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Kalah menjadi abu. Menang menjadi arang. Ini adalah kisah tentang pertikaian sengit di antara para putri yang ikut serta di dalam perebutan mahkota Putri Purba. Tujuh bersaudara yang sedari kecil hidup bersama-sama dengan bahagia, … mulai menjalani hubungan persaudaraan yang kacau nan berantakan, … dikala mahkota yang didamba-damba telah jatuh ke tangan putri yang bahkan sama sekali tak mengharapkan takhta kerajaannya sedari awal. Akankah takhta kembali beralih kepada orang yang sudah seharusnya menerimanya sedari awal? Ataukah sang putri yang dijatuhi bingkaian hiasan kepala terbuat dari logam mulia, lengkap dengan intan dan juga permata itulah, … yang pada akhirnya akan tetap menjadi pemimpin kerajaan? "Apa kau ingin tahu, kesalahan terbesar apa yang pernah dibuat olehku di sepanjang hidupku ini?" Sang putri tertua kerajaan ini, si Putri Mahkota yang bahkan tak dapat menggapai gelaran mahkotanya lagi, Putri Purbararang, … bertanya dengan wajah yang pahit terhadap sang putri baik hati, yang saat ini tengah berdiri berhadapan dengannya diluar sel penjara. "Kesalahan terbesarku adalah, pernah membuat hatiku yang sudah hancur ini, untuk menyayangimu dengan segenap hati …." Dia berucap lirih semacam itu, diiringi dengan lelehan air mata. "… Purbasari." Air mata keputusasaan yang akan senantiasa ia dapatkan, dikala berhasil dikalahkan oleh adik kandungnya sendiri, Putri Purbasari, lagi dan lagi.

Luna Elvira, 18 tahun. karyawan. Ditinggalkan oleh sang ayah membuatnya harus menjadi seorang yang mandiri dan pekerja keras. Ibunya yang memiliki penyakit yang cukup parah, membuatnya harus bekerja dan memaksanya untuk melupakan cita-citanya untuk menjadi dokter. Saat Luna telah diterima bekerja di sebuah restoran, ia malah dicurigai telah menjadi selingkuhan dari pemilik restoran.

Dunianya serasa berantakan dalam semalam, Ayunira Larasti diceraikan sekaligus dijual oleh mantan suaminya, sebagai alat penebus hutang terhadap teman lamanya yang merupakan seorang konglomerat ternama. Kaget dan juga belum bisa menerima kalau ia harus mau dinikahi oleh konglomerat itu, yakni Kenan Adijaya, sebagai ganti rugi hutang yang dipinjam berpuluh-puluh juta oleh mantan suaminya tersebut, Ayunira berakhir membenci sang suami baru. Akankah cinta hinggap kembali di lembaran hidupnya yang baru? Atau, Ayunira akan berusaha bersabar tinggal bersama Kenan, sembari menanti hari terbebasnya ia begitu hutang mantan suaminya lunas?

Charles Jansen's true love returns to the country in my seventh year with him. The first post on her social media after she lands is an intimate photo of them together. She captions it, "I'm glad we've come full circle." Only then do I find out the ring hidden in the living room isn't for me. Charles' proposal isn't for me, either. Suddenly, I feel exhausted.

Being the only child to the Queen of Castle Grey, lost within the confines of mount Trenon, Kilvic is made to learn a number of things best suited to the heir to the Elzcrid bloodline at the hands of tutors handpicked by his mother. However, his fifteenth birthday sends him beyond the reaches of his mother’s domain. She has tasked him with the duty of learning more. Understanding greater things than she can teach him, greater things with which to cope with the curse upon his bloodline as she had been taught by her father and mother. Finding himself in a new kingdom, in an academy designed for only the most elite of mages, Kilvic is tasked to survive the new things he will come to learn, while struggling with the chaos of human association, as he comes to understand that while he may know a great deal about the world from the castle archives, it is a different thing to experience them. The association between people isn’t as easily deciphered as the books made them seem. As he struggles with the task of becoming a mage and a student along with surviving new friendships, failure threatens him at every turn and people prove pettier than the books would have him believe. Yet, despite all these, somewhere hidden in the shadows of the kingdom, a creature stirs, taking from the academy the one thing it values most. Kilvic must survive the trials of the academy, keep his friends, best his first enemy, and ensure that what stirs must not cause more damage than the kingdom can bear, lest the supremacy of Castle Grey be called into question in realms beyond that which most know. And all in time to attend the Winter Hall Fest.

"Some books are meant to be read, while others are to be put away." Francesca Johnson, unaware of her true identity, lives her life like every normal girl, until one day, she awakes in a strange land where she is princess and has a big duty to perform. It dawns on her that all she has been reading in a fantasy book are not mere fiction but her life's story. Things get even more complicated when she meets Rio — the runaway alpha — whose dark secrets and past deeds threaten their relationship. How will Francesca survive in this whole new world with lot of secrets and evil?

After reclaiming the throne that is rightfully hers, Morrigan's name went down in the history books of Hymir as the youngest and the queen who spilled blood the day of her coronation. Everyone knows about her ruthless act when she finally reclaimed the throne causing fear all over the kingdom towards her. But the facade of a ruthless and fearsome queen is a defense mechanism she built for no one to use and abuse her again. After all the traumatic experiences she had behind the tall walls of the castle, she will never let people use her again and the only person she trusts in her life is her loyal aide, Colfre.

Since young, Dione Amaris has always been fascinated by supernatural creatures; vampires, fairies, werewolves and many more. Her mother always read her stories about them. Until she turn to a fully grown woman, she has collected a lot of books about them and would still read them time to time and she ends reading a book, she can’t help but think if they really do exist. And what if… they really do exist? And one of its kind has been by her side all along? Will it be a start to a something new to her life? Or… it’ll start a havoc in her life?

"Some GoodNovel writers and readers are wondering what it would be like for two writers on the platform to fall in love. This is actually funny, some agreed it was possible, others believed it wasn't possible. But what if it actually happens between the both of us." ****** Olivia is a nerd who gets bullied at school by the captain of the football team, his squads and her classmates. Writing has always been her passion, things changed for her when she got an offer for her books by a writing platform. What happens when she suddenly catches the attention of the most popular writer on the platform's group chat on Face-book? What happens when she is being asked to tutor her bully?

*Book 3* Yildiz was created by the Goddess Zarseti for one purpose: to uphold truth and justice in the supernatural world. Unlike her sisters, Yildiz came into being blind, but she sees beyond what others can. For tens of thousands of years, she and her sisters continued their duties as the Delegation, but life just got more interesting for Yildiz. She learns her creator blessed her, of all people, with a soulmate – an unwilling soulmate at that. Darkness surrounds this mystery man, but he is far more than he seems. Yildiz finds herself pushed away at every turn, but she's never been known to give up her pursuits. Will she capture his heart and unravel his secrets? Or will she be consumed by the darkness and left heartbroken? *Excerpt* "Is this the part where you say you'd die for me?" "Death is easy. It's brief and over in an instant, but living? Living is hard and living for eternity is even harder. So no, I won't die for you… I'd live for you." A Queen Among Blood is the third book in the Queen Among series. Each story is set up in the previous book, so reading the books in order is recommended. Here are the books in the series: A Queen Among Alphas - Book 1 Bite-Size Luna - A Queen Among Alphas Prequel A Queen Among Snakes - Book 2 Runaway Empress - A Queen Among Snakes Prequel A Queen Among Blood - Book 3 Whole Again - A Queen Among Alpha's spin-off A Queen Among Darkness - Book 4 Dark Invocation - A Queen Among Darkness spin-off A Queen Among Tides - Book 5 Valor, Virtue, and Verve - A Queen Among Tides Prequel Spin-off A Queen Among Gods - Book 6 A Queen Among Tempests - Book 7