Is this the end of my story? I have lost hope and the will to live.

Isn’t it funny how love works? I have always loved Dreston, and he has always been the one for me—my first love. As a child, I loved him, as a teenager, nothing changed. And now, even as his wife, I still couldn’t love him any less. But he only ever loved Tina—my teenage best friend. She came into our lives and didn’t just take him away from me. She took my happiness, my laughter, and even the girl I used to be. I still remember her words to me: “You knew he was mine, yet you married him.” She made me feel like I was the villain. Maybe I was foolish to believe that love alone would bring him back to me. But nothing changed. He would always love her. I finally gave up the day I signed the divorce papers. I learned to let go, to move on, and to start fresh. And just when I had finally decided to start my life again—just when the universe rewarded me with a man who loved me unconditionally… Dreston came running back. Now he wants a second chance.

Di sebuah kota yang jarang tidur, Nadia, seorang wanita karier berusia 28 tahun, menjalani hidupnya dengan ambisi besar. Namun, di balik pencapaiannya, ada kehampaan yang tak bisa ia pahami. Hingga suatu malam, ia bertemu dengan Reza—seorang pria penuh misteri dengan tatapan yang sulit diabaikan. Percakapan mereka yang awalnya biasa perlahan berubah menjadi permainan penuh godaan. Malam semakin larut, dan batas antara logika serta hasrat mulai memudar. Nadia terhanyut dalam pengalaman yang mengguncang tubuh dan pikirannya. Namun, di balik keintiman itu, ada rahasia besar yang disembunyikan Reza. Apakah pertemuan mereka hanya sekadar pelampiasan, ataukah malam itu menjadi awal dari sesuatu yang lebih dalam? Novel ini bukan hanya menghadirkan kisah penuh gairah, tetapi juga menyelami perjalanan psikologis tokoh dalam memahami kebebasan, hasrat, dan arti keintiman yang sesungguhnya.

Fae’s been in love with Carl Easton for a long time. Orphaned by her mother when she was two and by her father when she was fourteen, she was fostered by the wealthy Eastons until she was eighteen. Fast-forward ten years, Fae attends a wedding and watches Carl marry her snake of a bestfriend. That night, she begs Carl's best buddy Jigo to help her forget. Hands down, he is the most gorgeous, sexiest man she has ever met. He is way out of her league and she will never have the guts to proposition him if she isn't drunk. Stoic and brooding, wealthier and more successful than Carl, he vibes power. She can never guess he was such a molten lava of emotions and the sweetest teddy bear behind closed doors. She spends part of the weekend in his bed then ran from him before she can get addicted to his brand of passion. She needs the distraction but he is more than she can ever dream of. It is foolish to hope for more. But he appears in her doorstep and seduces her to make him her willing rebound for as long as she needs him. No way will he let her go until they are done. And they spiral so fast that Fae can’t tell where distraction ends and falling in love begins…

Everyone says no one has ever seen an Alpha as devoted as Kane Walker. The Alpha of the Black Rock Pack. The heir to the Walker empire. The man every she-wolf envies me for. To the world, ours is the kind of love story people dream about. For three years, he has treated me like something precious. He remembers everything I like, shields me from every slight, and loves me so carefully that even I almost forgot the truth. No one knows that years ago, Kane Walker was the one who ruined me. He led the cruelty that drove me out of the Inter-Pack Academy and left scars I never truly healed from. Then, three years ago, at the Alliance Rite of Adulthood, he found me again. He looked at me once and decided he wanted me. What followed was pursuit, obsession, and promises I was foolish enough to trust. In the end, I became his mate. His Luna. And little by little, I started to believe the boy who once destroyed me was gone. Until the day I found a hidden file in his private records. My name was on it. And beneath it were the words that turned my blood cold: Ella Observation Plan — Initiated.

Maddox: It started out innocent and sweet. The kind of love story where the good guy might finally win the girl. But that all went to shit when I gave into the thought that she might actually want me back. My foolish naivety is what broke me and another’s betrayal is what damned me. Love turned to anger and anger morphed into obsession and now…Well now I am powerful enough to twist fate to make her mine. Lies and deceit plague our once pure friendship as I take and take, stopping at nothing to get what I want. And what I want is her. Lana: This isn’t how this was supposed to go. I was supposed to choose one of my best friends to be my mate after they came back from Alpha training. Except that only one of them came back. The other exiled, left for dead and abandoned to the wild. That was just the first of many pitfalls that led to all my freedom and choices being stripped from me. By the time I discovered who the problem was I was already caught in his dark web and now I fear he won't ever let me go. I am trapped by a mate bond that was forced on me. But I'll be damned if I submit just because I’m his Luna.

Raga, pria berusia 25 tahun, memilih hidup sederhana sebagai penjaga sebuah kos putri di pinggiran kota. Di mata orang lain, ia hanyalah pemuda biasa yang bekerja demi menyambung hidup. Tak ada yang tahu, Raga menyimpan masa lalu kelam yang membuatnya menyingkir dari kehidupan sebelumnya. Hari-harinya terlihat tenang, hingga kedatangan para penghuni baru mengubah segalanya. Gadis manja, janda muda, hingga wanita pekerja keras—semuanya tinggal di bawah atap yang sama, dengan rahasia dan kehangatan masing-masing. Godaan datang tanpa henti. Senyum samar, lirikan penuh arti, dan momen-momen intim yang tak sengaja tercipta membuat Raga harus berjuang menahan diri. Namun semakin ia menolak, semakin kuat tarikan yang menyeretnya ke dalam hubungan terlarang dengan para penghuni kos. Bisakah Raga bertahan menjaga batas, atau justru tenggelam dalam gairah liar yang siap membakar dirinya?

Terkadang cinta itu datang tanpa alasan, kemudian bertahan di ruang hati tanpa seorang pun mampu menghalangi. Terkadang harta hanya sebagai pelengkap dunia tanpa arti, ketika terkalahkan oleh rasa yang sulit dimengerti. Terkadang tahta bukan lagi suatu kebanggaan yang patut dipuja ketika sesuatu yang lebih mulia menguasai jiwa. Pramudya. Karena prestasi dan dedikasinya yang tinggi sebagai seorang tenaga pengamanan sebuah hotel, ia mendapat tugas khusus mengawal seorang artis segudang sensasi bernama Aura Cinta Anastasia. Ternyata bukan perkara mudah menghadapi arogansi Cinta yang setinggi gunung berapi. Berkat kesabaran dan ketenangan jiwa yang stabil, ia mampu mereduksi segala kelakuan Cinta yang selalu mengundang kontroversi. Namun, ketika cinta tumbuh diantara keduanya yang berbeda strata, siapa yang patut dipersalahkan? Sanggupkah Pramudya dan Cinta mempertahankan perasaan suci itu di saat berbagai misteri masa lampau terkuak?

Di sebuah dunia fiksi zaman dahulu, Desa Cindua menjadi saksi perjalanan seorang pemuda bernama Mukhayyam Hafiz yang berjuang menemukan jati dirinya sebagai pemimpin tanpa takhta. Dibesarkan oleh orang tuanya, Rasyid Ghazali dan Syarifah Azurah, Mukhayyam tumbuh sebagai pemuda dengan keberanian besar, tetapi terjebak dalam misteri kitab kuno dan peta rahasia yang diwariskan kepadanya. Dihadapkan pada rahasia kelam di balik Gunung Cindua dan ancaman sosok-sosok misterius, Mukhayyam harus mempelajari ilmu bela diri dan kekuatan batin untuk melindungi desanya. Dalam perjalanannya, ia tidak hanya mempelajari seni bertarung, tetapi juga menemukan arti kepemimpinan sejati, nilai keadilan, dan pengorbanan. Raja Tanpa Takhta adalah kisah epik tentang mimpi, perjuangan, dan kekuatan jiwa yang menginspirasi, penuh dengan intrik, percakapan mendalam, dan aksi mendebarkan. Akankah Mukhayyam berhasil melampaui tantangan yang mengancam dunia yang ia cintai?

Hidup Dina seakan hancur berkeping-keping ketika kebenaran terungkap: Danang, lelaki yang pernah ia percayai sepenuh hati, tega mengkhianati pernikahan mereka. Cinta yang dulu ia rawat dengan air mata dan doa, runtuh hanya karena satu kata—selingkuh. Perceraian itu bukan sekadar perpisahan, melainkan luka yang menggores jiwa, meninggalkan perasaan hampa sekaligus marah yang tak mudah terobati. Namun, di tengah kehancuran itu, Dina harus tetap berdiri. Demi ketiga anaknya yang masih membutuhkan pelukan, ia menelan pil pahit dan menatap dunia dengan mata basah tapi hati yang mulai dikeraskan oleh kenyataan. Dari seorang istri yang dikhianati, ia bertransformasi menjadi seorang ibu yang berjuang sendirian. Kini, setelah semua badai di season pertama kehidupannya, perjalanan baru terbentang di hadapan Dina—perjalanan yang tak hanya menguji kesabarannya, tapi juga keberaniannya untuk kembali percaya pada arti kebahagiaan.