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Talia grew up without trusting anyone but herself to live. With no father figure to look up to and a clinically depressed mother who keeps on betraying her, Talia crawls her way to the top of the social chain to survive. But upon one drunken night, she meets her terrible end. Just like that, Talia loses all she worked hard for, or so she thought. When she wakes up, she becomes a duke’s eldest daughter in a medieval era where alliances and conspiracies dictate a noble’s future and where love is a luxury that will lead anyone to ruin. No matter how twisted the world she is pushed into, Talia is determined to live long. She realizes that she is given a second chance to live – or not. Reality slaps her hard when she learns that she is now inside the body of a sixteen-year-old villain character of the Netflix series that she binge-watched, “Thorny Crown”! Talia, who is now the infamous Lady Victoria, entered a popular yet twisted Netflix series two years before the plot started. And in that plot, the character of Lady Victoria is meant to die like cannon fodder for the female lead! Talia refuses to die again. And this time, she is going to extend her helping hand to another side character, the second prince of the story, Prince Cory. She decides to be the queen and defy the plot called destiny with the king of her choosing. In an era of deceit and conspiracies, will she be able to keep her head as she walks the thorny path of a villain? With her head on the line, will she be able to control her blooming feelings for the pawn that she has chosen?

Saat Evrard Zahn Alterio terbangun di suatu pagi, dia menemukan sang sekretaris-Qailula Zivara berada di sampingnya dengan tubuh polos hanya dibalut selimut. Seketika pening menyengat kepala Evrard dampak bukan hanya dari alkohol yang tadi malam dia minum namun juga karena pria itu merasa telah mengkhianati tunangannya. Evrard sudah bertunangan dengan Sienna Howard yang merupakan anak seorang bangsawan Inggris bergelar Duke Of Norfolk, bayangkan bagaimana repotnya kalau masalah ini sampai terbongkar. Akhirnya Evrard meminta Lula—nama kecil sekertarisnya itu—untuk merahasiakan tentang ini dan Lula bersedia karena dia tidak ingin membuat Evrard merasa dirinya adalah ancaman kemudian memecatnya karena Lula membutuhkan biaya yang banyak dalam jangka panjang untuk biaya pengobatan sang nenek yang merawatnya sedari kecil. Lalu apakah masalah selesai? Ternyata tidak, Lula diketahui hamil anaknya Evrard membuat cicit dari orang kaya kelima di Dunia itu frustrasi. Evrard mengkhawatirkan hubungan keluarganya dengan keluarga Sienna menjadi buruk mengingat selama ini hubungan itu terjalin begitu harmonis dan saling menguntungkan. Dan bukan hanya itu, Evrard khawatir kalau Sienna dan keluarganya akan melakukan segala cara untuk melenyapkan aib tersebut termasuk Lula dan bayinya. Lalu apakah yang akan dilakukan Evrard untuk menyelesaikan masalah ini?

Di balik kemewahan istana bangsawan Eropa, kekuasaan tidak pernah diwariskan dengan damai. Thom Percy, pewaris keluarga aristokrat Britania Raya, tumbuh jauh dari tanah kelahirannya. Pengasingan, pengkhianatan, dan rahasia keluarga membentuknya menjadi sosok dingin yang memahami satu hal: darah biru tidak menjamin keselamatan. Ketika konflik lama kembali menyeret keluarganya ke pusaran politik internasional, Thom terpaksa kembali ke dunia yang sejak lama ia tinggalkan—dunia para Duke, Marquess, dan elit global yang tersenyum di meja makan, namun saling membidik dalam gelap. Di tengah permainan kekuasaan itu, muncul seorang perempuan asing. Seorang penerjemah lisan yang selalu hadir di tempat yang salah—atau mungkin, terlalu tepat waktu. Ia tidak mencari sorotan. Tidak mengejar kekuasaan. Namun setiap langkahnya selalu beririsan dengan peristiwa besar: konferensi politik rahasia, skandal elit global, hingga insiden penembakan yang mengguncang istana bersejarah. Tidak ada yang tahu siapa dia sebenarnya. Tidak ada yang berani bertanya terlalu jauh. Sementara itu, Thom harus memilih: melanjutkan hidup sebagai bayangan yang aman, atau kembali ke pusat permainan—menghadapi masa lalu, mempertaruhkan orang-orang yang ia lindungi, dan menantang kekuatan yang jauh lebih besar dari satu keluarga bangsawan. Dalam dunia tempat hukum bisa dibeli, loyalitas dipertukarkan, dan kebenaran dikaburkan oleh kekuasaan— siapa yang benar-benar memegang kendali?

"We can't keep fighting this," Michael said. "YOU can't keep fighting this." Diane looked away guiltily, "I have no idea what you're talking about." Michael pulled her closer to himself, "I'll accept that. For now. But I plead that you only give me a chance to prove to you, that I've loved you ever since. And if I have to spend my whole life doing so, then I don't mind, Diane. That's how much you drive me crazy." * * After Diane loses everything and ends up in the hospital, an elegant woman walks in with a single paper that can change her fate. With nothing but anger, hurt and revenge on her mind, Diane knows her life is about to change. Because not only did Diane Winters die twenty seven hours ago, but Diane Deveraux is a whole new woman who is out for blood and revenge on her ex husband and everyone who had set her up. Meanwhile Michael on the other hand would do anything humanly possible to get Diane back even if it meant crawling to h*ll on his knees and getting back. * A book of heartwrecking betrayal, lies, cold revenge, pettiness and intense love. Unexpected plot twists and heart swooning romance.

Anna Russell thought she had found her forever in Derrick Martinez, the man holding the Silverfang Pack together while their Alphas were in seclusion. She gave him her innocence and her heart, only to find him in the arms of another woman hours later. Humiliated, rejected, and cast out into the rain by the very pack she called family, Anna decides she is done playing the victim. She trades her tears for a leather jacket and her heartbreak for a handgun. She rides to the Silverfang palace to end the man who betrayed her, but a single bullet intended for the Beta hits the wrong target. Ryker Reed, the most ruthless of the legendary Twin Alphas, doesn't even flinch when her bullet pierces his skin. Instead, he looks at Anna with a dark, hungry smirk. He and his brother Ronald have returned from eight years of exile to find their pack in shambles and their fated mate standing before them with a smoking gun. Now, Anna is caught between two powerful Alphas who want to claim her and a past that wants to destroy her. With the Silverfang Pack riddled with traitors, fake bonds, and hidden assassins, Anna must decide: Will she run from the destiny she never asked for? Or will she seduce the twin kings and take the throne she was born to rule?

I gave birth prematurely, just twenty days before the due date. Two hours after I entered the surgery room, I had a stillborn baby. I did not cry at all. I did not even spare a glance at the dead baby. I endured the pain from childbirth and calmly walked into the hospital nursery. After the door was tightly shut, I turned down the temperature of the air-conditioning. The temperature inside the nursery would be too cold for newborns to bear after an hour. The doctors and parents were begging me on their knees to let their babies live. They screamed and cried. They said I was a mother and hoped that I would understand. Instead, I laughed and said, “Yes, I was a mother. But my baby died!” The gynecologist knelt on the floor and begged, “We may be at fault for not being able to save your baby, but these babies are innocent! “Please don’t be reckless just because you lost your baby! You’re so young. You’ll have more babies in the future.” I gritted my teeth and roared, “But my baby isn’t dead! “She’s still alive. I’ll give you one hour. Bring her back to me!” But I was unsure if she would still be alive after an hour.

Just because I forget to bring my mate's lover back—leaving her alone in the wilderness for three hours—he flies into a rage and throws me into an abandoned well in the desolate countryside. "You need to experience the torment that Belinda was put through." The well is deep and narrow, forcing me to curl up in my wolf form. I struggle to breathe. I plead for mercy and beg for forgiveness. However, all he does is tell me off icily. "Stay there and repent for your sins. You'll only understand the dignity required of a Luna once you learn your lesson from this." He orders his men to seal the well with a large boulder. I let out anguished howls and roars as I claw my way upward. However, I only fall back down over and over again. The walls of the well are covered in my claw marks. I continue like this until I can't make a sound through my parched throat. … Half a month later, my mate's heart softens when he sees the birthday gift I've prepared in advance for him. He decides to end my punishment. Unbeknownst to him, worms and snakes have already gnawed my body beyond recognition at the bottom of the well.

Aria Leviste Delgado was never the chosen one. Laging nasa anino ni Sienna-ang perpektong panganay, matalino, maganda, palaban. Si Aria? Tahimik. Sunod-sunuran. Hindi pinapansin. Hanggang sa tumakas si Sienna. A scandal no one saw coming. Just hours before her arranged marriage to Damian Valtor-the ruthless CEO every family wanted to be aligned with. Para maiwasan ang kahihiyan at tuluyang pagbagsak ng pamilya nila, si Aria ang ipinasuot sa gown. Walang tanong-tanong. Pretend. Smile. Say "I do" to a man who was never meant to be hers. Damian Valtor is cold. Calculated. Furious. He knows this isn't the woman he agreed to marry. Pero tinuloy pa rin niya. Because power is everything-and Aria? She's just a pawn. A weak replacement for her strong, flawless sister. But Aria is done playing nice. Done being quiet. Done being invisible. Sa isang kasalang binuo sa kasinungalingan, Aria and Damian enter a war of wills. She's not the weak girl he expected. And he's not as heartless as she thought. What started as a six-month deal slowly begins to blur... into something dangerously real. But when secrets rise and Sienna returns, Aria must face the truth: Will she always be second best? Or will she finally become someone's first choice?

I worked for a restaurant, and our boss loved making empty promises about giving us restaurant shares. The boss said we would start with zero shares, but we could earn 0.01% for every two hours of overtime, covering someone else’s work or saving the restaurant 1,000 bucks. I suggested she write this down in an official document and have someone track it properly. She just smiled and told everyone to work harder. She never actually put it in writing. The experienced staff did not believe her, but one prep cook took it seriously. At the end of the year, he went to the boss to claim his shares. The boss said, “Sorry, the head chef told me there’s no official document, so it doesn’t count. You can’t claim any shares.” The prep cook worked hard all year and got nothing for it, so he took his anger out on me. The day before I was going home for the New Year, he killed me with a knife. “If you hadn’t said it doesn’t count without an official document, this whole restaurant would’ve been mine!” I lay in a pool of blood. When I opened my eyes, I was back to the day the boss first made those empty promises.

I stayed up a few hours to watch you fall asleep Maximiliam Declan Addison, siapa yang tak mengenalnya? Ya, Dia adalah putra dari pasangan Anna dan Alexander Addison. Sosok pria dingin yang sialnya memiliki wajah rupawan itu, nyatanya adalah seorang penerus perusahaan Addison Corp. Pribadi yang tertutup membuatnya tak tersentuh. Ditambah dengan keseriusannya dalam memimpin, menjadikan dirinya begitu disegani walau usianya baru dua puluh lima tahun. Akan tetapi, tak ada yang menyangka di balik semua itu, Liam bisa berubah menjadi pria posesif jika hal tersebut menyangkut adiknya -Jazzlyne Addison- Suatu ketika, Jazzy membuat masalah hingga menuntun Liam pada takdir cintanya. Usaha Liam untuk menyelesaikan masalah malah mempertemukannya dengan sosok wanita asing yang terjatuh dari kapal yang dinaikinya. Liam tak menyangka bahwa pertolongannya pada wanita itu, harus berakhir dengan malam panas menggairahkan sehingga membuatnya tak mampu melupakan setiap deru napas wanita yang menghilang setelah malam tak terduga itu berakhir. Siapakah sosok wanita itu? Apakah Liam mampu menemukannya? "Unexpected night." ༺༻