Circle Seventeen

Sebuah pesta pernikahan yang diadakan oleh seorang janda muda bernama Delia Anastasya, bersama seorang duda anak satu bernama Erlan, kini hancur berantakan. Acara mereka diporandakan oleh beberapa orang berperawakan tegap. Delia merasa shock dengan kejadian ini. Ia juga bingung, siapa yang berani menghancurkan acara mereka. Hingga sesosok pria keluar, dan tersenyum sinis ke arah mereka. Dia bernama Defano Narendra. Siapakah dia? Apakah motif dibalik perbuatannya ini?

Alan Sanders tidak percaya bahwa di dunia ini masih ada yang namanya pelelangan manusia. Itu merupakan tradisi paling primitif dan sangat mengerikan yang pernah ditemui Alan. Di sana ia bertemu dengan Meyra, seorang wanita cantik yang akan dilelang pada hari itu. Anehnya, Meyra yang menurut Alan memiliki banyak kelebihan dibandingkan gadis lainnya malah dihargai dengan harga paling murah dari semua peserta lelang. Alan ingin membuat Meyra terbebas dari situasi buruk itu. Hati nuraninya tidak bisa membiarkan hal tersebut terjadi. Sayangnya, untuk bisa membawa Meyra keluar dari sana, selain membayarnya dengan harga yang mahal, Alan juga harus menikahi wanita itu. Sebuah syarat gila! Pernikahan tidak ada dalam pikirannya saat ini. Lagi pula, siapa yang menikah dengan cara seperti itu? Ikuti kisah mereka di novel ini.

This marks the third year since Alan Cohen and I became mates, and today's finally the day of the Luna ceremony. As the ceremony begins, Alan takes my hand. But then he hesitates, refusing to move forward. I'm still trying to make sense of it when my adoptive sister, Eden Parker, suddenly breaks into the mind-link. She says she's just ended a failed mate bond with another Alpha and will be back within the hour. That's when I see a flicker of a smile on Alan's face. Then, without a second glance, he lets go of my hand and walks away. I turn to my adoptive brother, Dexter Parker, and my adoptive father, Hank Parker, hoping for some kind of comfort, only to realize they've already left the ceremony with Alan. And just like that, I became the joke of the entire pack. Eden sends me a photo. She's glowing beside Alan, her arm looped through Dexter's, with Hank beaming next to them. That's when I give up. I reach out through the mind-link to my birth father. "Dad, I'm ready to return to the Bloodmoon Pack."

After a wild, drunken class reunion, I woke up next to a male model. I had no clue what I was doing since it was my first time in this kind of situation. I called my best friend for help on what to do, and while the male model was still out cold, I left my wallet and bolted. When I got home, my best friend dragged me over to show me a picture of her new boyfriend. My jaw dropped. The guy in the photo was the spitting image of the man I had just left.

In the hunting ground, my mate, Liam Graham, abandons me while I am pregnant and severely injured from a beast attack. He rushes off carrying Beta Eva Monroe, who only has a scratch on her palm. I cry out for him to stay, but he says Eva needs medical attention more than I do. As blood pours between my legs, I anxiously swallow the prenatal pills Liam gave me. But in the next second, my child is gone forever. It turns out the pills are not meant to protect my baby but a slow-acting poison that kills it. At that moment, Eva proudly sends me a message. "Being his Beta means I get the Alpha's care anytime I want." Feeling my body grow weaker from the miscarriage, I glance one last time at the baby, who has become a pool of blood. At that moment, I want nothing more. At night, I reach out to my father through a mind link. "Dad, I agree to become the heir of the Howl of the Moon Pack."

Three years ago, during our marking ceremony, my fated mate suddenly proposed to my stepsister, Ashley Calisto. When I was publicly humiliated, Owen Wagner, Alpha of the pack and president of the Wolf Alliance, started to pursue me obsessively. A few months later, I became his Luna. He has treated me with great care and tenderness for the past three years. That is, until I get pregnant and accidentally overhear his secret conversation with a witch. "I need a potion that will kill the pup in her womb without her noticing," Owen says. The witch asks in confusion, "Alpha Owen, why don't you want this heir?" Owen replies coldly, "The only one worthy of bearing my pup is Ashley. This entire thing had been orchestrated to protect Ashley anyway." So, all this tenderness has just been part of a carefully crafted lie. If that's the case, I'll let them have each other.

My fiance, Henry Gordon, was two hours late to our vows on our wedding day. Just as he was catching his breath and about to say ‘I do’, he received a call from his secretary, Yvonne Luther. After hanging up, he looked at me apologetically. “Honey, my useless team can’t handle the personnel appointment of the financial team on their own. They’re insisting that I head back! I’ll make it up to you with another wedding later on.” I told him that I understood though I felt disappointed, because he was at a critical stage in his career. However, the moment he left without hesitation, I tossed the ring on my finger into the venue’s flower bed and announced to everyone that the wedding was cancelled. I had to see for myself who would ask Henry, a mere minority shareholder, to make such a significant decision without consulting me, the chairperson. He did not know that just a few hours earlier, I had taken back the ‘gift’ I gave him and reclaimed my position as the company’s chairperson.

Kyrana adalah mahasiswa tahun ketiga berumur 19 tahun di ITB yang mengambil jurusan DKV. Ia terkenal sebagai primadona di angkatannya. Bukan hanya karena kesempurnaan fisik, tapi juga karena sifat dan kepribadiannya yang membuat orang-orang mayoritas menyukainya. Meski begitu, ia dikenal sebagai orang yang berteman dengan siapa saja. Ia tak punya circle, ia tak punya sahabat. Ia adalah orang yang selalu terlihat sendirian. Raka, mahasiswa tahun akhir jurusan IT di ITB, memiliki julukan yang berkebalikan dengan Kyra. Jika Kyra adalah matahari, maka Raka adalah bulan. Ia pendiam, terkesan dingin dan suram, dan tak banyak yang menyukai kepribadiannya itu. Ia selalu berkeliaran bersama sahabatnya, Vino. Dan, dibalik kesuramannya itu, ia adalah mahasiswa berprestasi dan terbaik di angkatannya. Pertemuan pertama mereka adalah ketidaksengajaan, ketika Raka melihat Kyra diganggu oleh lima lelaki tak dikenal di luar lingkungan kampus. Meski awalnya Raka ingin membiarkan, tapi akhirnya ia tetap membantu. Dan, pertemuan kedua mereka adalah ketika orang tua mereka memperkenalkan mereka dalam perjodohan. Dan, penilaian Kyra dan Raka terhadap satu sama lain berubah drastis. Raka seperti bangsawan, sementara Kyra seperti boneka yang dikendalikan orang tuanya. Tak punya perasaan satu sama lain, mereka mencoba untuk berpacaran lebih dulu untuk saling kenal. Saat itulah, Raka tahu bagaimana Kyra sebenarnya. Raka yang iba pun mulai mencintai Kyra dan bermaksud untuk menikahi Kyra untuk menyelamatkannya, juga untuk menjalin kerja sama perusahaan kedua keluarga. Dan, Kyra yang semula pasrah pada hidupnya, perlahan mulai mengenal tujuan hidup semenjak mengenal Raka. Namun, apakah Kyra dapat mewujudkan keinginannya untuk hidup panjang umur bersama Raka? Apakah Raka dapat membahagiakan Kyra dan membuatnya panjang umur? Karena, sebenarnya umur Kyra diperkirakan hanya sampai 20 tahun karena penyakit jantung bawaan yang dideritanya.

Setiap orang menginginkan pernikahan yang berlandaskan cinta. Tapi aku malah dijodohkan dengan wanita biasa saja, yang mana dia tidak pula satu circle dengan sejarah keluargaku......

The Nation of Gryaz has fallen, crushed under the foot and the flying cities of The Empire.Red_Two, a scientist forced to recreate the technologies that had failed him, learns about the Time Travel Project, and makes a vow to steal the device to save himself, and potentially undo the destruction of his home nation. But as he travels into the past, and meets the kindest man and scientist that he has ever known, will Red_Two be able to truly carry out his original goals, considering what is at stake if he does so?Will the spy that he meets let him, or will she simply destroy his world, as he once destroyed hers?