Dead Set

Dekapanmu terasa nyata. Pun dengan aroma tubuh yang sudah kuhapal dengan sungguh-sungguh. Ini memang hanya sekadar mimpi. Namun, mengapa kamu tak pernah bosan menjadi bunga tidurku di setiap malam? Tolonglah. Hatiku tidak sekuat itu. Aku takut mencintaimu. Aku takut mencintai lelaki yang sebenarnya ... tidak pernah ada. - Azura Jasmine. ______________________________________ Sejak masih berusia 19 tahun, Azura selalu memimpkan seorang lelaki asing. Lelaki itu datang di mimpinya nyaris setiap malam. Namun, betapa mengejukan saat tiba-tiba lelaki itu muncul secara nyata di hadapannya. Mungkin ini terdengar mustahil. Namun, lelaki itu benar-benar ada dan menjadi penyelamat Azura dalam situasi bahaya. Namanya Gavin Stewart, seorang arsitek landscape yang menjadi pelindung setelah kematian tragis kedua orang tua Azura. Pertemuan takdir yang mengejutkan membuat mereka terjebak dalam serangkaian masalah yang tidak mudah. Dengan mimpi sebagai petunjuk dan cinta sebagai kekuatan, dapatkah Azura dan Gavin menemukan kebahagiaan yang mereka impikan?

Semua berawal dari Jihan yang menginap di rumah Septi dan Wisnu. Jihan merasa tertekan oleh keluarganya karena tidak kunjung hamil. Mengingat suaminya, Brata mengalami penyakit hiprotroid yang membuat benihnya sulit untuk membuahi. Namun seminggu sepulang dari rumah Septi dan Wisnu, Jihan mengabarkan bahwa dirinya hamil. Tentu berita yang sangat membahagiakan sekaligus menggemparkan. Terutama Wisnu yang teringat dengan kejadian sore itu bersama dengan Jihan, ketika Septi pergi. Mungkinkah itu anak dari Wisnu?

Violeta Luvena atau biasa disapa Ve adalah seorang pegawai di Bintang Copy Center (BCC), sebuah jasa fotocopyan yang sudah besar dan memiliki cabang dimana-mana. Ve harus menelan kenyataan pahit karena Danu, kekasih yang mana rekan satu kerjaan berpaling pada karyawan baru. Mirisnya lagi selama ini Danu hanya kasihan dan menganggap Ve sebagai selingan saja. Hubungan mereka berdua yang sudah diketahui banyak orang termasuk para pelanggan setia tentunya membuat Ve malu. Terlebih Danu dengan terang-terangan menunjukkan kemesraan dengan kekasih barunya itu. Revan Healvito yang lebih akrab disapa Vito adalah seorang mahasiswa kedokteran yang sedang menjalani koas. Dia salah satu pelanggan tetap dan sudah kenal dekat dengan para pegawai BCC. Merasa iba dengan nasib Ve, Vito menawarkan sebuah kerjasama yang tentunya akan menguntungkan bagi Ve maupun Vito sendiri. Apakah kerjasama tersebut?

My family home accidentally catches on fire, and my father risks his life to save my sister. He ends up with severe burns and urgently needs a blood transfusion to save his life. I'm not in the vicinity, so I ask my fiancé to help. He tells me the hospital doesn't have enough blood stored and mobilizes the city's blood banks—he does it to save my sister, who only has minor burns. Leonard Gallagher shows up when I'm at my most desperate. He takes 600ml of my blood and rushes back to my hometown. Meanwhile, I pass out by the roadside due to severe blood loss. When I wake up, Leonard tells me my father has died due to significant blood loss. I'm disfigured after knocking my head on a sharp rock. He holds my bandaged face tenderly and tells me he'll use his life to make it up to me. After three years of marriage, I'm six months pregnant when I lose consciousness and need to be rescued. That's when I overhear Leonard's conversation with a doctor. "It's been three years. Can we do the skin grafting procedure again? Zoe needs it for her cosmetic surgery." "Mrs. Gallagher has recovered very well, so it's okay to proceed with the procedure. However, even if she's Ms. Lore's sister, there's still a chance of rejection." "Her blood already flows in Zoe's veins—what does the skin matter? It's already the second time, anyway." It turns out the help I've given on the brink of death only leads to Zoe Lore's enhanced beauty. To Leonard, I'm nothing but a source of flesh and blood for Zoe. I'm tired. I think it's time to be reunited with my father.

Anastasia Wellington was betrayed by a friend, family, and even the person she called her husband. She caught her husband cheating on her with her friend, and she swore not to get divorced because to her that was the best way to not let them have the last laugh, but she didn't see the greatest betrayal coming. She was framed for murdering her father-in-law, and she became the most hated person in the whole country at the time, and when she was being transported to the station she encountered an accident but her husband's scheme was revealed on her dying bed. She wanted to avenge her death so at her dying moments she asked for a second chance desperately, but wasn't that wish too glamorous?

He slays, he kills, he rules, those who defiles his order faces greater consequences than death, he is gruesome. His presence alone is so domineering. He is Nathan Greene and most of all, the deadliest mafia king.

Everything that she could remember was that she had dropped dead and fell face first at the grand staircase that she was descending. Cause of death? unknown She thought she will be going straight to the reincarnation pool at the heavens, but who would have thought that she had already used up her 10 lifetimes, and each life ended with her suddenly dying at the same age of 25. And each time, she would have no idea how she died. Aggrieved, wronged, and unwilling! Who wouldn't be? After thousands of years doing missions, leveling up, fighting monsters and kinds of stuff, she finally became a Goddess, excited as to finally, she could take a rest. "Go to these worlds, do tasks, save planets, conquer tribes, build things and etc. Do something, earn respect from the undead, and gather believers among the living."

"Sa paglubog ng araw, ang liwanag ay naglalaho. Katulad ng mga ngiting sa kalungkutan natatago." Si Maureen Cruz ay isang masayahin na tao. Kahit na lumaki siya na hindi nakukuha ang lahat ng kanyang ninanais ay hindi iyon naging dahilan upang hindi yakapin at bigyan ng halaga ang buhay na mayroon siya. Primarya lamang ang kanyang natapos, at hindi na siya nakapag-aral pa dahil sa kahirapan. Gayunpaman, ginamit niya ang lahat ng kanyang mga pinagdaanan upang lumaban ng patas sa hamon ng buhay. Hanggang saan siya susubukin at dadalhin ng kanyang matapang na personalidad kung pag-ibig na ang sumukat sa kanyang dignidad? Mapanindigan kaya niya ang pag-ibig na itinanim nito sa kanyang puso at diwa? Hanggang kailan? Tunghayan ang k’wentong pag-ibig ng isang babaeng magtuturo, kung gaano kaganda ang buhay mula sa likod ng takipsilim. DISCLAIMER: No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the author's consent. Please obtain permission. Names, Characters, Places and Incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. ️ WARNING ️ It may contain mature scenes and words. Read at your own risk.

Moving to Washington from Texas to live with her mother's new family, which includes a stepfather and seven stepbrothers, Katherine braces herself for building walls and embracing isolation. But she doesn’t expect to run into the man she had a one-night stand with just a few days ago in Texas, and he is one of her stepbrothers. Trying to resist his charm, she finds that one look from him sends her heart racing. However, he’s not the only one with that effect on her—each of her seven stepbrothers begins to show interest in her, and she can’t help but feel drawn to all of them. Can she survive in a house with her seven deadly stepbrothers?

"Gale Warm, what the Warm family owes me is for you to pay!" Shawn Wood threw Gale Warm into a mental hospital, tortured and humiliated. Two years later, he married her. "Don't be delusional, you are just here to atone for your family sins." He hated her, and only wanted to bully her.Gale Warm endured it while searching for the truth, and proved her family's innocence. Later, Gale Warm threw the evidence on Shawn Wood's face. "I never owed you." Later, Shawn  Wood turned pale overnight. He whispered in her ear day and night. "Gale, don't leave me. Otherwise, I won’t be able to live..." "Shawn Wood, how dare you threaten me!" "How dare I? You wouldn’t want our children to have no father, would you?"