Idol Life Novels & Stories

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?

Kembali menjadi manajer bukanlah pilihan bagi Hazel Elizabeth. Tapi ketika Orion Entertainment menawarkan posisi sebagai manajer pribadi Nicholas Alexander, idola legendaris yang tak tertandingi, Hazel terpaksa menerima. Dia tak pernah menyangka pekerjaan ini hanyalah jebakan Nick, mantan pacar kontraknya, untuk menghidupkan kembali hubungan mereka yang penuh luka. Di tengah gemerlap panggung hiburan, dendam lama, cinta yang tak terungkap, dan konflik karier bertabrakan dalam sebuah kisah yang menantang batas antara profesionalitas dan hati.

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?

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?

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?

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

i·dol·a·try īˈdälətrē noun : An extreme admiration, love, or reverence for someone. "She was afraid her attraction towards him was increasing to idolatry." UNEDITED

"Morning kiss. Utang yang harus kamu bayar lunas sebelum keluar dari apartemen saya." Meira mengira pertemuan itu hanya kesepakatan gila yang terjadi satu kali saja, cukup memberikan satu kecupan manis masalah terselesaikan. Namun, kenyataan seakan menampar realita. Meira justru dipertemukan kembali dengan pria itu yang kini berstatus sebagai dosen pengganti di kampus ia belajar. Akankah asmara penuh cinta di bawah meja kampus sampai pada titik paling membara? Atau justru berakhir duka untuk cinta yang penuh rahasia?

I've been married to Salvatore Falcone for seven years. He's a mafia Don who drills raw terror into everyone's minds. While I'm the Donna whom he has announced to the world, in truth, I'm just a mistress who serves as his human shield that can warm his bed on the side. Salvatore has betrayed me countless times over the past seven years. The first betrayal occurred when he took my ring off on our first wedding anniversary and gave it to one of the escorts in the clubhouse on a whim. The second betrayal occurred when I collapsed in the kitchen out of exhaustion. Instead of saving me, Salvatore blamed me for not preparing the hangover tonic for him in time, so he had someone dump iced water onto me to wake me up. The third betrayal occurred when I suffered from massive bleeding when I was five months pregnant. When I begged Salvatore to go to the hospital with me, he told me that he was keeping Valentina Caruso, his childhood sweetheart, company while her cat was getting fixed. For 2500 days, I swallowed all of my grievances, agony, and tears. Last night, at the banquet of our seventh wedding anniversary, Salvatore had taken Valentina's hand and sat her down on the Donna's throne that was meant to be mine. At that moment, everyone looked forward to seeing me humiliate myself. This was the 101st time he betrayed me. After the banquet was over, Salvatore didn't even bother looking me in the eye. He just said icily, "Don't forget that you're only a mistress to me despite our marriage." At the crack of dawn, Salvatore wakes up with a hangover. He tosses his soiled shirt at me out of habit. "Wash this shirt immediately. I'm going to wear it tonight." As I gaze at him, I caress my belly, which is slightly swollen. "Sorry, Mr. Falcone. This is no longer my duty." Salvatore most likely has forgotten that we've signed a contract when we first got married. The clause states that we will get divorced seven years later. Today is the third day before our contract comes to an end. I toss the marriage certificate and the pregnancy report into the shredder on the spot. In three days, my unborn baby and I will disappear from Salvatore's world permanently. This time, I will never look back.