Dean Thomas

Childhood sweethearts, Ethan and Lily have always harbored secret affections for one another. Yet, misunderstandings lead each to believe the other's heart belongs to another. They spent three years in a loveless marriage. When a sudden car accident jolts their realities, the thought of a life without Lily serves as a catalyst for Ethan to confront his fears and fight for the love he's always desired. Engaged since before they were born, James and Sophia were considered the perfect match. When Sophia's family went bankrupt, everyone expected James to cancel the engagement, but he didn't. They got married, James's distant demeanor created a chasm between them. Receiving pictures of him kissing another woman became the breaking point for Sophia, prompting her to seek a divorce. Now James must find a way to win her heart or he would lose the only light in his life. University power couple, Alexander and Isabella were torn apart by her father's manipulations, sacrificing their love for his future and safety--Isabella broke up with him. Years later, Alexander is no longer the poor boy that could be dismissed. He owns a successful law firm, while Isabella's family faces financial ruin. In a desperate move her father arranges her marriage to Alexander, thrusting them back into each other's lives. As Alexander strives to rekindle their love, Isabella grapples with feeling that she doesn't deserve him.

Blurb : “Maaf! A-anda s-siapa?” Kanaya tersentak dengan mata membulat menyadari ia kini berada bersama seorang pria dewasa asing dalam sebuah kamar tertutup yang cukup mewah. Ia mengamati punggung kekar lelaki yang menatap ke luar jendela dan membelakanginya itu dengan tubuh dan bibir gemetar. Lalu, mengamati ranjang ukuran king size tempat ia terduduk sambil mengatupkan lutut. Lelaki itu bergeming sambil menghisap sebuah cigarret di jemari. Tak berselang lama, asap pekat mengepul ke udara, menerpa rambut model under cut-nya. Asap pekat itupun pecah di udara. Kanaya semakin gentar. Ia berupaya mencari jalan untuk bisa keluar dari tempat itu, atau lari dari lelaki misterius yang terlihat menyeramkan itu. Jantungnya berdegub kencang, tubuhnya gemetar. Ia sadar, saat ini ia sedang berada di tempat yang salah dan di dekat orang yang salah. Perlahan ia beringsut dan melangkah ke arah pintu. Namun, di saat yang sama, lelaki itu berbalik dan menatap Kanaya tajam dan dingin yang menikam. Dua netra bulat Kanaya makin membulat sempurna. “Om, siapa?” tanyanya gugup. *** Viona tidak menyangka dibalik kebahagiaannya hidup bersama Dion, ternyata memicu sebuah petaka beruntun yang harus ia hadapi. Api dalam sekam dendam seorang anak angkat yang ia cintai sepenuh hati, membawa Viona pada petaka demi petaka yang membuat ia kembali terpuruk. Kasih sayang yang ia berikan pada Kanaya tidak sedikitpun meredam dendam masa lalu Kanaya pada ibu sambungnya tersebut. Gadis itu berupaya keras memberikan hukuman yang ia pikir setimpal untuk Viona, karena baginya, Vionalah penyebab ia kehilangan kesempatan bersama ibu kandungnya. Kasih sayang yang selama ini ia rasakan dari Viona baginya hanya sebuah kepalsuan dan sandiwara. Sehingga, ia tega menggiring Vion pada petaka. Hingga, akhirnya Viona bertemu dengan seorang lelaki yang terobsesi untuk membunuh Viona secara lahir dan bathin. Mampukah Viona bertahan di antara tekanan peristiwa demi peristiwa menyakitkan itu? Siapakah lelaki yang menjadi monster menakutkan bagi Viona tersebut?

The heaviness in the air is the prequel to the Across the desk. However it is told from Max's point of view. He realizes that he is stuck in life and he really wants to move on but he doesn't know how. His first time going out with a person he is accused of the worst thing a man can be accused of. Though the truth came out later he had already lost his place in his family and in the town. He never trusted women again. He knows that it all revolves around one women though. Then one day he is getting ready to go over his files for his job as an detective he sees one that he doesn't know. He opens the file and it is her, the woman who ruined his life. She was now dead. He is assigned the case to find her murderer. This is his chance to redeem himself and finally put the past to bed. He has to revisit everything in this woman's life and with some twists and turns he finally finishes the case with a jaw dropping person accused of the murder. Then he goes through the trial and he makes himself a promise. When the case is finally over he will move on and find the family he wants to have. The day the verdict for the last of the trials comes to an end Deanna Watson walks into his office. This is his chance to finally do something about his slight obsession with the tiny student. This story goes right into the across the desk and answers the questions of how Max is the way he is when it comes to dealing with the Watson family.

A company trust building trip turns into a trip home to the company’s CEO Micha Moran. He takes the group back to the ranch he grew up on. While there he finds that Sophia is also a farm girl and she proves to be much more to him then he planned on when a deal between them for two weeks could turn into forever. A true statement was you can take the person off the farm but not the farm out of the person. Sophia proves this to herself and to her boss who doesn't stay her boss for very long. They have everything the other wants in a partner. As they build their life together from the foundations of the farms they grew up on everything else finds its place easily.

The story revolves around a waiter, Terry, at the Happy Hill pub. Would he overcome the temptation of money to live his own life? Or would he be like rosehip petals that soon be withered?

Scarlett needed a job and fast. Bills were piling up and she needed to pay them. When her friend and roommate gives her a time and place to be somewhere Scar's whole world changed. Enter the man everyone knows but no one really sees. He enjoys it that way so he can learn their secrets. Scarlett changes everything in him with her innocence and her willing to do nearly anything, he commands. They find a love most dream of.

When Jasmine Martin walked into the school’s building she had no idea how her life was going to change. Meeting Josh Tillman was life changing for many reasons. Including learning a bit about a professor desires...

Based in real life events*** Kit was surprised when her best friend Mitsuhide shows up at her door with the news of a sister she didn't know of. She stepped up and helped through the first part until they kept adding more and more to the situation. As he started to find his feet with dealing with everything that was surrounding his sister and her unborn babies he knew that he had met his match in Kit. She was everything that he wanted in his life and to help him with everything yet to come.That was until he got hit with the news that someone close to her had done this to his sister. He raged but at the wrong person. Will they work everything out or will the happiness end for both of them?

Kristen Lambert has always been different from everyone else in the way she thought. She had long accepted that until she met him a High school teacher who was like her. He had some of the answers she needed. Gregor Bridger knew exactly what he was. He knew what she was as well the first time he saw her. While forging a friendship together they find even more about themselves out. A new life with a friend who after a long time becomes a lover and the love of each others lives they build a new future. One that it took over a hundred thousand years to make.

When everything could possibly go wrong it does. She finds out that she’s in labor and her stepmother is forcing her to take her along with her. In the process because of the way that her stepmother had acted she ends up needing emergency surgery. That’s when her father accidentally found out through a blood test that he wasn’t her biological father. The stepmother finally has her revenge and manages to get the girl kicked out of the hospital that night. If it wasn’t for a handsome stranger coming to save her in the front of the hospital who knows what would’ve happened to her.