Every Step You Take

Ini kisah tentang Eleana dan Mikael, yang saling mencintai setelah pernikahan mereka. Mereka pikir pernikahan mereka akan selalu di selimuti kebahagiaan. Tapi, ternyata masih ada batu kerikil yang menghalangi kebahagiaan mereka. Mampukah mereka bertahan? Atau pada akhirnya mereka akan merelakan?

The things we want are so very rarely the things we need. Clifton Heights, a modest Adirondack town, offers many unique attractions. Arcane Delights sells both paperbacks and hard-to-find limited editions. The Skylark Diner serves the best home-cooked meals around, with friendly service and a smile. Every August, Mr. Jingo’s County Fair visits, to the delight of children and adults. In essence, Clifton Heights is the quintessential small American town. Everyone knows everyone else, and everyone is treated like family. It is quiet, simple, and peaceful. But shadows linger here. Flitting in dark corners, from the corner of the eye. If you walk down Main Street after dark, the slight scrape of shoes on asphalt whispers you're not alone, but when you look over your shoulder, no one is there. The moon shines high and bright in the night sky, but instead of throwing light, it only seems to make the shadows lengthen. Children disappear. Teens run away. Hunters get lost in the woods with frightening regularity. Husbands go mad, and wives vanish in the dead of night. And still, when the sun rises in the morning, you are greeted by townspeople with warm waves and friendly smiles, and the shivers pass as everything seems fresh and new... Until night falls once more. Handy's Pawn and Thrift sits several blocks down from Arcane Delights. Like any thrift store, its wares range from the mundane to the bizarre. By daylight, it seems just another slice of small town Americana. But in its window hangs a sign which reads: We Have Things You Need. And when a lonely traveling salesman comes looking for something he desperately wants, after normal visiting hours, after night has fallen, he will face a harsh truth among the shelves of Handy’s Pawn and Thrift: the things we want are rarely the things we need. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

No matter how far I ran, no matter how deep I hid, I knew one truth… He would always find me. Knock. Knock. I jolted up from my sitting position, with my heart hammering in my chest. Just as I was saying... He had found me. But by the time he broke down the rickety door, I was already standing and facing him with a knife to my wrist. I'd rather die than return home with him as his mate. *** Eve thought she and her mother had successfully escaped her abusive father by getting married to the former Alpha of a pack far away from where they lived. But all her hopes were cut short the moment she realized her new stepbrother, Alpha Saint, who was also the current Alpha of her new pack, was the same man she had a one-night stand with eight months ago, along with his best friend, Beta Kyrie. And on that fateful night, she had stolen very valuable items from these men. Hated and controlled by her stepbrother, Saint, who saw her as nothing but a thieving whore, Eve decided to find solace in Kyrie, who was already falling madly in love with her. But Saint would rather fight his best friend to the death than let him anywhere close to the woman he was secretly obsessed with from the day he set eyes on her – Eve. All hell was let loose when Eve turned twenty-one and found out that not only was she mated to the man she loved and desired – Kyrie. She was also mated to her overly possessive stepbrother, whom she dreaded with her life. *** TRIGGER WARNING! This is a dark romance novel, which might contain some unsettling themes rated 18+. It is everything dark and forbidden. Please, be guided.

They know what this is. A relationship? They can’t even call it that. The only time they can stand each other is when they’re breathless, tangled in sheets, lost in the heat of the moment. But when a dark history begins to unravel between them, threatening the fragile balance they’ve built, one misstep could change everything. What happens when one of them crosses the line?

Alva has been arranged to get married to Lucas, the young heir to the Rossi Empire. On the day that has been arranged for her engagement, Lucas changes his mind, choosing to marry her timid, less attractive servant and throwing the family into chaos. Lucas Rossi is the, strikingly handsome, yet intimidating heir to the Rossi Empire. A man barely seen, completely avoidant of the paparazzi and with rumours spreading here and there about how he is only half human, yet no one can tell what the other half of him is. When he agrees to marry the politician's daughter in paper alone for the sake of business bonds, he is astounded by his sudden pull to the Hazel, whose life is turned upside down when she catches his attention instead. Why has he left the ethereal looking heiress to settle for a mere maid?

Patrice Kwon is a struggling student who just came out of the orphanage. She juggled jobs just to suffice and thrive in her lowly life. But one day, she was given a once in a lifetime opportunity to earn more than what she’s currently earning and at the same time, to study at a prestigious school. She only had to be one of the tutors of some rich but dumb high school boys. And there he met his nemesis, Lance Kim, who is also the student that she was going to tutor.

Elijah Morris has been fooling around for four out of the five years we've been married. And from the very first month, he openly betrays me. Meanwhile, I spend my time warding people off with expensive contracts, one after another. Eventually, all that's left between us is constant fighting. One day, his younger stepsister, Abigail Wright, returns. And just like that, he finally settles down. That's when the system tells me that I can finally go home. For the next five days, I no longer ask about his schedule. I don't care if he is with Abigail, nor do I care if she is pregnant with his child. I even move out of the master bedroom myself, listening to them going at it all night. The fifth day after Abigail's return is our wedding anniversary. Elijah bursts into the room, tears up our marriage certificate in front of me, and smashes my most treasured vase into pieces. He grips my throat tightly and growls, "Why did you put mango in Abby's cake? She's allergic, and she almost died! How could you be so cruel?" For the first time, I don't argue with him. Instead, I go along with his accusations. "So what?" I then pick up a shard from the broken vase on the floor under his disbelieving gaze. Then, I draw it across my artery. Just like that, I end my life in this world.

it turned out he would never respect me for two years of marriage. He kept considering me as a servant even if I had taken care his life for whole days. Eve was his lover. She left Bima, the man marrying me and made a contract with me when I was barely breathe due to my mother to commite suicide. My mother was freaking me out when she kept to hold herself with my father side even if the man continously abused my mother and cheating as well. Anyway, my father's affair was also Eve. Eve was a beauty in every single man's desire. What else could I do if in the end I run my life like my mother did. Yet, one day I found a doctor offering me a contract. That was an opportunity made me think I would divorce Bima. I could do that, definitely divorce him and made Eve paid all pain my mother got this time.

Terjerat hutang yang membawa seorang Gadis bernama Laluna berhadapan dengan sindikat perdagangan manusia yang ada di Nepal. Selama sepuluh tahun sejak Laluna masih belajar di sekolah menengah pertama pergi dari negara asalnya Tanpa bisa kembali ke negaranya lagi. Dia adalah seorang gadis yang dulunya tinggal disebuah desa kecil di Utara Indonesia. Kekelaman masa mudanya itu membawanya pada kehidupan baru yang menghilangkan kesan feminim dan ramah di dalam dirinya. Usianya sekarang sudah menginjak 22th Dia tumbuh menjadi seorang wanita yang sangat cantik tapi sangat tomboy, Dia bisa keluar dari perbudakan dan dunia prostitusi tapi akhirnya membawanya menjadi seorang wanita kriminal. Keadaan ini memang bukan sebuah pilihan, karena hanya ada dua pekerjaan untuk bisa bertahan hidup disana. Sebagai pencuri atau Wanita penghibur karena dia tumbuh tanpa pendidikan dan dia memilih yang pertama untuk mendapatkan banyak uang demi keluarganya sekaligus demi sebuah keinginan untuk pulang dan menyelamatkan semua teman-teman yang berangkat bersamanya. Sampai akhirnya seorang Tentara tidak sengaja datang pada sebuah pesta pora Di Nepal. Dia adalah utusan dari Indonesia untuk menyelamatkan para budak dan wanita penghibur yang terjebak di Nepal dengan cara menyamar. keduanya bertemu dalam satu misi yang sama untuk pulang ke Negara asal dan mereka berdua saling jatuh cinta. Keberanian mereka berdualah yang membuat mereka bisa kembali pulang dan membawa puluhan orang yang menjadi korban kekejaman perdagangan manusia ini. Bagaimanakah perjuangan mereka?

Siapa yang menyangka bermula dari dikira Host oleh tamu VIP di sebuah bar tenar, hidup Ivy Gilmore menjadi porak-poranda. Daniel Forrester, sang tamu VIP adalah Ceo dari perusahaan besar yang terobsesi padanya. Daniel terlalu sempurna untuk menjadi pendamping Ivy, sampai gadis itu tak mengerti kenapa Daniel tertarik padanya hanya karena kesalahan satu malam. Siapa yang menyangka di balik wajah tampan Daniel, pria mapan itu ternyata menyimpan sejuta rahasia yang membuat Ivy merinding ketakutan. Cinta dan obsesi tak ada bedanya bagi Daniel, apa pun akan dia lakukan demi mendapatkan Ivy Gilmore. Bisakah Ivy lepas dari pesona sang Ceo ataukah ia malah terjerat cinta penuh obsesi itu?