December Rain

Raymond (Ray), 45 tahun berubah menjadi pria yang dingin dan kasar, setelah pengkhianatan yang dilakukan oleh Istri dan partner bisnisnya. Yang membuat ia jatuh dalam keterpurukan dan usahanya menjadi bangkrut. Di saat usahanya sudah mulai sukses kembali, asisten rumah tangga Ray datang membawa Putrinya yang cantik dan muda untuk menjadi pelayan di rumahnya., yang tanpa diketahui Ray pernah mejadi teman tidur satu malamnya. Pengkhianatan yang pernah dilakukan oleh mantan Istrinya membuat Ray menaruh curiga dan bersikap kasar kepada Anna, pelayan baru di rumahnya. Diam-diam, Anna menyukai Ray, karena ia merasa di balik sikap kasarnya Ray memiliki hati yang baik dan penuh cinta. Anna bertekad untuk mengembalikan itu semua dari Ray. Kesalhpahaman terjadi, ketika Anna yang hampir menyerah dengan sifat kasar Ray mengembalikan cincin pria itu, yang tertinggal, setelah percintaan panas mereka. Ray curiga, kalau Anna memanfaatkan dirinya demi mendapatkan hartanya. Ray menyangkal perasaannya yang lambat laun jatuh hati kepada Anna, selain karena usia mereka yang terpaut jauh. Juga rasa sakit dan tidak percaya kepada wanita begitu membekas di hati Ray. Kegigihan dan rasa cinta Anna yang besar lambat laun mampu mengubah sikap Ray. Cinta keduanya pun akhirnya bersatu dalam pernikahan yang berbahagia.

Diana Rosalina (25 tahun) telah melakukan satu kesalahan di usia remajanya. Ia telah menyerahkan kesuciannya pada sang kekasih, Attala Zain Dimitri (26 tahun). Gadis pendiam itu pun akhirnya mengandung tanpa sepengetahuan Zain. Ia menyembunyikan identitasnya selama bertahun-tahun. Hingga waktu mempertemukan mereka pada pilihan masing-masing. Dan sayangnya, dibalik kebaikan Brian Aditama (27 tahun) ada satu rencana yang tidak diketahui sama sekali oleh, Rose. Zain datang kembali dengan karakter yang berbeda. Lelaki yang sudah mengkhianatinya itu, sekarang telah menjelma menjadi seorang CEO yang cukup disegani di tempat mereka bekerja. Hingga kenyataan membuka kedua bola matanya, "Siapa dia, Rose? Apakah dia anakku?" Zain menautkan kedua alisnya. Ia menatap heran pada anak perempuan yang kini berdiri di belakang tubuh, Rose. Mampukah keduanya bersatu kembali? Sedangkan Zain saat ini sudah menikah dengan gadis pilihan keluarga.

Brody Lewis, my fiance, said that I had a rare form of transient global amnesia, which was a sudden, temporary memory loss. Every seven days, I would open my eyes and become the twenty-five-year-old Riley Taylor again. My memories were forever stuck in the past. In my pen drive were videos of Brody taking me on trips, bringing me for treatment, and proposing to me. Everything seemed great between us, but I remembered none of it. “Riley’s still around. Can’t you keep your hands to yourself?” “Don’t worry. It’s Monday tomorrow. After she wakes up, she’ll remember none of it,” Brody said, and my heart sank. “Isn’t this more exciting?” Brody embraced my best friend, and they made out brazenly in front of me. They were not shy about it at all. I wondered just how many times this had happened over the past two years. I ran as tears blurred my vision. When I arrived at a tattoo shop, I grabbed the tattoo artist like a drowning man holding on to a log. Then, I asked the tattoo artist to tattoo these words on my arm in my handwriting. [Leave him.]

(Trigger warning: this book has some elements of dark romance with an unhinged ML) "Would you give me your surname or better take mine then? Will you be the lucky man?" I blurted out having no idea of what I was saying. My head was already in the clouds and blinded by his smile. It calmed the storm in my mind. He laughed. Those dark abysses were truly alluring when they sparkled. His fingers grazed my cheeks, wiping off my tears, before cupping them in his callous palms. "If you love my surname so much." A foolish smile graced my lips, oblivious of the fact that he wasn't joking. "You can't back down now, hubby. You just got a wife." I thought I lost everything when I walked away from Sinclair. I never imagined I’d end up as Alaric Von Duvall’s wife. ******* Her life was written in stone. A perfect life one she always dreamt of. Everything Cassandra wanted was within reach until one night revealed the love she'd trusted was a lie. Betrayal and deceit from those she trusted the most made every belief she had crash down. What she didn’t expect was to stumble into a stranger's arms, into his bed and wake up married. Alaric gave her what she thought she wanted; now she can't take it back. One reckless mistake became a wedding vow. Now she’s trapped inside Alaric’s empire of lies. Married to a stranger who knows more than he’s letting on He’s dangerous. He’s charming. And in front of everyone, he claimed her as his . Caught between Sinclair’s obsession, Alaric’s shadowy intentions, and her family’s betrayal, Cassandra doesn’t know if this marriage will be her downfall… or her salvation.

I’d thought Christmas would end on a sad note. December 25th, which started with my husband’s fraud discovery, caught him with our supposed maid in the afternoon… I wasn’t expecting anything for the evening. “Take me anywhere. Somewhere loud, mad, anything just anywhere from these disgusting humans.” The driver really took my request seriously. He took me away from humans to the dangerous and lustful world of the shape-shifters. I’d doubted, thinking the fangs were for Halloween until THEY appeared. They offered me what my husband and I make in a year for a night. I thought I was painting December Detty for just one night by accetping thier offer. But they said no. "We're the Alphas of the Dynera pack, a woman once ours, is forever ours"

Hamil di luar nikah? Itu sudah sangat sering terjadi. Namun bagaimana kalau seorang gadis mengandung dan melahirkan anak dari kakak iparnya? Itu adalah kisah seorang gadis yang bernama Aruna Vega Prasetya yang terpaksa menyetujui desakan ayahnya untuk menikahi putra kedua keluarga kaya yang bernama Candra Putra Tanoto. Namun suaminya itu melakukan hal yang tidak pantas di malam pertama mereka. Dan malam pertama yang mengerikan itu membuat tragedi baru antara Aruna dengan Rega Putra Tanoto, kakak kandung dari Candra hingga membuat Aruna hamil. Lalu bagaimana Aruna bisa menjalani kehidupan gila ini? Juga apakah mungkin Rega akan menerima kehamilan Aruna? Dan apa yang akan dilakukan Candra setelah tahu Aruna mempunyai anak dengan kakak kandungnya sendiri?

In my final year of high school, my parents died, leaving me nothing but a crumbling brick house. And yet, I somehow got myself a younger brother. He was a second-year student at our school, at the top of his grade. But no one respected him. Even when he was bullied, the teachers turned a blind eye. Why? Because even if others didn't beat him, his drunken father did it every day, while his cowardly mother never dared to fight back. I dragged him home with all my strength, patched up his wounds, and kept him with me for several days. Later, when his mother was beaten to death, I called the police and had his father arrested. "Hey," I told him, "from now on, live with me. I don't have any family left. Call me sister, and I'll put you through school." He dreamed of getting into a prestigious university. So I dropped out, set up a street stall, sold my own blood, and even took illegal jobs just to support him. When he graduated, he said he wanted to start a business. I gave him every cent of my savings. And then one day, I watched him stand beneath the dazzling lights, a radiant girl at his side, holding a trophy for a youth entrepreneurship award. I looked down at the cancer diagnosis in my hands. A bitter smile tugged at my lips. In the end, I had raised him into someone I could no longer reach. It was time for me to leave the stage.

My husband, Dominic Moore, insists on having his first love, Irene Cobb, at our wedding ceremony. Just when it's time for the bride to enter the hall, he suddenly asks for the ceremony to be paused for three minutes. Then, he gets off stage and pulls Irene, dressed in a white gown, out of the crowd. Right in front of all the guests, he takes her by the hand and walks her down the aisle, saying, "I promised Irene I'd walk her down the aisle someday." The tearful Irene throws herself into Dominic's arms before saying to my in-laws, "Mom, Dad. Although I won't get to be your daughter-in-law, I still want to address you as Mom and Dad just once." She turns back to Dominic and kisses him passionately. The guests exclaim in shock and whisper among themselves, eager to revel in my humiliation. However, I simply open the doors with a smile. I take off my veil and place it on Irene's head. "Why do you say you won't get to be their daughter-in-law? Since you like this cheating scumbag so much, I'll give him to you."

"You broke the law of this house when you fell in love with me, your own stepbrother. And now, you’ve broken the law of this country by killing someone. Tell me, Hariette. How will you defend yourself from the crime you’ve committed, when you couldn’t even defend the love you once felt for me?” Napagbintangan si Hariette ng mga kapitbahay na siya ang pumatay sa kanyang tiyuhin matapos makita ng mga ito na hawak niya ang patalim habang nakahandusay sa sahig ang duguan na katawan nito. Inaresto siya ng mga pulis at ikinulong nang walang matibay na ebidensya laban sa kanya. Umatras ang kanyang abogado sa paghawak ng kanyang kaso dahil ayaw niyang magsalita at ipagtanggol ang sarili. Ayaw niyang sabihin ang totoo na ang kanyang Tiya Gilda ang pumatay sa asawa nito. Wala na siyang makuhang libreng abogado kaya naman napilitan siyang humingi ng tulong sa pamilyang minsan na ring kumupkop sa kanya bago siya napunta sa poder ng kanyang tiyahin, at iyon ay ang mga Avery. Noong una, ayaw itong tanggapin ni Justin, dahil hindi ito humahawak ng kaso ng mga kriminal. Ang katwiran niya, bakit nya ipagtatanggol ang mga taong nagkasala? Ang nararapat sa mga ito ay maparusahan. Pero sa kalaunan ay tinanggap niya rin ito, ngunit bago pa man ang lahat ay nagkasundo sila na babayaran niya ito sa paraang gusto ng binatang abogado, at pumayag naman siya. Pero paano kung ang hilingin nitong bayad ay ang pakasalan siya ng sikreto? Ang akala niya ay may nararamdaman din ito sa kanya. Iyon pala, gusto lang nitong turuan ng leksyon ang babaeng nang-iwan dito. Ang babaeng pinagselosan niya kaya siya lumayas sa bahay ng pamilya Avery. Sa pagitan ng hustisya at pag-ibig, sino ang tunay na huhusgahan? Ang nagkasala, o ang nagmahal?

** "Why did your feelings suddenly change?" Xander asked me looking completely lost. There was no way I could say it was because if I stayed with him, I might die. His cold eyes were piercing through me but it didn't make me fret. I averted my eyes knowing my next reply was a big lie. "I love someone else now, and I can't stand you anymore. Since we would be together for two months, our parents' promise will be honoured." Then he froze unable to believe my words. **** Karis was in an arranged marriage to Xander, a cold-hearted billionaire who stood on the Pinnacle of the business for years. Karis's entire life revolved around Xander. She loved him for years and did her best to save their marriage, abandoning everything she loved or cared for just to please him, but Xander never reciprocated her feelings. She thought if they could finally have a child, he would love her back, but that was just her delusion. Xander never loved her and betrayed her by cheating on Karis with her step-sister Emma, leaving Karis devasted and leading to her death. Luckily, fate smiled at Karis, and she was given a second chance to redo it. This time, she wants nothing to do with her heartless husband and just wants to focus on living the best life, but why does Xander keep on pestering her life? Will Karis give Xander a second chance or end up with his rival Skyler who picked interest in her? Why does Xander keep on pestering her in this life despite ruthlessly betraying her before? Are there secrets to be unravelled? Why don't you find out in this intriguing story of love and betrayal and watch things unravel?