House Haunted Hill

“Fall for me in the same way I loved you, so you can feel the pain and despair you put me through, before I take your life.” ~--~ Sylvia’s world revolved around her husband, Duke Alec Winston. For a lifetime, she gave him everything despite his infidelity. But in the end, when she wasn’t necessary for his plans, he plunged a sword through her flesh without a single parting word. That should’ve been the end. Yet Sylvia finds herself regressed, back to her ten-year-old self living in the slums of the Rezine Empire. With the lingering sting of betrayal in her heart and the memory of dying imprinted in her mind, she decides to eliminate the source of her misfortune while atoning for her past life’s sins. Even if it means going against known and hidden powers within the empire. To start, she needs allies worth their salt and the backing of her family, the duchy of House Lundren. But despite her knowledge of the future and a lifetime’s worth of experience, Sylvia soon realizes that she knew so little. For there are secrets she’s yet to discover, stories she’s yet to hear, and prices yet to be paid. After all, a human living past death over and over is nothing short of an anomaly, and a power that can grant it won’t come for free. Death wasn’t the end. For Sylvia, it was the beginning. And a curse.

My girlfriend found out that my water bottle cost $30,000. She then demanded I buy her father an $8 million luxury apartment in the city center. I politely refused. She said furiously, “Don’t be so stingy! He’ll be your father-in-law someday. What’s wrong with getting a head start on being a good son-in-law?” She even compiled all of our expenses during our relationship into a PowerPoint presentation and demanded we split everything. “If splitting everything equally is too much trouble for you, then just cover it all. You can afford it! “My family and I have already discussed it. I’ll give you a one-dollar gift. It means you're my only one. How perfect is that?” When she noticed I was silent, she played her final card. “If you can’t agree, then let’s forget about getting married. “You’ll never see me, your darling baby, ever again!” I looked at the detailed list of expenses on the screen. It even included $2 she had spent on a bus ride to see me. I smiled and said, “Sure. I’ll give you a $143-million gift, with more romantic meaning. And I’ll buy that apartment for your father right now.”

When my husband and I drop by his childhood home for Christmas dinner, my mother-in-law, Melissa Potter, is the only one busying away in the kitchen. Everyone else is on their phones. I've just taken a seat when Melissa begins to lecture me. "What, are you just going to sit your ass down and wait for food to come? Don't you know when to lend a helping hand? Am I supposed to exhaust myself for your sake?" From time to time, she keeps rattling the pots and pans loudly. "I can't believe those with healthy bodies want a 70-year-old like me to serve them! Does anyone here have any conscience?" Feeling a little uneasy, I gave my husband a tiny nudge. "Why don't you help Mom out?" After Melissa hears my suggestion, she gets even more pissed off. Thinking that this is my first Christmas with my in-laws, I don't really want to cause a scene here, so I get up to my feet and help her out. But the moment I enter the kitchen, Melissa delegates all the tasks to me. I endure my fury as much as I can while finishing the Christmas dinner preparations. When I'm about to head back to the dining table and dig in, Melissa suddenly speaks up. "Hold up. We got scores to settle before dinner."

Half a year after our divorce, my ex-husband became a trending topic online. His current wife, who had just given birth, jumped off a building. When she jumped, she was clutching a printed, 98-page copy of the "Cloves Family Code of Conduct." The reason for her suicide? She couldn’t buy discounted groceries online. A reporter came to interview me and asked, "Excuse me, were you also given the same family rules?"

Hatred, sacrifices, family's love and hell. 'Yon ang naging definition ni Erica Dhana Hermés sa buhay niya. Matapos s'yang ipakasal ng magulang niya sa lalaking kinaiinisan niya. Noon paman isa na itong bully, na mayabang na antipatiko na walang ibang ginawa kun'di ang saktan ang damdamin niya. Ngunit ng muli niya itong makita sa araw ng engagement party nila, hanggang sa makasal sila at magsama sa iisang bobong ay ibang Axel Charles Hill na ito. A stranged one a dangerous one. But who is she? She is not just Erica Hermés. May happy ending kaya sa kanilang dalawa? May puwang pa ba ang pag-ibig sa dalawang tigreng puso nila? LET'S THE WAR BEGGIN! SexyBeast series 2: The Gay doctor Desperada na kung desperadang tawagin ang kahibangan ni Cathy kay Edward Alcantara. Dahil kahit siya ay hindi kayang labanan ang sariling puso na nagwawala sa tuwing nakikita niya ito. Simula pa lang alam na niyang bakla si Edward, na malabong masuklian ang pagmamahal niya para rito. Doon pa lang sa isiping iyon parang hinahalukay na ng kutsilyo ang puso niya. Sinubukan niyang kalimutan ito, ngunit sa nakalipas na sampung taon at sa muli nilang pagkikita ay mas lalo lang lumala ang nararamdaman niya para sa isang bakla na ngayon ay doctor na. Na mas lalo pang sumusigaw at nang-aakit ang kamachohan at ang pagka-strikto nito. Kung guwapo ito noon ay mas umaangat ang kaguwapuhan nito ngayon. Nagsimula na siyang mabaliw ulit rito, nagsimula na siyang habul-habulin si Edward. Pero kahit anong paganda at pasexy ang gawin niya gaya lang rin ng inaasahan walang epekto ito sa isang bakla. Mas lalo lang siyang binalewala nito. Hanggang saan siya maghahabol? Hanggang kailan siya lalaban sa pag-ibig na walang kasiguraduhan? O susuko na lang ba siya at kakalimutan ang baklang doctor na kinabaliwan niya…

“How can you tell me you never wanted it when you can’t deny that you loved every second of it, my love? Shyne, no one will ever make you feel the way I do, and I’ll spend every moment proving it. Not even time and death can separate us.” Shyne De Leon runs away from her past and her ex-lover by using her family’s power and influence to start a new life far away from her hometown. The memories and promises that her ex has given her made running away more difficult. A few years have passed, and the guilt of what she left behind started to haunt her. Her ex Rian Batista and their past rendezvous began to appear in her dreams more frequently. The dreams became darker, and Shyne started to have ghostly hallucinations of the man she had left. When the torture of her dreams became too much, her family’s money and influence could no longer save her from her own past and mind. As the untold past starts to unfold, will she kiss the truth and embrace her past? Or will she wallow in regret and enter her ex-lover’s offered damnation?

In the underground casino, my ex-fiancé Don Dante Castellano threw the card in my face. His arm was around Sabrina—his first love—and his eyes were ice as they shoved me toward the table. "Your father owed mine a life. The thing in your belly isn't mine." He pressed the card flat against my cheek. "The daughter pays the father's debt. Tonight you're the living chip on that table." The paternity test was fake. The child was his. I knew. He didn't believe me. That night, with a gun pointed at my head, I took off all my clothes in front of everyone. Two years passed. Two years later, in Vegas, he saw me again. I was in a red silk dress with a gold chain around my neck, the other end of the chain held by a yellow-toothed gambler. "This bitch is cheap. Bark for me, and all these chips are yours." I picked up the chips, practiced. "Woof. Woof." Sabrina pressed her face into his chest, covering her nose. "Dante. This is disgusting. Let's go." He didn't go. The veins rose along his temple. He was staring at the bruises on my knees. Then he kicked the gambler across the room. He bent down and took hold of my chin. Hard. "Sienna. Money, and you'll do anything at all?" He was close enough that I could smell him. Soap. Two years, and still the same soap. I closed my eyes, opened them, pulled my mouth into a smile for him. "That's right, boss. Pay up and I'll cooperate with whatever position you want. Care to buy a round?"

What if you were held captive by your own family? Emma Rawlins has spent the last year a prisoner. The months following her mother's death dragged her father into a paranoid spiral of conspiracy theories and doomsday premonitions. Obsessing him, controlling him, they now whisper the end days are finally at hand. And he doesn’t intend to face them alone. Emma finds herself drugged and dragged to a secluded cabin, the last refuge from a society supposedly due to collapse. Their cabin a snowbound fortress, her every move controlled, but even that isn't enough to weather the end of the world. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing Everything she knows is out of reach, lost beyond a haze of white. There is no choice but to play her father's game while she plans her escape. But there is a force far colder than the freezing drifts. Ancient, ravenous, it knows no mercy. And it's already had a taste...

What could be more devastating than watching your lover being shot by a masked man right before your very eyes in the dead of night? Everly isn't just confronted with a daunting reality that shatters her hope for a future with Edwin, but one that also sets her on a new path. In an unexpected turn of events, she relinquishes her dream of being a model and becomes a prosecutor driven by the desire to apprehend Edwin's murderer. However, fate intervenes, and every step she takes seems to lead her to her father, Hubbard. Will she find it in her heart to forgive him for taking away her only source of happiness, or will she ensure that he pays the full price for his actions?

Hanna tak pernah merasakan kebebasan apapun dalam hidupnya, apalagi setelah jodohnya ditentukan dari wasiat almarhum sang ayah. Dengan berat hati, ia pun harus rela bertunangan dengan Solar, seorang calon pewaris perusahaan ternama se-Asia. Awalnya, ia berpikir kalau Solar hanyalah lelaki dingin yang irit bicara, tidak pernah tersenyum, dan workholic. Namun semakin lama bersamanya, Hanna menyadari bahwa Solar menyimpan banyak luka di balik topeng dinginnya, terlebih setelah terungkap sebuah fakta bahwa Solar adalah saudara tiri dari Aufan, sahabatnya. Namun, ketika ibunya membebaskan Hanna memilih untuk melepas atau melanjutkan pertunangan ini, pilihan apa yang akan Hanna pilih? Apakah pertunangan mereka akan berakhir begitu saja? Mampukah mereka merajut asmara hingga hari pernikahan tiba?