Good Leaders Ask Great Questions

"Siapa dia, Mas?" tanya Shanum dengan kedua mata memindai sosok asing yang duduk di samping suaminya. "Perkenalkan, dia adalah Anara, istri baruku." Tanpa dosa, Arya Prasetya yang masih berstatus suami sah Shanum itu memperkenalkan wanita dengan riasan tebal, dan pakaian yang aduhai seksinya sebagai istri barunya. "Sudahlah, Shanum! Terima saja kalau suamimu ini punya istri baru. Sudah mandul, jadi benalu pula. Lagian, lelaki kan boleh beristri lebih dari satu," timpal Bu Desi, sang ibu mertua dengan tatapan angkuh nan sinisnya. Marah, jelas. Kecewa, tentu saja. Tapi, untuk berbuat bar-bar bukan Shanum namanya. Mandul? Benalu, katanya? Mari kita buktikan siapa 'Benalu' yang sesungguhnya! Shanum bertekad kuat untuk menghempaskan orang-orang tak tahu malu itu, yang menyebut dirinya sebagai benalu padahal sebaliknya. Bagaimana kisah Shanum berusaha menghempaskan suami dan keluarga benalunya? Ikuti kisahnya.

After five years of marriage, Zac Saunders felt the need to protect his son with his mistress. Not only did he pressure me into terminating the pregnancy, but he also conspired with the board of directors to remove me from my position as vice president. He held Jemma Jacobs close, wearing a wicked grin."Samantha Lewis," he sneered, "since you won't obey...""...Jemma take your place from now on," he continued.I pushed his hand away, pulling Jemma in front of me. Ignoring her struggles, I firmly grabbed her hair and forced her to tilt her head back."Come on," I urged, "tell him, who do you belong to?"

Penelope Lorenzo, a woman who’d just lost everything and in utter shambles. She had never imagined that life would bring her to this point. Brayden Giovanni, the big, masked mafia who shouldn’t be trifled with. Billionaire by day and Don by night. Thrust in each other’s worlds by circumstances beyond their control and some that seemed to be in his control. But with danger lurking from their forgotten pasts, including a serial killer on the loose, choices must be made or consequences abound. What happens when their cocoon is threatened by forces they can’t seem to identify? What happens when she leaves after unraveling his secrets and almost gets trafficked? Will she embrace he who would raze the underworld for her or will she leave with the fruit of their passion?

I secretly invite my in-laws over for the New Year, hoping to surprise my husband, Huxley Carlson. But the moment my father-in-law steps through the door, Huxley's secretary shoves him out. He slams into the shoe cabinet, throwing out his back. She sneers. "Who do you beggars think you are, strolling into Mr. Carlson's villa like this? You're this broke and still have the nerve to call yourself his father-in-law?" I immediately call for the housekeeper to help him, but the secretary blocks her. She even shoves my mother-in-law. "You really think you're the lady of the house?" she snaps. "Mr. Carlson hired the housekeeper to serve him, not to waste time on you or your useless parents." My mother-in-law is so enraged that she suffers a heart attack on the spot. I call Huxley in a panic, begging him to come to the hospital. But he sounds utterly unmoved. His voice is cold and mocking as he says, "Jen told me what happened. The nerve of you, bringing your parents to my house! Now you want me to rush to the hospital because your mom's pretending to be sick? "Tell them to get out! If she dies, she dies. Hell, maybe it's a blessing—just in time for the New Year!"

Deswita Maharani terperanjat ketika bangun dari tidurnya. Dia merasa asing dengan ranjang yang ditempatinya. Bau parfum asing juga tercium oleh hidungnya. Rani, panggilan wanita cantik itu, dirinya segera menyadari bahwa dia tidak berada di kamarnya. Padahal hari ini adalah hari pernikahannya dengan Azlan Bagaskara. Sebuah tayangan telivisi di depannya membuat netranya terbuka semakin lebar. Rasanya dia tidak percaya seorang Azlan Bagaskara sedang mengucap janji suci dengan seorang wanita, dan itu bukan dirinya. Dimana sebenarnya Rani. Siapakah wanita yang menjadi penggantinya? simak kisahnya dalam Bukan Pernikahanku.

The moment I was born, I took her life. They called me a murderer. Marcus used to burn me with cigarette butts, and Dad would say it was my fate. “You’re a curse. If you had any conscience, you’d have gone to join Mom a long time ago to repay what you owe.” When Marcus was diagnosed with kidney failure, that same cold, distant father knelt in front of me. “Please… save him…” I put my hand on Dad’s shoulder. “Dad, I’ll do the surgery. But can you promise me one thing?” Dad performed the surgery himself. It was a success. He saved the son he loved most and took the life of the daughter he hated. But after I died, Dad turned himself in to the police, and Marcus lost his mind.

"I assure, all those who dared to mock me will soon regret it, especially you, my dear ex-husband!" Samantha Swan, a 24 years old young woman, orphaned and working as a waitress, found herself pregnant by Marcus Johnson, a billionaire known for his arrogance, ruthlessness, and icy heart. Her life turned into a living nightmare when she was coerced into marrying him for the sake of their unborn child. She never experienced love, only enduring abuse at the hands of Marcus and her mother in-law, until one fateful day when she could bear it no longer. She made the courageous decision to escape, even though she was pregnant. She had reached her breaking point. Realizing that she would rather be a single mother, raising her child alone, than endure the pain inflicted upon her by her husband and mother in-law under the same roof, Samantha took a leap of faith. One day, as fate would have it, she collapsed on the road, only to awaken in a grand and opulent mansion, standing before a bearded and elderly man seated in a wheelchair. "Glad you're awake, my daughter," he said with a smile. From that day forward, Samantha discovered that she was the long-lost daughter and the sole heir of the Trillionaire, Zeus Monte Verde.

Raisa adalah istri yang sempurna di mata tetangga: cantik, anggun, dan selalu tersenyum saat menyiram bunga di pagi hari. Tapi di balik senyumnya, tersembunyi tubuh yang meronta-ronta dalam sunyi. Suaminya, Dimas, pria mapan yang setia pada pekerjaannya... lebih setia pada layar laptop daripada menyentuh istrinya sendiri. Saat Aldo, tetangga muda di sebelah rumah, mulai mengobrol ringan dan menawarkan bantuan kecil, Raisa tak menyangka dirinya akan terjun begitu dalam pada lembah yang panas dan membakar. Satu sentuhan berubah menjadi ciuman. Satu ciuman berubah menjadi malam tanpa batas. Dan dari sanalah segalanya berantakan. Di antara kebohongan, hasrat, dan rahasia yang mengancam terbongkar, Raisa harus memilih: bertahan dalam rumah tangga dingin yang memenjarakan… atau terbakar oleh keinginan yang tak bisa lagi ia kendalikan. Tapi, ketika kebohongan mulai berlapis, dan cinta mulai menipu diri sendiri… siapa yang sebenarnya mengkhianati siapa?

Lydia is very, very good at her job. She has an uncanny ability to ask the right questions at the wrong time, and digging deep is exactly the skillset that makes her such a great journalist. When she digs a little too far into the life of Doctor Jared Huntington, exposing a background of extreme malpractice, she suddenly finds herself on the run and at the mercy of a private security firm, headed by the incredibly handsome-and dangerous- Ethan Daven. Spanning months and diving deep into a world of wealth and danger that she never imagined, this book follows Lydia’s journey as she fights to keep a low profile-and her sanity- in such close proximity to the most attractive and deadly man she’s ever met.

Imelda menemukan bukti pembayaran dokter kandungan dari rumah sakit. Tangannya gemetar. Tak berselang lama, ia pun bertanya kepada Rizal - suaminya, yang akhirnya membeberkan rahasia setelah beberapa bulan di pendam. Mimpinya hancur dalam sekejap, tangisnya ia rasakan sendiri. Secepat kilat ia bangkit, bukan untuk Rizal, tapi untuk kedua anak lelakinya. Imelda akan bertahan dengan pernikahan itu demi anak-anaknya, hingga, suatu hari ia menyerah, Imel ingin berpisah tapi Rizal berjuang mati-matian menahan kepergian Sang Istri yang ia cinta. Pertanyaannya, bisakah Imelda bertahan lagi, saat kedua putranya tau jika Rizal menikah lagi? "Ibu, ceraikan Ayah. Ibu berhak bahagia. Kami sudah besar, jangan berkorban lagi demi kami. Ayo Ibu, ceraikan Ayah." ucap si sulung yang di ikuti anggukan kepala putra bungsunya.