Good Historical Fiction

"Maaf, Raden. Aku tidak bisa menerimanya. Aku mencintai laki-laki lain." Sekar. "Kita memang bersahabat sejak kecil. Tapi statusmu sekarang adalah selirku. Aku berhak melakukan apa saja, termasuk ... menidurimu." Raden Wijaya. "Sekar. Aku mencintaimu sampai mati." Kamandanu.

Pertemanan yang sudah mereka jalin semenjak mereka masih remaja, namun itu semua kandas karena mereka telah mencintai wanita yang sama.

Berkisah tentang kerajaan kecil bernama Kerajaan Sanggabumi yang mengalami banyak konflik ketika salam masa pemerintahan Prabu Arya Pamenang. Putri tunggalnya yang bernama Dewi Rukmini harus berjuang keras untuk mempertahankan kejayaan Kerajaan tersebut. Berbagai macam intrik internal dalam pemerintahan kerajaan terjadi. Peristiwa bencana alam yang diikuti dengan pemberontakan, membuat kerajaan kecil itu berada di ambang kehancuran. Sang Prabu tidak kuasa lagi mencari jalan keluar apalagi setelah Dewi Gauri, Sang Permaisuri, meninggal dalam pertempuran menumpas pemberontak di desa Kampung Alit yang disebut dengan "Pemberontakan Candra Ratri". Dewi Rukmini tampil mengambil alih tampuk kekuasaan kerajaan Sanggabumi. Namun, dia menghadapi banyak penolakan secara terselubung dari para kerabat kerajaan. Termasuk dari Dewi Ayu Candra, sepupu dekatnya. Kisah cinta antara Dewi Rukmini, Pangeran Gagat, dan Dimas Bagus Penggalih, menjadi konflik asmara yang tidak sedikit mempengaruhi psikologis Sang Putri. Apalagi gangguan dari Dewi Ayu Candra yang ternyata juga mencintai Pangeran Gagat, membuat perjuangan Dewi Gauri seolah tak berujung. Bagaimana akhir kisah perjuangan Dewi Rukmini menegakkan kembali kerajaannya? Dan bagaimana pula dengan akhir kisah cintanya? Akankah Dewi Gauri mampu menggapai semua cita-cita dan kebahagiaan kasihnya?

Naya seorang menantu dan istri yang sering tak dianggap keberadaannya. Namun, setelah terungkapnya sebuah rahasia siapa ia sebenarnya membuat mantan mertua dan suaminya amat menyesal. Rahasia apakah yang telah terungkap hingga membuat mantan mertua dan suaminya akhirnya menyesali kehilangan sosok Naya yang sering tidak dianggap tersebut?

Dikhianati keluarga. Ditinggalkan oleh orang tua. Disingkirkan dari takhta. Dan tetap berdiri demi cinta serta balas dendam. Pangeran Mahkota Jagatra Eduardo Batistuta adalah pewaris sah Kerajaan Aethelgard Silvanus. Namun tujuh saudaranya, bahkan Raja dan Ratu sendiri, merencanakan segala cara untuk menyingkirkannya. Mereka ingin Kaesar, anak kesayangan, menjadi raja berikutnya. Selama bertahun-tahun Jagatra buta akan kebencian keluarganya. Sampai akhirnya, di usianya yang ke-25, semua topeng tersingkap dan darah pertama tertumpah. Saat balas dendam mulai ia jalankan, hidupnya dipenuhi dilema. Ia jatuh cinta pada Audina, gadis sederhana dari rakyat jelata. Namun cinta mereka dipenuhi duri fitnah, perbedaan kasta, hingga hadirnya putri dan pangeran lain yang mencoba merebut hatinya. Mampukah Jagatra bertahan dari pengkhianatan demi pengkhianatan? Akankah ia berhasil membalaskan dendam, merebut takhta, sekaligus mempertahankan cintanya? Satu hal yang pasti hanya darah dan cinta sejati yang akan menobatkannya sebagai Raja.

Sahya hanya seorang mahasiswa biasa yang senang menikmati fasilitas dunia modern. Namun, tangannya yang iseng menyentuh benda aneh yang membuat dirinya terlempar ke masa lalu dalam tubuh seorang anak kecil yatim piatu. Seiring waktu, Sahya menjadi harapan baru bagi kelompoknya, membawa terobosan yang tidak hanya meningkatkan kesempatan hidup mereka, tetapi juga perlahan-lahan mengubah struktur sosial mereka. Namun, setiap perubahan besar tidak datang tanpa perlawanan. Sahya harus menghadapi serangan demi serangan dari ancaman dari berbagai pihak. Bisakah Sahya mempertahankan sukunya, atau apakah jejak yang ia coba ukir akan terhapus oleh pasir waktu?

During a charity gala, my boyfriend bids on a pair of matching watches but gives one of them to his true love. The media excitedly capture the scene and ask, "You bought a million-dollar watch without even batting an eye, Mr. Loewe. You've been single all these years—is it time for you to make an official announcement on your relationship status?" Everyone off stage applauds him, and I join them. I give him my blessings for his so-called announcement. To make it up to me, he attends my birthday celebration. Yet he pushes me into the cake to make his true love happy. Unbeknownst to him, there's a steel rack in the cake to keep it steady. I end up bloodied and on the brink of death.

I once thought Jareth was the love of my life. He said "Mom's in the hospital," but then turned around and kissed Lily in the VIP seats at the concert; when his bipolar disorder flared up, he was violent with me, but then told Lily, "You’re such a good girl"; he had videos with Lily saved on his phone, and in the chat records, he called me "the cold, emotionless finance robot." Five years of love, ruined in his lies and betrayals. He thought I would cry and scream, but all I did was watch him finish his final act. When he knelt on the ground and said, "I was wrong," what I handed him was the merger agreement: "Sign it. This is the first debt you owe me." Those broken hearts will eventually turn into sharp blades that will pierce him. And I will rise from the ruins, living more beautifully than anyone else.

It was only in the eighth year of our marriage that I discovered my husband had a mistress in the neighborhood. Her place had the same layout as mine, except her furnishings were more luxurious. He was a good husband for her, meticulously caring for his young and beautiful wife. They were even expecting a baby. She sent me a message, eager to get rid of and replace me. She had forgotten I was the one who had been through hard times with him, Clyde Sherwood, and fought alongside him for more than a decade. Her pregnancy was what they both wanted, but there was no way I would allow things to work out the way they anticipated. Taking advantage of his conflicted feelings, I made sure he didn't have any more assets. Everything came with a price. Not only would I make him fall from grace, but I would also make him rot in ruins.

Torn between the man she loves, and the man who loves her.... Cordia Pike has always been strong-willed, but she knows her family expects her to accept the hand of her childhood friend, Jaris Adams, in marriage. As the conflict between the states continues to escalate, Cordia hopes it will last long enough for her to find a way to free herself without breaking her friend’s heart. On the eve of war, as the men prepare to ride off to battle, Cordia meets a mysterious newcomer. There’s just something about Will Tucker that she finds both intriguing and dangerous. Under the guise of caring for his sister, she makes a plan to write to him. Perhaps by the time the war is over, Will’s feelings for Cordia will have blossomed into the love she is starting to feel for the Union soldier. But war is evil and complex, and by the time it begins to wind its way through Southwest Missouri, one of these men will be dead, and Cordia will find herself betrothed to a man she loathes. Will she have the courage to follow her heart and stand up for what she believes in like so many others, or will she do as she is told and acquiesce to a loveless marriage to a heartless traitor?