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The dangers of social media, rebellion and fake friends all come into play in this novel. Chinyere Awaziem is a rebellious teenager and the youngest daughter of ten children. One day, due to Chinyere's rebellion and ignorance, she ends up being abducted and a victim of human trafficking. After being bought by a wealthy old man, she finds herself in a house full of women who went through the same fate. Chinyere is forced into marriage and plots to escape from her buyer's home. But what happens when she finds out that being bought by them is not just a coincidence? What happens when she finds out that their families are linked in more than one way? COMPLETED!

The room reeked of spilled champagne and poor decisions. Siena Blake blinked against the harsh morning light slicing through velvet curtains, her body aching in places she didn’t want to think about. She wasn’t in her bed. She wasn’t even in her house. And the man lying beside her—a stranger with a dangerously perfect face—was the proof. It was supposed to be her bachelorette party. One night of wild abandon with her friends before tying the knot with the man she’d loved since childhood. Instead, she had woken up in the arms of someone else, with no memory of how she got there. But that wasn’t the worst part. The worst came later—when she found police outside her house, her father being dragged away in handcuffs, and her fiancé, Zane, sending her a venom-laced message: “You’re a whore, Siena. Return the ring or I’ll leak the footage.” Within hours, her life was in ruins. Her family disgraced. Her heart shattered. And the man from that night? Lucian Voss—the most feared CEO in the country—stood behind it all, either by fate or by design. What started as an accident would become her obsession. Because five years later, she’s coming back… With a secret child. A mission for revenge. And a dangerous deal with the devil who unknowingly fathered her baby.

My husband's true love had kidney cancer 30 years ago. He gave up his fortune so she could participate in a cryogenic freezing experiment. He even tricked me into signing an organ donation consent form. "You're contributing to the country's scientific research!" Today, technology is much more advanced. My husband decides to revive his true love and treat her cancer. He also asks me to have my kidney transplanted in her body. After I say no, my son frowns. "How can you be so selfish? It's just a kidney." My husband is furious. "You're already dying, but her life will restart once she's revived from the cryogenic freezing!" My family forces me into the operation theater. My husband's even the one who handles the surgery. What he doesn't know is that I've already donated a kidney for the sake of his career. He loses his mind once he slices my abdomen open.

I'd been married to Matteo—the Lamberti Don—for five years. No one knew I was his wife. I didn't want the perks. The spotlight. So I stayed invisible. We were in love. Still felt like dating every single day. Then my first day at the new hospital wrecked everything. "Dr. Accardi, you won't believe this." A coworker leaned in, grinning. "Guess who that new patient's husband is? Matteo freaking Lamberti." I froze. If she was his wife—then who was I? She was pregnant. Carrying the future Lamberti heir. So what did that make the baby inside me? I held it together. Did the exam. Played the calm, capable doctor. No one saw the panic clawing through me. I told myself it was gossip. Lies. It had to be. Then I heard Matteo call her 'my princess.' That was it. He had a new 'princess.' And I had to let him go.

After landing a major project for the company, I receive a ring from my girlfriend, Kiera Ripley. I happily share a picture of it on my socials, thinking she was finally going to announce our engagement. But Kiera's newly hired assistant, Trevor Horton, suddenly slaps me hard and overturns my entire work desk. "You're a director, for God's sake! Don't you feel the least bit ashamed, stealing the present my wife gave me?" Trevor snaps. Not only does Kiera not retort to Trevor's words, but she even says I am not fit for my position as director of the tech department. She then announces to all the staff that Trevor will be taking over the project I just secured for the company. Only then do I realize that the person Kiera wants to publicly announce as her boyfriend isn't me, but Trevor instead. All the staff immediately raise their phones to record me, enjoying the spectacle that is my misfortune. But instead of getting angry, I shove my nametag into Trevor's hands and say, "Since Mr. Horton will be taking over the project, you can take over my position as director as well. I wish you two a long and happy life together!"

Julia tak pernah menyangka, suatu malam yang seharusnya hanya menjadi kesalahan, membawanya pada mimpi buruk yang rasanya tak pernah berakhir. Ia tak pernah menyangka pria asing yang bersamanya malam itu adalah seorang Maverick Langston Stonewell, atasan barunya di kantor. Bagi Maverick, pertemuan itu bukanlah suatu kebetulan, melainkan sebuah takdir. Sejak malam itu, ia tak bisa menghapus bayangan Julia dari pikirannya. Ia ingin Julia. Bukan hanya di kantor, tetapi dalam hidupnya, selamanya. Sementara Julia mencoba menjaga batas, Maverick semakin sulit dikendalikan. Apa yang dimulai dari satu malam, berubah menjadi perang batin antara rasa bersalah, manipulasi dan cinta yang berbalut obsesi. Karena bagi Maverick, jika ia telah menyentuhmu sekali, maka kamu tak akan pernah bisa lepas dari jangkauannya.

On my twentieth birthday, my parents placed a stack of photos in front of me—eligible bachelors from elite families all over the country—and told me to pick one for an arranged marriage. I told my dad to leave it to fate and draw lots. In my past life, I had chosen without hesitation the man I’d long admired: Lucas Whitmore, the most eligible bachelor of Astor Hill's elites. But after we got married, I found out the truth. His first love—the girl he had always held dear, Claire Monroe—was devastated by our marriage. One night, heartbroken, she went out drinking and was assaulted by a group of thugs. Claire attempted suicide three times after that. And Lucas blamed it all on me. He handed over my family’s fortune to Claire, draining every last cent from the Meyers. In the end, Lucas even helped her cut the brake lines on our car. My parents and I died in that crash. Now that I’d been given a second chance at life, the name I drew was Liam Morgan—the reclusive heir from Orchard Valley, known for shunning the world and dedicating himself to Buddhism. But when I showed up arm-in-arm with Liam at our engagement party, Lucas lost his mind.

Fed up with her abusive husband, twenty-three-year-old Cara Hellington runs away from home and ends up in a notorious bar, destitute, sad, but relieved and free. When she gets into a verbal altercation with the snotty bartender over the ownership of her credit cards, an unlikely savior comes to her aid. Eros Kazan Alfred. He's tall, massive, rippling with muscles, and covered with dark tattoos. Everything Cara is not used to. Everything Cara is drawn to. When he buys her dinner, and she narrates her ordeal, Eros propositions her to marry him, and he'll make sure her abusive ex never sees or gets close to her again. But Cara is hesitant. Eros is a stranger. And judging from his appearance, he looks like trouble. The muddy kind. She should run towards the opposite direction, away from him. But she runs right onto his bed. After a hot sizzling night together, Cara is comfortable and confident in him taking good care of her. But tensions are rising all around them, as significant figures from their past will stop at nothing to bring them both down. Will they succumb under the wickedly twisted circumstances fate seems to be throwing at them?

"May, lo suka apartemen baru gue?" Sambil mengunyah nasi goreng bikinan Panji lima belas menit yang lalu, aku mengangguk. Aku benar menyukai apartemen baru Panji pada kunjungan pertamanya kali ini. konsep monokrom yang menenangkan dan bikin pengin. "Kalau lo suka, tinggal di apartemen gue. Mau?" Kunyahanku langsung terhenti, untung enggak keselek. Tapi, ini bukan jenis topik yang biasa Panji dominasi. Memutar stool, aku tatap saksama dia. Aku nggak salah dengar, kan? "Buat apa?" Diam-diam batinku menjerit. Apa Panji sedang melamarku? Serius? Dengan cara konyol tapi mendebarkan begini? Astaga. Kakiku langsung dingin. "Em, gini, gue nggak percaya cinta. Lo takut disakiti cowok. Dan ... kita saling cocok. I think, kita bisa tinggal bersama. Di apartemen ini. Gimana?" Dan aku membisu. *** Tahun baru dan Bali menciptakan pertemuan pertama Maya dengan Panji. Lima bulan berlalu, Maya kembali bertemu Panji. Pertemuan kedua yang menjaring kedekatan satu sama lain. Bagi Maya, Panji adalah pria yang membuatnya kembali merasakan bunga cinta sekaligus resahnya di tinggalkan. Sementara bagi Panji, bertemu Maya cukup membuatnya mengajak Maya untuk tetap berada di sisinya. Termasuk dengan memberi penawaran sebuah kesepakatan yang ternyata justru membuat Maya berada pada situasi rumit. Friends with benefits. Tinggal bersama tanpa adanya pernikahan. Semua makin sulit saat Andreas--sahabatnya Maya yang lain-- mulai ikut campur urusan percintaan cewek tersebut. Karena bagi Andreas, Maya berhak bahagia dan terlepas dari ikatan tidak pasti yang Panji berikan.

Annabel Rivers is known as the ugly fat girl in her school and happens to be the easy prey for bullies. She secretly falls in love with Frank Kingston who happen to be the popular kid from the richest family in Avalon. She stays away from him because he had bullied her when they were in the fifth grade, but in as much as she hates him for that, she still finds herself daydreaming about him. Frank happens to have a bet with his friends that he could sleep with her before prom and everything seems to work out smoothly as they were paired up to be partners for a practical in school. Now Frank gets close with Annabel and sees that she doesn't deserve what he was planning to do to her and that she had a beautiful soul which made him feel very free around her and tell her how much he hated his father for making him feel unwanted, little did he know that he was already in love with her, little did she know that everything started out as a bet. What will she do when she finds out?