Inferno By Dan Brown

Yishu seharusnya mati karena kecelakaan setelah berpesta semalaman. Namun, Ia malah terbangun sebagai Lu Shuyi, tokoh perempuan gendut yang mati karena kebodohannya. Tidak ingin berakhir menyedihkan ia memutuskan mengubah takdirnya. Difitnah, diremehkan, dan hampir dihancurkan, ia tetap melawan. Saat kebenaran terungkap dan perceraian disahkan di depan raja, seluruh istana sadar bahwa perempuan gendut yang mereka hina adalah orang yang akan berdiri di puncak kekuasaan.

Musim dingin telah tiba lagi. Setiap musim dingin, suami dan putraku akan mengalami alergi terhadapku tanpa alasan yang jelas. Seluruh tubuh mereka akan dipenuhi ruam dan penyebab alerginya tidak diketahui sampai sekarang. Oleh karena itu, mereka menjaga jarak denganku dan pindah ke rumah lain. Bahkan ketika aku jatuh dan kepalaku berlumuran darah, mereka juga tidak kembali. Meskipun aku dirawat di rumah sakit setelah kecelakaan mobil, aku tetap harus menghadapinya sendirian. Kami menjadi keluarga yang paling asing karena aku bisa membunuh mereka. Aku menanggung dinginnya musim dingin sendirian dan menunggu dalam kesepian. Aku tidak berhenti berharap musim semi yang hangat akan membawa kembali keluargaku yang tercinta. Namun, aku tidak sengaja mendengar percakapan mereka. "Papa, kita cuma bisa ketemu Mama Nancy di musim dingin setiap tahun. Memangnya kita nggak bisa buat alergi ini berlangsung sedikit lebih lama lagi?" Mama Nancy? Teman masa kecil suamiku? Suamiku mengacak-acak rambut putra kami. "Mengonsumsi terlalu banyak obat alergi itu nggak baik. Mama Nancy juga akan khawatir. Papa akan bawa kamu kemari kalau ada waktu." Putraku pun bertepuk tangan. "Hore! Aku paling suka permen mangga di musim dingin! Dengan begitu, aku bisa bertemu Mama Nancy lagi!" Mangga adalah alergen mematikan yang selama ini berusaha kuhindarkan dari putraku! Setelah berdiri lama di tengah angin dingin, aku diam-diam pulang. Ketika musim semi kembali, aku menarik kembali semua perhatianku. "Makan saja apa pun yang kamu mau. Kalau kamu merasa aku menganiaya anak, silakan hubungi polisi. Aku nggak mau hak asuhmu."

Empat tahun menjalani hubungan rahasia, akhirnya tiba di hari yang Ziana nantikan. Hari di mana Farel akan mengumumkan hubungan mereka. Namun, Farel justru mengabaikan nyawa Ziana demi wanita lain. Pria itu sengaja membuat kecelakaan mobil dan berpura-pura amnesia. Saat Ziana terbaring terluka di rumah sakit, Farel justru merangkul kekasih barunya. Dia juga bertaruh dengan teman-temannya bahwa Ziana akan tetap mengejar cintanya meski sudah disakiti. Farel tidak tahu, sejak Ziana menyadari bahwa amnesia itu palsu, wanita itu sudah memutuskan untuk pergi selamanya. Farel tidak tahu, saat dia memamerkan kemesraan dengan orang lain, Ziana telah membuang barang kenangan mereka. Farel tidak tahu, saat dia mendorong Ziana ke pelukan orang lain, wanita itu sedang dipojokkan dengan penuh godaan oleh pria lain. Farel tidak tahu, saat dia menunggu Ziana merendahkan diri untuk memohon padanya, wanita itu justru sedang memilih gaun pengantin. Ketika Ziana mencapai puncak kariernya dan menjadi miliarder wanita termuda di daftar orang terkaya, Farel dengan penuh percaya diri berlutut dengan satu kaki untuk melamarnya. "Ziana, ingatanku sudah pulih. Menikahlah denganku." Ziana membelai cincin berlian sepuluh karat di jarinya. Sebelum dia sempat menjawab, seorang pria dari belakang merangkul pinggangnya dengan sangat posesif. "Pergi! Kakak Iparmu nggak sudi melihat barang kotor sepertimu!"

In the high-stakes world of politics and royalty, two young men from opposite worlds find themselves drawn together by fate. Alexander "Alex" Morgan, the golden boy of American politics, struggles under the weight of his father’s expectations and his own repressed desires. Meanwhile, Prince Liam of Norway, the rebellious crown prince, battles the constraints of royal duty and his playboy reputation. When a chance encounter at a gay-friendly bar leads to a passionate night, neither man is prepared for the fallout when their identities are revealed. As jealousy and ambition threaten to tear them apart, they must confront their families, their secrets, and their feelings. Will they choose love over duty, or will societal expectations keep them apart?

“Your body is made to carry my pup! Do that without objection and leave after giving birth to him,” Travis husked, his voice causing vibrations on earth. Rhea Duncan stared at him unblinkingly and scoffed, “I didn’t want to stay here anymore either. I’m still enduring your annoying nature because I have no choice.” • Rhea Duncan was inseminated by her best friend, Phoebe Barton, so that she could snatch her boyfriend from her. Her scheme was successful, but what Phoebe didn’t know was that she had just made her best friend a surrogate mother to the most eligible and enigmatic man in the country, and the alpha of his pack. What happens when a random human invades Alpha Travis’s world unexpectedly? What happens when Rhea Duncan realizes that the world she assumed was fiction is actually real, and she has just become a surrogate mother for the leader of that world? Will they accept that it is fate or just an accident?

Elena Hart is a genius scientist mired in debt and can't even afford her mother's life-saving surgery. Her rescuer can only be one man: Dominic Blackwood, a ruthless billionaire who doesn't believe in love but needs a wife for some mysterious reason that Elena can't fathom. When he offers to marry her for a relaxed, contractual wedding in exchange for paying off her debts, she signs on. What begins as a bargain slowly becomes something more when both of them begin questioning one another's faith, battling foes, and fighting emotions they had not expected. However, love's journey is not one to be taken lightly. With lies revealed, the foes closing in, and open wounds biting back, they must decide if love can conquer any pact.

LUNA: My entire life, I believed I was a simple human with a desire to assist shifters at the hospital where I work. But I could never have foreseen what fate had in store for me the moment I laid eyes on Blazes. For anyone of us. As soon as our worlds collided, all we could see was each other, and our destinies were soon intertwined by a curse that revealed my true identity. Mated to two shifters, it is up to us to break the curse placed on their pack before their demise is written in stone. BLAZE: With every male born into my pack, I can feel my grip on reality slipping, and I know that time is running out. As the future Alpha, it is my responsibility to track down the witch who has caused all of our sufferings and compel her to either break the curse or accept death. It was not part of the mission to find my mate, but it turns out that she is the only one who can save us, and she quickly becomes my addiction… My every desire… Mine. We are bound by our curse. And our passion will only lead us to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession, beyond our limits. SAFFRON: I can see how Blaze regards our mate, and I refuse to kiss the ground she walks on as he does. My body aches for her, I cannot deny it. Unfortunately for me, my wolf is loyal to the point of willing self-destruction to protect her. And when the time comes for us to fulfill our destinies and break the curse... Will I be able to succumb to my temptation and then turn it off like a dripping faucet once the ritual is over?

She thought she could endure a loveless marriage to repay her family’s debt—but she didn’t count on the cost of her heart. Once the proud daughter of a wealthy businessman, ELENA BRADFORD watched her life crumble when her father’s betrayal left her and her mother drowning in debt. Desperate to protect her family, she reluctantly agreed to a marriage contract with her father’s former business partner’s reckless son, ADRIAN HAWTHORNE—a man who once loved her during their university days but now only mocks her fall from grace. Trapped in a cold marriage filled with scorn and humiliation, Elena finds herself suffocating under the weight of Adrian’s cruelty. But everything changes at a high-profile dinner when she locks eyes with the one person she never thought she’d see again—LUCAS EVERHART, her childhood best friend, who once confessed his love before vanishing from her life. Now a powerful CEO, Lucas is stunned to see the woman he loved trapped in a toxic marriage. Learning of her misery, he vows to free her from the chains of her past—even if it means clashing with Adrian who refuses to let her go. As old feelings reignite and secrets unravel, Elena must decide: will she fight for the love she once believed in, or will her past mistakes keep her from the future she deserves?

Falling in love isn’t scary, falling in love with someone that would never love you back is. My name is Bella, and I’m about to tell you a story of love and hate, and a story of fire and dance.

By day, he's Chicago's most powerful billionaire. By night, he's the city's most dangerous protector. Elena Moretti has spent years fighting for the forgotten—rescuing at-risk youth from the violence that claimed her brother's life. She doesn't trust wealth, power, or the men who wield them. So when enigmatic billionaire Dante Salvatore walks into her struggling community center with a check that could change everything, she knows there's a catch. Men like him don't save neighborhoods out of the goodness of their hearts. But Elena doesn't know Dante's secret: by night, he becomes The Sentinel, a masked vigilante dismantling the criminal empire that murdered his sister. As their worlds collide and attraction ignites between them, Elena begins investigating the vigilante whose methods both terrify and fascinate her—never suspecting the man she's falling for and the man she's hunting are one and the same. When a ruthless crime syndicate discovers The Sentinel's identity, Elena becomes the bait in a deadly trap. Dante must risk everything to save her, but when Elena uncovers the truth about the man behind the mask, she's forced to decide: Can she love someone who lives in shadows? And can a man who's spent years seeking vengeance ever truly step into the light? In a pulse-pounding tale of passion, danger, and redemption, two wounded souls discover that the most dangerous risk isn't fighting for justice—it's fighting for love.