Holy Idol

Elden Clay, seorang seperstar tampan yang cuek dan kekanak-kanakan, mendadak harus menjadi seorang ayah dari gadis berusia lima belas tahun. Semua itu karena surat perjanjian aneh yang pernah dibuatnya di masa lalu dengan Bunda Bayu. Lantas, bagaimana nasib kariernya? Bagaimana ketika satu per satu rahasia masa lalunya terkuak?

They called him Father. She called him forbidden. Ayana Marcus thought coming home for Christmas would be simple—a few weeks of family dinners, church services, and small-town nostalgia before returning to her real life in Boston. She didn't expect him. Father Nelson has been her father's best friend for two decades. A priest. A pillar of their tight-knit community. A man who's supposed to be untouchable, unshakeable, holy. But when Ayana returns after four years away—no longer the sheltered girl who left, but a woman who knows her own mind—everything changes. One look across her family's dinner table, and she sees it: the way his dark eyes linger a second too long, the tension in his jaw when she speaks, the white-knuckled grip on his glass when she laughs. Father Nelson isn't just her father's friend anymore. He's a man on the edge of breaking. One stolen kiss beneath the mistletoe shatters two decades of self-control. What begins as a single moment of weakness spirals into a secret affair that threatens to destroy everything—his priesthood, her family, their souls. He tells himself he's corrupting her. She knows she's awakening him. In the cold December nights, between whispered prayers and desperate touches, they discover that some sins taste like salvation. That the line between worship and desire is thinner than either imagined. That love—even forbidden, impossible, unholy love—can be the most sacred thing of all. But in a town where secrets don't stay buried and the church sees everything, their passion will cost them more than they ever imagined. He's twice her age. Her father's best friend. A man of God. She's everything he's denied himself for twenty years. And this December, they'll learn that some gifts are too dangerous to unwrap… But impossible to resist.

Velope Pranaja adalah artis populer masa kini. Ia mempunyai banyak fans di kalangan remaja dan pria kelas atas. Salah satu penggemar fanatiknya adalah Leonardo Atmaja, seorang penerus dari perusahaan perhiasan terkenal di ibu kota. Leonardo sangat menyukai Velope sampai ingin menjalanin hubungan cinta dengannya. Namun, cinta mereka di tentang oleh Tuan Besar Atmaja. Terlebih, Leonardo telah dijodohkan dengan anak dari teman sesama pengusaha. Apakah Leon akan menyerah begitu saja karena cintanya tidak direstui keluarga? Lalu pada akhirnya apakah Leon dan Velope akan bisa bersama, walau cinta mereka terhalang restu dan status?

Eve Larson, all fire and defiance, is the ransom for her father’s life. When she’s forced into marriage with Dominik Grimaldi, a ruthless mafia don twice her age, he makes his terms clear. Total obedience, unwavering fidelity, and an heir within one year. Trapped in his opulent prison, Eve fights him with every breath, but Dominik is a master of the long game. Her defiance is his ultimate aphrodisiac, and he’s determined to shatter her resistance. He’ll use agonizing denial, strategic pleasure, and ruthless psychological warfare to reprogram her, body and soul. He doesn't just want her submission, he wants her addicted to him. But Dominik didn't just capture a pawn, he caged a queen. As their scorching battle of wills explodes from the bedroom into his vast empire, Eve's hatred sharpens into a weapon. She masters his games, challenges his control, and issues a deadly ultimatum that threatens to burn his world to the ground. The line between hate and obsession blurs into a feral, addictive passion. Will she be the ruin of his empire, or will she rise to rule it by his side?

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

Nami dan Samudra tidak sengaja tertukar ponsel saat sama-sama mengunjungi sebuah restoran. Hal tersebut menyebabkan keduanya harus rutin berkomunikasi dan bertukar peran satu sama lain. Samudra adalah seorang penyanyi jebolan anggota boyband berjumlah lima orang, penulis lagu, model, sekaligus pemimpin sebuah agensi musik. Sementara Nami adalah seorang karyawan sebuah perusahaan yang memiliki lingkungan kerja toksik. Keduanya bertukar peran di pekerjaan sampai ke dunia pertemanan dan keluarga. Gara-gara ponsel yang tertukar, dimana Samudra yang terbang ke Milan sepulangnya dari restoran. Samudra jadi mengetahui tentang kekasihnya yang telah berpaling ke lain hati, tentang lingkungan kerja salah satu perusahaan yang sangat buruk, dan tentang ibunya Nami yang sangat tidak mencerminkan sikap lembut seorang ibu. Apa saja kah perubahan yang terjadi selama tujuh hari diantara Nami dan Samudra?

Takdir mempertemukan mereka dengan cara yang tidak sempurna. Walau telah jadi artis idola, Erick Hayes atau dikenal sebagai Erick Ardian tidak begitu saja puas dengan hidupnya. Ketika sang pacar, Tarra Lalita, Go Internasional, ia juga ingin mengganti image-nya yang seorang playboy dan artis film dewasa menjadi artis film religi. Namun sejak itulah masalah dimulai. Erick dipertemukan dengan seorang author online berjilbab bernama pena Dara Jamila. Namun wanita itu menolak tokoh utama novelnya diperankan oleh Erick. Pertemuan demi pertemuan membuat keduanya saling benci, tapi sebuah kecelakaan membuat Erick harus bertanggung jawab menikahi Dara yang bernama asli Kaemila Andjani karena lumpuh dan hilang ingatan. Bagaimana kisah mereka selanjutnya? Mampukah Kae sembuh, dan maukah ia menerima Erick sebagai suaminya?

Merida was a certified black sheep of the family. She loves to hear her grandmother's story about fairies, dragons, pirates and princesses and her favorite was the tale about the legendary pirate named Escarial, and a Princess called Athalia. Listening to her grandma’s folktales was her routine all throughout her eighteen years of existence. That’s why when her grandmother died without having at least a last talk with her, she turned badly depressed. She didn’t go to school at all, and just stayed in her grandmother’s room to lock herself away from the rest of the world. Three days after her grandmother’s funeral, strange things happened in her room. The painting her old woman often gazed on suddenly moved and glowed. She succumbed to it, helpless, and had nothing to do to save herself because of the force that was beyond overwhelming. The next thing she knew, she was in North Sonnenfield. What’s more shocking to her was the name she’s called as by her servants; Princess Athalia—the heir of the throne, and the only daughter of King Eldar of North Sonnenfield. She was in awe, because she remembered that King Eldar was the character in the story. The palace where she found herself lost was the same place where the brave princess who ventured the dangerous sea had lived. She loves being in a Sonnenfield. However, she knew to herself that the day will come when she would wake up from a dream. But life always has a twist because Captain Escarial came to the scene. She expects that he will be gentleman just like pirate captain in the book. But to her horror, this Captain Escarial is snobbish, rude and proud. Oh, how she hates him!

She took vows to serve God. He built an empire serving only himself. Sister Seraphine thought she buried her sins the moment she entered the convent. Silence, prayer, and devotion became her shield against a past that would never forgive her. Until Cassian Vale walked into her world-billionaire, sinner, and the very embodiment of temptation. He wanted her innocence. She wanted redemption. But the moment their eyes met, both of them knew-this was no holy ground. In a city where cathedrals hide corruption and holy men are devils in disguise, Seraphine and Cassian are bound by a dangerous truth: sometimes, salvation doesn't come from God... It comes from sin.

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