Novel & Cerita Kenek Bus

The carnivorous ways of the Aswang leave little room for love - much less a forbidden one between a queen and human girl. Little did Aswang Queen Catarina know, soon, her life would be changed by a plucky American biologist. A blue eyed, blonde adventurer, Rose Smith from California, who would make Catarina question all she knew, and want to make a human Her Aswang Woman King. ___ Catarina Rosales Marquez, 26, is the Aswang Queen of the Domminga Mountains, but she abhors eating humans. She has genetically engineered the fruits of her goddess Ikapati to produce human proteins in order to bring peace to Mindanao - but the Aswang do not trust this revolutionary, peaceful Queen - and are wary of the American biologist she has taken under her wing. Rose Smith is a German-American biologist doing her dissertation on the elusive, endangered Phillippines Eagle. Having studied the Tarsier in her undergraduate semester abroad in Manila, she fell in love with chicken adobo, pandesal - and Filipina women. Eager to be the first American biologist to do a longitudinal study of the Phillipines Eagle, she sets out into the Domminga Mountains on a bus with a one-way ticket - not afraid of the local's warnings of the rabid Iktapati Aswang Clan that eats humans, and roving bands of Tikbalang werehorses that stampede trespassers to death. When Catarina and Rose collide, it is oil and flame. Catarina, expected to marry a King, finds herself questioning the very cosmos of relationships - can she take a Queen, and a feisty American grad student at that? And can Rose come to terms with the elusive, seductive courts of the Vampiric Aswang? When the Iktapati clan rebels, the Tikbalang war, and the wind spirits coquette, Rose and Catarina must team up to save the humans of Mindanao - and the Phillipines eagle!

Pre-Apocalypse “I, Alpha Nathan, reject you. I won’t carry your burden anymore.” My mate cast me aside and chose my sister over me, leaving me behind to be devoured by zombies. Post-Apocalypse “Please, come back to me, my mate.” The same man who abandoned me was now begging at my feet because he knew one thing: With me on his side came victory. He had seen what I could do to the zombies. I looked at him with a smirk as the four powerful military alphas stepped closer at my side. “Why would I choose a burden like you,” I asked coldly, “when I have four alpha mates now?” .. Fallon spends years trying to be the perfect Luna, hoping her alpha mate’s family will finally accept her. They never do. Then the world collapses. Monsters roam the land, slaughtering werewolves as survivors race toward military shelters. But when escape finally comes, Fallon’s mate chooses her sister over her and throws Fallon out of the RV meant to save them. Broken and humiliated, Fallon realizes the world has no respect for weak women. So she stops being one. Fallon survives alone until she stumbles across a military uniform and uses it to board a passing army bus. The soldiers mistake her for one of their own. There is only one problem. The uniform belongs to the most hated female soldier in the military, especially in the eyes of the four dangerous alpha soldiers trapped on the bus with her. Now Fallon must survive the monsters, earn the trust of the alphas who despise her, and face the mate who rejected her. But as the journey grows deadlier, the four alphas realize Fallon is their mate. Suddenly, the war for survival becomes a battle to win Fallon’s heart.

The new intern in our department, Astrid Stokes, had a soft, harmless look people viewed as innocent. She also claimed she could see a countdown over people's heads, ticking down to their deaths. Most of us just laughed it off and told her she had been reading way too many web novels. When an elderly man was rushed into the ER, she told the department head, Melanie Brooks, not to bother. She said the man wouldn't make it through the day. Melanie ignored her and pushed ahead with everything we had. The old man still died. The attending doctor even got slashed by the patient's family during the fallout. After that, people started to waver. During a team outing, Astrid suddenly screamed and told us not to get on a specific bus. She said if we did, we would all die. With no other choice, we switched vehicles. By the time we reached our destination, news came in. The bus we were supposed to take had lost its brakes and gone off a bridge. After that, almost everyone believed her. Everyone except me. The next day, she pointed straight at me. "Ruth shouldn't be a doctor anymore. If she stays, she'll get caught up in a medical dispute, and the whole department will end up dead or injured." Just like that, Melanie reassigned me. I went from doctor to janitor, handling medical waste. One day, I got scratched by a contaminated needle. Yet, no one would treat me. "Astrid already said it. This is her destiny. Anyone who gets involved will die, too." My body rotted from infection, sores breaking open across my skin. I died alone on the street, full of fury. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day Astrid first claimed she could see those death countdowns.