First Chapter Coffee House

Is love hard to find? Bobby found his Soulmate at a glimpse of an eye. He attended a once in awhile beach party that led him into falling in love and finding his long awaited lady of his dreams. Who knew love would be this elementary to find. His associates teased him and he denied it but deep down they knew he was concealing his sensitiveness. Their love grew even stronger that it led into marriage and making up a family together. Love comes where you are, we don't look for it. It comes naturally.

'น้ำส้ม' ต้องกลายเป็นหม้ายลูกติด เมื่อสามีของเธอเสียชีวิตด้วยอุบัติเหตุ การจากไปของเขาทำให้เธอต้องดิ้นรนสู้ชีวิตฟันฝ่าเพื่อลูก ชีวิตที่พลิกผันทำให้ได้เจอกับ 'นักรบ' นักธุรกิจหนุ่มไฟแรงที่ใครต่อใครจ้องจะจับ ทว่ากับไม่ได้เป็นตัวเลือกของเขาสักนิด ก็เพราะเขามันคนเอาแต่ใจ อยากได้น้ำส้มเพียงแรกสบตา โดยมีกามเทพตัวน้อยนำพาให้ได้พบเจอกัน...ภายใต้สัญญาที่เธอยากจะปฏิเสธ

“Ako ang nauna sa kanya sa buhay mo… Ako ang unang nagmahal sa ‘yo, Denmark. Hindi siya! Kaya akin ka na, noon pa man!” — Frances Alva Nang magdalagita si Frances Alva, alam na niya ang papel ni Denmark Mondragon sa buhay niya. Ang lalaking pakakasalan niya balang araw, ang magiging ama ng mga anak niya, ang lalaking nakalaan para sa kanya. Ngunit sa mata ni Denmark, isa lamang siyang kapatid ng kaibigan. Walang higit pa roon. Walang pagtingin. Walang puwang sa puso nito ang gaya niya. Subalit hindi niya akalain na ang tadhana mismo ang magbibigkis sa kanilang dalawa. Isang iglap, isang pagkakamaling hindi sinasadya, naabutan sila ng kapatid sa iisang kama, at nauwi sa isang kasalang mali na sa simula pa lang… dahil may ibang mahal ang binata. Ngayon, nakatali na sila sa biglaang kasal. Kasalang walang pagmamahal at puno ng sakit dahil sa paraan ng pakikitungo nito. Magkakapuwang pa kaya siya sa puso ng binata? May pag-asa pa kaya siyang mahalin ni Denmark? O mauuwi lang ito sa pusong sugatan?

Ria Singh is a seventeen-year-old Indian American, who hates her Indian relatives. After a prank on her Indian cousin went wrong, she is forced by her mother to study for medical education in India. Upset with her parent's decision, Ria planned to fail her first year so that she can return to America but destiny has something else in store for her.

Elena Adiningrat adalah definisi dari keanggunan old money. Namun, dalam satu malam, dunianya yang berporos pada galeri seni dan pesta eksklusif runtuh ketika kerajaan bisnis ayahnya dinyatakan bangkrut. Dengan sisa martabat yang ia miliki, Elena memutuskan untuk terbang ke Paris menggunakan tiket First Class terakhirnya—sebuah pelarian mewah untuk meratapi hidupnya sebelum ia harus menghadapi kenyataan pahit. Di kursi 1A, ia bertemu dengan Aiden Valerick, CEO dari Valerick Group yang dikenal sebagai pria berhati baja dengan selera yang sangat mahal. Aiden membenci gangguan, terutama dari wanita yang tampak rapuh. Namun, selama belasan jam di atas awan, dalam ruang privat yang intim dan mewah, percakapan intelektual serta ketegangan yang tak terjelaskan mulai meruntuhkan dinding es di antara mereka. Bagi Aiden, Elena adalah teka-teki estetika yang sempurna. Bagi Elena, Aiden adalah predator bisnis yang akan melahap apa pun yang tersisa dari keluarganya. Takdir membawa mereka lebih jauh dari sekadar teman satu penerbangan. Sekembalinya mereka ke daratan, Aiden menawarkan sebuah kesepakatan: Elena harus menjadi kurator seni pribadinya untuk memulihkan citra perusahaan—sekaligus menjadi tunangan sandiwara untuk memadamkan pemberontakan di dewan direksi. Dari gemerlap lampu penthouse di Jakarta hingga lantai dansa di Monaco, Elena dan Aiden terjebak dalam permainan kekuasaan yang elegan. Di balik balutan gaun sutra pesanan khusus dan jam tangan bernilai miliaran, ada rahasia masa lalu dan pengkhianatan yang mengintai. Di dunia High Society yang kejam, mereka harus memilih: mempertahankan takhta masing-masing atau menyerah pada takdir yang telah mempertemukan mereka di kelas utama.

"Here she comes, witch!" She hissed before throwing a beautiful black dress at me. I hurriedly grab it before it could land on the floor. She might find fault in that and end up starving for making the dress fall on the floor. Not only for a day but might go on for weeks. I was tempted to ask her what's the dress for but she beat me to it. "Go to your room now and change into this. Your husband to be and his mom will be visiting soon" "W... What?!!!"

Coral learns her entire life had been a lie, she’s forced to come to terms with the fact that she comes from a long line of Pure Elemental Conjurers whose abilities and genetics are very unique in their world. Coral is told she’s a fire elemental, and not just that, she’s what society calls an Elementalist. A unique elemental with the ability to not only control the four main elements of the earth, but has an unlimited amount of power. Her rear ability has only been seen once, on her ancestor, and due to the purity of her family’s bloodline she inherited that ability from that ancestor. Coral will slowly struggle to maintain her sanity among a world of abnormalities, especially when her identity becomes revealed and everyone at the academy finds out she is the illegitimate daughter of Steven Carter and Bella Ray. This revelation puts her directly into the spotlight, and her words and actions constantly draw the attention of students. More than once, Coral will be forced down by her insecurities and fears, and the new revelations regarding her parent’s death.

After suffering a heartache from a betrayal of a nine-year one sided love for Domino Lazatine—who was in a secret affair with his brother’s fiancée—Anastasha Molina found herself being proposed to by his first love’s brother, Dimitri Lazatine. Struck by the truth of betrayal and pain by Domino, would Anastasha agreed to the tempting marriage for convenience offer of the eldest Lazatine as a revenge to her heart ache?

Lydia McKenzie used to be just like any other normal, seventeen year high school girl, fretting over what to wear for school, struggling to get good grades and dealing with boy trouble, until one day, a dangerous incident at school and a severe brain injury, made her turn off her emotions completely. Three years later, she’s a complete robot who works with utmost efficiency without showing any emotions. But things start to change when she arrives at Rosewater University for higher studies. David Lyric Donovan is the quintessential bad boy of Rosewater. Be it getting into useless fights, getting arrested for beating someone to an inch of their life or any other crimes around campus, and not to mention going through girls like a person goes through their clothes, he’s done it all. He’s also a professional street fighter. Girls want to ‘fix’ him and guys want to be him. But nothing bothers him as much as the presence of the new girl, Lydia. She’s upfront and outspoken and she does not have the patience to deal with his , and moreover, she gets under his skin without even a slight change in her expression. Who is she and what’s in her past? He’s just as fascinated with her as he is annoyed. Can romance bloom between such a mismatched pair? And will Lydia ever let herself feel again, after what she’d endured?

Eidolon Avenue: Where the secretly guilty go to die. One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards. The sequel to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (“a great read...powerful and jarring” - Cemetery Dance) returns to the voracious Eidolon as it savors The Second Feast. A narcoleptic man in apartment 2A battles a vengeful past determined to rob him of everything as he runs from the barbaric disaster of a delusional love. A woman in 2B, reinventing herself to please a callous boyfriend, discovers the horrors that wait in the shadows of her self-renovation. The man in 2C, a teacher at the nearby Catholic girl’s school, collapses beneath the brutal consequences of his lecherous desires. An older woman in 2D, after decades dedicated to the church, is cornered at last by the grisly carnage beating at the hollow center of her faith. And a college student in 2E, hungry to escape an ignored life of invisible anonymity, finds herself captured between the pages of a ravenous book. All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every drop of spilled blood, every silent, complicit moment of cowardice is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing