Isaiah 40:8

"Isaiah..." I breathe. He's so close, I can feel his hot breath mingling with mine. "What do you want, Kenna?" he murmurs, dark eyes flickering, his hands clenching tightly on the bench behind me. "For me to bend you over this counter and wake all my poor staff up?" *** Avia has one job. To seduce the Alpha. Part of a rebellious group, Avia has been given a job to gain the Alpha's trust, so they can take him down. Feigning being another girl of Noble birth, Avia finds herself in the Alpha's estate, but what happens, it hardly what she could have expected. The Alpha is devastatingly attractive, intense and passionate. And when the roles change, and he's seducing her, her jobs becomes a lot harder to do. But falling for such a dangerous Alpha doesn't come without a price.

Jatuh cinta dengan sahabat sendiri memang konyol. Namun, gadis pintar bernama Anara Emiley rela melakukan hal konyol tersebut selama delapan tahun lamanya. Daver Negarald. Laki-laki yang parasnya bak dewa Hermes, pemilik pesona yang memikat, mantan atlet kickboxing, serta misterius dan kaya raya. Semua manusia jelas pernah mengaguminya. Bukan salah Anara untuk memiliki perasaan tersebut. Akan tetapi, satu hal ini yang membuat Anara menyukai Daver. Laki-laki itu perhatian. Di saat latar belakang keluarganya hancur, Daver ada untuk menemani dan mendukungnya. Ketika Anara menaruh hatinya pada Daver selama beberapa tahun, Daver tidak pernah membalasnya. Hubungan persahabatan bertahun-tahun selama ini tidak membuat Daver jatuh hati pada Anara. Rupanya, ada satu alasan yang Daver miliki. Anara tahu alasan itu tetapi ia tetap mencintai Daver. Anara menerima risiko dan sabar. Barangkali ada saat di mana Daver mulai mencintainya, entah kapan. Dan ternyata.. memang ada saatnya.

I married Mason Fleming, who comes from a prestigious family with a long line of lawyers, at 19. For over 20 years, I devoted myself fully to our home by raising our child, keeping the household together, and supporting his career. Now I'm 40, and he cheats on me. Friends and relatives try to advise me. "Your husband is handsome and successful. He even lets you manage the money he earns. Compared to most men, he's considered one of the good ones." In other words, they want me to turn a blind eye and continue playing the role of a "good wife" to maintain appearances. But I can't keep up with the act anymore.

As I was cleaning up the house, I noticed something had fallen out of the cabinet my wife always kept locked tight. I remembered Megan's constant warnings. "That cabinet holds all our family's important records. If anything gets lost, there's no getting it back. Just leave it alone and don't touch it." Worried something valuable might have fallen out, I rushed to pick it up. But what I found was a thick stack of remittance slips. From forty years ago to now, every month, my wife had been sending money to the same account. And that's when it hit me. My wife had been lying to me. The money I'd been pouring into this family had been flowing right out, into the hands of someone else.

Незнакомый парень, встреченный однажды на вечеринке, стал моим наваждением! Увы, как его разыскать, никто не знал. А тут ещё и подруга озадачилась устройством моей личной жизни, пообещав сюрприз... Ненавижу сюрпризы!

Masih dapat kuhirup aroma tanah basah yang sore tadi kugenggam. Bayang-bayang batu nisan bertuliskan nama bapak juga masih jelas di depan mata. Hidup dalam teror selama 40 hari lamanya, ketika kehadiran pocong Bapak terus muncul dan menghantui mulai menguak misteri yang lebih dalam. Ada sesuatu yang masih menahannya. Apakah itu penyesalan, amarah, atau rahasia yang tak pernah terucap semasa hidupnya? Kegelapan yang terus menghantui adalah jawaban yang harus diungkap sebelum semuanya terlambat.  Bersiaplah menghadapi ketakutan yang paling dekat—ketika yang sudah mati enggan pergi.

Saat sedang membantu istriku mengelap komputer, aku tidak sengaja membuka sebuah folder. Isi folder itu adalah video-video yang sangat mengejutkan. Pemeran utama dalam video itu adalah istriku dan sahabatku yang masih lajang. Sejak melahirkan, istriku mengatakan tubuhnya terlalu lemah untuk melakukan hubungan suami istri. Jadi, kami pun hanya menjalani hubungan platonic. Selama 40 tahun penuh, aku tidak pernah menyentuhnya lagi. Setelah bekerja keras selama separuh hidupku dan melindunginya sepanjang hidup, ternyata aku hanyalah bagian dari permainan mereka.

I merely brought up the wedding decorations, and my fiancé's first love ran out of the room in tears. Ian Murray slapped me so hard I fell to the ground. His face twisted in fury, teeth clenched with hatred. "Daphne, are you that desperate to get married? Afraid no one else will want you, so you're clinging to me, forcing me into it? Our wedding next week is postponed!" I held my face, but not even a ripple stirred in my heart. This made the eighth time he'd postponed it. I had been waiting for him since I was twenty-eight. Now, in my early thirties, I was still getting nowhere closer to being married. So this time, I quietly packed my things and chose to leave. Maybe this marriage didn't need to happen after all.

Lamia and Kellen return to a realm different from what they left. Overrun with Senko’s creations and monsters from the underworld, they have one goal as they struggle to come to terms with their new identities. To rid the realm of Aodh and send him back to the hell hole he came from. They had faced Aodh once before in their past lives. This time round is different. They remember everything and hope they can defeat him this time. Not just for their future but the future of their realm. Love and bonds need to be healed while they prepare for a war that could cost them everything. Determined to ensure a peaceful future, Queen Lamia will stop at nothing to ensure the god of the underworld doesn’t get his hands on her or her immortal child.

I'd been married to my lawyer husband for eight years. In all that time, he never once acknowledged me as his wife in public. He wouldn't even let our daughter call him "Dad." Again and again, he missed out on her childhood because of his childhood sweetheart. Even when she hurt our daughter, he still forgave her. I was worn out and empty. So I decided to leave. I took our daughter and vanished from his world. But he refused the divorce. He started searching for us like a madman, turning the whole world upside down. Only this time, neither my daughter nor I will be looking back.