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Takut dengan yang namanya pernikahan membuatku sampai hari ini memutuskan untuk sendiri, bahkan ketika saudara sepupu yang seumuran denganku saling bertukar cerita tentang anak-anak mereka, aku hanya bisa menjadi seorang pendengar dan mengulas senyum tipis sekadar membalas pertanyaan "kapan nikah?". Aku bahkan tidak bisa mengatakan pada siapapun tentang ketakutanku, tidak pada ayahku, apalagi ibuku. Ada apa denganku? Apa yang selama ini ku terima dari sikap kerabat ayahku lah yang menjadi salah satu alasan kuat trauma tentang pernikahan yang bahkan sejengkal pun belum ku tapaki. Kejadian demi kejadian membuatku semakin enggan menjalin komitmen dengan siapapun, mungkin sampai aku menemukan rumah yang tepat untukku pulang.

"Has anyone heard of this city?! No one seems to remember it, and something horrific might have happened to it."

Fira bernasib malang, di usia belia ia diperlakukan tidak adil oleh lingkungan hidupnya karena ayahnya sakit jiwa. Ia terpaksa bekerja di sebuah restoran Cina demi membantu ibu mencari nafkah.

"Martin, you're getting married within two weeks. What are you going to do about the woman outside?" Stacy Lynd paused at those words, even as a man answered indifferently, "Just keep your mouth shut. She won't know if none of you breathe a word." Behind the door, Stacy's tears blurred her vision. Never did she expect that the man she loved for years was going to treat her like a side chick. At that point, she truly understood, and went on to burn her accounts. It was not until afterward that Stacy realized she wasn't the one who couldn't get over that doomed relationship.

Rai’s worst day was not the one she woke up blind, but the moment she realized she’d married a monster. For the past seven years, she has escaped Cliff, her corrupt, sociopathic husband who refuses to divorce her. The last thing she needs now is another relationship, but some men are hard to resist. Gideon senses Rai’s apprehension, but that doesn’t deter him. It fuels his curiosity. What starts out as an innocent five-day cruise, soon turns into an attraction that could destroy them both. Cliff is clever, deadly, and resourceful. To defeat him, Rai must find courage and trust Gideon, even though his protective devotion might get them both killed.

"I may be blind, Rain, but trust me, I’ll never miss the right hole or the perfect positions to put you in. My eyes don’t stop me from taking you until your legs give out. Open wide for me, wifey." Enzo Salvatore DeLuca, the ruthless billionaire mafia don, was untouchable—until the accident that stole his sight. Now, with time running out, he needs an heir to secure his legacy, and Rain is forced to take her stepsister's place as his bride. Rain always dreamed of a Christmas wedding with the perfect husband, but marrying a blind stranger wasn’t in her fantasies. How could a man who couldn’t see fulfill her wildest desires? He’d need help with everything, and she couldn’t imagine how he’d live up to the man she’d always fantasized about. What she doesn’t know is that he sees every move she makes, from the constant bite of her lips whenever he talks, to the way she walks around naked in the room, thinking he wouldn’t see her anyway, down to the way she watches him with longing whenever he’s changing. What he lacks in sight, he makes up for in raw intensity, dominance, and an ability to give her everything she never dared to ask for. He doesn’t do love. He doesn’t do gentle. But with Rain, he might just find more than the healing he never thought possible, and the revenge he had been seeking. "If you ask me, the only reason I need eyes is to see your eyes rolling back when I fuck you. But for now, baby girl, I want to hear it. Let me hear you moan for me.”

It never crossed Danielle's mind that she would cross paths with her arch-rival, Karl, a business mogul in Northtide. Sparks flew but in more ways than one. One day, a reporter asked during an interview, "Mr. Burt, on behalf of the women, what is an ideal woman to you?" "Someone like my wife." Thus, Karl's secret marriage to Danielle spread across the world.

Carson Meyer, heir to the strongest underworld mafia in America. He is known for his ruthless and rough behavior. Slaying people is a piece of cake for him. He does not make any exceptions, not once. Now his father, the current head of the mafia racket, is worried about his son. He wants his son to think rationally before taking blood on his hands. The only answer he could find to that was MARRIAGE. He demands his son to get married if he wants to inherit his business. Carson looked up to too many girls he slept with without any emotions or pleasure but out of exhaustion. He couldn’t find a single woman that could interest him with loyalty and obedience. Sleeping with him for a night or two was legal to the girls but spending their whole life with a psychopath wasn’t. Just then his eyes rested on an innocent beauty getting auctioned. He buys her and the marriage goes smoothly as he was getting fond of her innocence and obedience. But then, the wedding night revealed a harsh truth. He got to know Luna Blake, the girl he bought is blind. The betrayal he felt overwhelmed his thinking. What will he do now? He surely can’t divorce her or he will lose his inheritance. But he also can’t keep her as his wife. Will this slave and master contract serve him the delicacies he urges for? Or will this be the other way around?

Ashley Leon Waller lives his life like he always did for four years with work keeping him busy. When a young woman, Amaya Bailey Whitmore, walked into his life he never thought that his life could get worse than it already was. However, only months after he first met her, he was proven completely wrong...

Solene severe finizy priemmo is an ordinary woman. Isang ordinaryong babae na naniniwalang mag-mula nang mamulat siya sa mundo, puro kamalasan lamang ang nagaganap sa buhay niya. Ang miserableng buhay niya ay mas lumala pa ng tumira siya sa tiyahin. Not until realization hits her, she needs to live with her own and no one can dictate what she needs to do. Ang tadhana na mismo ang gumawa ng paraan para mag-tagpo ang mga landas nila ng lalaking may kulay abong mata na tila humihigop sa kanya kapag sila'y nag-kakatitigan. She met Hyde amoushe strovinstell. A multibillionaire heir and the CEO of Riotte Strovinstell, a well-known and successful five-star hotel chain throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Natuto siyang lumaban at higit sa lahat natuto siyang muling mag-mahal at buksan ang sarili para sa mga bagay-bagay. Not ever since when her cruel past has been spilled little by little, everything went lost in its place. She desperately desired to flee but she knew she couldn't... P.S. I do not own the pic. Credits to the owner of the pic used in book cover : )