Lip Biting While Kissing

11 September 2001, yang juga dikenal sebagai peristiwa 9/11, adalah titik balik peta perpolitikan dunia. Sejak hari tersebut, situasi geopolitik, terutama untuk umat muslim di dunia, tidak pernah lagi sama. Rais Hoetomo adalah seorang ilmuwan dan juga pengusaha berkebangsaan Indonesia-Amerika. Peristiwa 9/11 yang dialaminya secara langsung membuatnya berpikir ulang dan mencari jawaban atas semua pertanyaan yang menghantui dirinya. Pertanyaan - pertanyaan tentang tujuan ia dilahirkan, serta apa yang harus dilakukannya sebagai seorang Muslim.

They say fire is cleansing, a transformative type of destruction. After a forest fire, nature heals and grows stronger. It's forever changed but not destroyed. Fire is painful but beautiful, something that is warm but left unattended can be devastating. In the flames I was broken, destroyed, but in the ashes I was restored. Left floating in the grey, the smoke that led me through a divine transformation. Now I'm left adrift, the dark my only guide in the smoke, the blue of the sky, of his eyes, the only guide in the light. Forever torn and pulled between the two, unsure who I can trust and terrified to make the wrong choice. Not just my life hangs in the balance, but the lives and well being of all of humanity. It just might be too much for these wings to bare.

"You can't handle it. If you try too hard to understand me, what you'll unbosom, that is if you're able to uncover anything, will drive you mad. Because my mind is a dark labyrinth, never understood". “Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind”.——Dean Roontz. A dark, lonely, numb soul wanders the face of the Earth in search of peace. Running and hiding from her hunters and her captives. She's trying all she can to feel something, anything, at all as proof that she's living but all to no avail. She's neither human nor werewolf, Satyr nor mermaid, she doesn't seem to have a place to fit in. Her only mission and the goal that drives her very being is how to get rid of the curse she was born with. A curse that seems to spread its wings of death over any one she dares to care about. A curse that doesn't hesitate to suck the happiness out of all beings of close proximity to her. Will her strive to break this curse be fruitful or futile? Will she be able to protect others from getting consumed by this curse that plagues her very existence? Will she thrive over this seemingly unbreakable curse?

"Ms. Summers, are you sure you want to terminate this pregnancy?" Solana Summers has been lost in thought, but the repeated questioning suddenly snaps her back to reality. She stares wide-eyed, as if she can't believe what she is seeing. When the doctor, Aidan Bates, urges her again, she realizes she has been reborn. In her previous life, it was on this very day that she discovered she was pregnant and made a choice that cost her dearly. Aidan urges her once more. "Ms. Summers?" "Yes!" Solana answers firmly, her voice trembling ever so slightly. This time, she won't make the same mistake again.

Avery hired a gardener after his mother passed. He was left to maintain the huge garden that his mother has worked on for years after she passed. Little did he know, his gardener changes his life in ways he never expected.

The moon decides what you are… Crescent-born serve. Full-moon-born rule. Eclipse-born die. Ava was never meant to live. Born beneath an eclipse moon— the mark of the Werewarg, her kind are executed at birth for the damnation & chaos their power brings. Hidden all her life beneath the roof of those who despise her, Ava’s existence is a mistake waiting to be discovered and erased. But when fate sends her to Moonspire Academy, the brutal training ground of the Reigns, she humiliates the wrong opponent— the Alpha Prince himself. And by doing this, she commits an unpardonable offense as the Prince is furious, but instead of death, she’s given the unthinkable — she’s given an order by the King to train his son; the same Prince (whose kind hunt down her kind) Now, as forbidden sparks ignite between rivals, the Kingdom trembles beneath prophecy’s shadow. Because Ava’s secret is darker than anyone imagines...
 Yet when her truth is revealed, the Reigns will learn that the ‘supposed monster’ they feared might be the only one who can save them… While an arrogant Prince’s heart would soon be opened to a better truth… “Enemies by blood. Bound by fate. When the moon darkens and the air reeks of death, even monsters can become queens...”

Tumakas si Khaliyah Dadonza sa mansyon nila nang madinig niya sa papa niya na ipapakasal siya sa pangit na anak ng isang Mafia boss bilang bayad sa malaking utang niya rito. Kaya naman, agad-agad ay pumunta si Khaliyah sa probinsya, sa bahay ng kaibigang niyang si Moreya. Pero imbis na ang kaibigan niya ang madatnaan doon ay ang hot tito ni Moreya ang nakita niya. Ito na pala ang nakatira doon dahil nasa ibang bansa na ang kaibigan niya. Wala na siyang ibang mapupuntahan dahil nag-iisa lang si Moreya sa totoong kaibigan niya, kaya naman nakiusap siya sa Tito Larkin ni Moreya na doon muna siya magtatago at mag-stay, pero kapalit nito ay isang kasunduang magiging alipin siya sa bahay ni Tito Larkin Colmenares. Alipin ng isang hot tito na type na type niya ang katawan at mukha. Dahil sa sobra-sobrang pagmamakaawa ni Khaliyah, nagkaroon sila ng contract na ginawa ni Tito Larkin. Magiging mag-asawa sila habang doon nagtatago si Khaliyah. Pinakasalan siya ni Tito Larkin para hindi siya makasuhan ng kidnapping. Magiging mag-asawa lang sila dahil sa papel, pero sa loob ng bahay, alipin lang talaga siya ni Tito Arkin. Ayos lang kay Khaliyah ang maging alipin, lalo na’t isang Hot Tito ang paglilingkuran niya. Kaysa magbuhay princessa at magpakasal siya sa isang mayamang anak na mafia boss pero sobrang sama naman ng itsura ng mukha. Akala niya’y madali lang ang lahat ng ginagawa niya roon, magluto, maglinis, maglaba at sumunod sa mga utos nito Tito Larkin. Pero paano kung mas mahirap palang labanan ang tukso? Sa bawat araw na kasama niya si Tito Larkin ay lalo siyang nauuhaw sa isang bagay na hindi niya dapat pagnasaan. Magtatagal kaya si Khaliyah bilang alipin ni Tito Larkin, o tuluyan na siyang magpapasakop sa tukso?

"Menikahlah denganku, Lovina Serena Robinson." Lamaran selalu menjadi mimpi setiap wanita. Namun, bagi Lovy, itu justru menjadi mimpi buruk yang harus ia jalani dengan senyum palsu. Bagaimana tidak? Sean Wilver, pria itu adalah detektif ternama yang kini menjadi pemimpin penyelidikan besar-besaran untuk memburu seorang pembunuh berantai. Masalahnya? Lovy adalah orang yang selama ini Sean cari. Apakah pria itu akan menangkap Lovy? Atau malah cinta berhasil membutakan mata seorang penegak hukum?

This story is about a doctor, two patients, and maybe, just maybe,  Dragons. Jane Richards is a 30-year-old psychiatrist who has been married twice and dumped many times. She gave up on love and decided to focus on her carrier as a psychiatrist. While caring for the patients of the small town's mental health facility, she meets James and Philip O'Connor. James and Philip are brothers who suddenly had a mental meltdown trying to fly. They claim they are dragon princes. The problem with their claim is that they were born in that town. Spending a lot of time with Jane, their Psychiatrist, they begin a secret affair which would lead to a world of pleasures and wonders and might lead to a hidden world right under their noses. *Warning* Book is rated 18+ because it contains Language, Nudity, Violence and Sensual contents. If you are uncomfortable about certain things and are conservative then this might not be the pick for you. You can read Blood and Moon which is a milder book of mine. Otherwise enjoy my steamy imagination. Thank you for understanding.

FLIPPED (MM) Ray had been born a slave. His entire life had been acted out according to his master 's wishes but when he takes a bullet for the prince, Dominic Direken and risks his life to save him, Ray's life takes a sudden turn. He finds a mate in the most unexpected person ever, the infamous prince Dominic. Ray is certain this is a mistake and he isn't eager to follow up the mistake but as Dominic keeps Ray close for saving his life, they both slowly realize there's only an extent to trying to keep their hands off each other. Prince Dominic is equally determined to keep to himself but for how long can he fight this play of fate? Would he eventually accept this new turn, even when he find that Ray might be more than just a slave and instead his greatest enemy?