Best Alan Furst Novel

The first thing I do after being reborn is dump my devoted boyfriend and immediately say yes to the obsessive man's pursuit. In my past life, my so-called best friend, Sarah Cole, bound herself to an app that could transfer all of my boyfriend's love for me to her. My boyfriend was Luke Spencer. The golden roses he prepared for me ended up with her. The hotel he bought for me suddenly had her name on the deed. The way he looked at me shifted from fierce desire to cold disdain, but when he turned to her, his eyes overflowed with the tenderness I once knew so well. When I cried and demanded to know why Luke had changed, he just looked at me with disgust as he spat, "We broke up a long time ago. Leave my girlfriend alone!" On my birthday, Sarah went live online, flaunting how Luke had rented out the entire amusement park for her. Fireworks lit up the sky behind her in a blaze of color. And me? They worked together to have me thrown into a mental hospital. They called me a crazy woman obsessed with someone who never loved me back, and in endless rounds of electroshock therapy and forced medication, I died in despair. When I open my eyes again, I'm reborn. This time, I no longer feel anything real for my ex-boyfriend. Instead, I play along with Ethan Grant. I find it funny when Sarah opens the app again, siphoning away every drop of Ethan's overwhelming love. I really want to know if she can handle it.

On the fifth anniversary of my marriage to Vicente Buckley, he violated my trust by sleeping with my best friend Kinsley Gilmore, on our bed. Through the camera, my son Jamie Buckley's childish voice sounded. "Kinsley, I'll keep watch at the door. I won't let my mom come in!" As if rewarding him, Kinsley pecked Vicente and suggested, "Your son is great. Don't you think about having another child with Patricia?" Vicente responded by covering her face with a pillow, saying, "The scar on her belly disgusts me."

My best friend, Mira Bolton, got into an online relationship with three rich men while impersonating me. One of them was an heir to an extremely wealthy family, the second one was a domineering pilot, while the last one was a cold and aloof professor who taught medicine. In order to siphon money from them, Mira told them that she wanted to marry them, but they'd have to pay her family three million dollars each as a form of monetary gift. After they agreed to Mira's proposal, she used my ID to register in three different marriages with them at respective times. Mira was terrified that she'd suffer from a fate worse than death when her wrongdoings were exposed. Right after she received the money, she told them she had cancer and needed to fly overseas to get it treated. That was how she disappeared with millions of dollars under her name. Eventually, they tracked me down using the information from my ID card. Daniel Newton, the rich heir, asked me icily, "Didn't you fly overseas to get your cancer treated?" I looked very confused by his question. Only then did they realize they had gotten tricked by Mira. Enraged, Daniel had me kidnapped and thrown into a rural village all the way in the mountains. Kevin Luther, the pilot, broke my legs and told me that I could forget about escaping from the mountains forever. Felix McQuinn, the professor, felt that it wasn't big enough of a punishment for me, so he personally removed my kidney from my body. In the village, I was reduced to a plaything meant for the villagers to toy with. In the end, I caught STDs and died in a filthy pig pen. When I wake up again, I've returned after Mira stole my identity and got into a relationship with them.

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Amel adalah karyawan baru di sebuah perusahaan. Pesonanya dapat membuat banyak lelaki suka dengannya. Bahkan, empat sahabat lelakinya jatuh hati pada Amel. Semua kebaikan teman lelakinya, Amel respon dengan baik. Sampai, Eni, sahabat Amel, bertanya hatinya tertuju pada siapa. Tapi Amel selalu menjawab, jika semua hanya teman saja. Pada akhirnya, Amel mengumumkan acara pernikahannya. Apakah Amel memilih di antara empat lelaki itu, atau justru Amel memilih orang lain?

My best friend, Yara Campbell, got reborn back to the day she was to reunite with the richest family in town, the Waltons. She didn't want to relive her fate as the Waltons' marionette that was trapped in a gilded cage, so she refused to go home with them. That was why she didn't hesitate to push me out instead. As I gazed at Grace Robinson, whose fingers were adorned with diamond rings, and Raymond Walton, who looked like he was made of money, I instantly rushed toward them. There was no way I'd let this golden opportunity slip through my fingers, after all! Five years later, Yara shows up on the Walters' doorstep with a paternity test report in her hands. She then demands that I be cast out of the family. But she's too late. In the past five years, I'm no longer the replacement she had used on a whim back then. Now, I'm the second-in-command in Walton Group. No one in this family can possibly usurp my position from me now.

Her name was Cathedra. Leave her last name blank, if you will. Where normal people would read, "And they lived happily ever after," at the end of every fairy tale story, she could see something else. Three different things. Three words: Lies, lies, lies. A picture that moves. And a plea: Please tell them the truth. All her life she dedicated herself to becoming a writer and telling the world what was being shown in that moving picture. To expose the lies in the fairy tales everyone in the world has come to know. No one believed her. No one ever did. She was branded as a liar, a freak with too much imagination, and an orphan who only told tall tales to get attention. She was shunned away by society. Loveless. Friendless. As she wrote "The End" to her novels that contained all she knew about the truth inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, she also decided to end her pathetic life and be free from all the burdens she had to bear alone. Instead of dying, she found herself blessed with a second life inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, and living the life she wished she had with the characters she considered as the only friends she had in the world she left behind. Cathedra was happy until she realized that an ominous presence lurks within her stories. One that wanted to kill her to silence the only one who knew the truth.

Jaka adalah remaja biasa, seperti halnya anak laki-laki lain seusianya. Perceraian orang tuanya membuat hari-harinya dipenuhi dengan rasa kesepian dan keheningan. Hingga suatu hari, sebuah kecelakaan tragis merenggut nyawanya. Bingung dan kehilangan arah, jiwa Jaka terperangkap di sebuah persimpangan antara dunia orang hidup dan kematian. Namun, Azrael - Sang Malaikat Kematian, menyampaikan bahwa Jaka belum bisa melewati gerbang akhirat karena masih ada satu keinginan duniawi yang belum terselesaikan dan menahan jiwanya. Dalam perjalanannya untuk menyelesaikan urusan yang tertinggal, Jaka bertemu dengan teman-teman tak terduga — Dimas, Sisil, Briga, dan Awan — masing-masing dengan cerita, luka, dan kekuatan mereka sendiri. Akankah Jaka akhirnya mampu memasuki pintu akhirat dengan bantuan teman-temannya? Atau haruskah ia terjebak selamanya di antara batas kehidupan dan kematian?

Ratri, seorang perempuan muda, pernah punya rumah tangga bahagia bersama suaminya. Namun, sejak sang suami hilang entah kemana dan meninggalkannya bersama anak kecil yang harus ia besarkan, hidupnya berubah drastis. Tekanan ekonomi membuat Ratri terpaksa memilih jalan yang tidak pernah ia bayangkan: menjadi pekerja seks. Setiap malam ia menjual tubuhnya di balik gemerlap lampu jalan, tapi setiap fajar ia menangis dalam doa. Di balik dosa yang ia lakukan, hatinya terus berbisik—mengingat Tuhan, menyesali diri, dan berharap ada jalan pulang. Novel ini bercerita tentang pergulatan batin seorang perempuan yang berada di persimpangan: antara kebutuhan hidup dan panggilan iman, antara luka masa lalu dan harapan masa depan. Meski jalannya gelap, ia terus mencari sisa cahaya untuk kembali menemukan dirinya yang sejati.

Bercerita tentang seorang remaja cantik, pintar, dan ceria yang mendapat sebuah tantangan dari permainan konyol, bagaimana mungkin Gladis harus menembak Galang yang notabennya kakak kelas yang di sukainya sejak awal dirinya masuk SMA. Gladis memang suka kepada Galang, tetatapi sikap Galang yang dingin membuat Gladis takut untuk mendekatinya. Ditambah lagi Galang yang notabennya most wanted dengan otak cerdas dan wajah tampan yang membuatnya banyak dikejar-kejar siswi SMA Galaksi membuat Gladis tambah tidak percaya diri untuk menyatakan perasaannya. Akankah Gladis melaksanakan tantangan tersebut?