Love Is Destiny

"Why do you care so much for someone who is toxic for you?" "Her heart isn't toxic, her world is. I crave her."

This book gathers different love stories, yes, love stories. All these stories that I collected over time, that were told to me by friends, acquaintances, relatives and others from my own imagination ink. And perhaps, there is some coincidence.

Kita tidak pernah tahu kemana takdir akan membawa kita. Yang pasti, takdir akan mendekatkan kita dengan jodoh kita. Andini Khumaira, seorang gadis yang bercita-cita ingin menjadi Tahfiz Qur'an. Namun, tekadnya mulai diuji ketika cinta terhadap lawan jenis mulai bersemi di hatinya. Memilih dan memilah kumbang yang datang dan pergi. Akankan Dini mempertahankan cita-citanya? Atau malah terbuai dengan manisnya cinta?

Waking up to a sudden change in your life, how do you think you'd cope? Same goes for Jasmine Kane whose life changed overnight because of a simple Marble. Problem arises when the owner of the Marble comes to find her and she falls in love with him and puts herself in more danger. Now she has to choose between saving her own life and Dying to save the one she loves....is their love really the one to die for? Will it be a Tragic Ending or A Happy Ending?

Maximus was a playboy quite the opposite of his younger brother, Nathaniel, who was a complete gentleman. He never approved of his older brother's lifestyle but though they may have their differences, they were still brothers no matter what. Until one day, Nathaniel's best friend and one of his older brother's many lovers caught Maximus sleeping with another woman. She was enraged with the fact that she was being cheated by her lover and betrayed by her best friend for not telling her. What was worse, they didn't know she was a witch. Fueled by anger, she cast a curse on them. A curse of immortality. As proof, she gave them a mark of a small bloody rose surrounded with vines on their chest. The only way to break the curse was to find true love. But, it was not that simple.

Pierre Paul Abutu gives a humorous, fascinating and dispassionate narration of the unique intimate and romantic events of his life from teenage to adolescence, and into the early stages of his adult life. This narration revolves around the lives, and relationships of sixteen ladies with whom he shared happy, intimate, eventful and evergreen moments of his life with. These love affairs occur in Pierre Abutu’s life, at his university, the Augustine Nnamani Campus, Agbani, in Enugu Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Akwa Ibom State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Due to his religious beliefs, personal convictions, personal principles, metaphysical and supernatural predictions and postulations, the media, intellectual and literary effects in his life, most of these affairs either ended abruptly or amicably. These love affairs also reveal the negative attitudes, traits and deceptive machinations of these girls and ladies. Even though certain unpleasant and resultant effects were never intended at any particular stage, or with any of these girls and ladies, one thing was very clear: each love affair was and would always be evergreen to Pierre Abutu.

Grace was living her normal life with a decent job in New York City until she met Aldrik Kingsley the CEO of the Kingsley architecture and design. Aldrik was orphan who has worked hard to reach on the top of the world. Their journey starts when Aldrik's past decided to came back to him and Grace accidentally become a part of it. They don't have any other choice but to face it together. Is it was a accident or their fate decided to bring them together. Join Aldrik Kingsley and Grace Alder to see what fate has planned for them.

Marina is a girl with a great passion for medicine, she has two childhood friends, Lina and Hasan. The three people's friendship relationship was very good when suddenly there was a problem. Because his friend Hasan did not reciprocate Lina's feelings, instead falling in love with Marina. After Lina learned of Hasan's feelings for Marina, their relationship changed from friend to foe. Because she was too stubborn to have Hasan's affection, Lina tried every way to cut off their feelings. By chance Lina knew the secret of fate from her previous life, she decided to cut off the relationship between Marina and Hasan from her previous life, so that in this life the two of them could not be together. Lina then secretly used her parents' invention to return to the past, but because it was a test version, the machine malfunctioned and exploded, causing Lina's parents to die, thereby increasing Lina's hatred towards Marina. up. But despite exploding, the space vortex still brought Lina's spirit to the past and entered the body in her previous life. The first thing after Lina woke up was to kill Marina in the past, but because of that, it accidentally caused Marina to also get sick. pulled back to his previous life as the ancient Canal period. From there, Marina's journey to find out why she was dragged back to this era and how to return begins. With her medical knowledge Marina quickly became famous and gained more companions. During the journey Marina also met Prince Alex who is Hasan's previous life, their relationship quickly improved but also made Lina know that Marina was still alive. Since then Marina has to face malicious plots from Lina

Menjadi seseorang yang berbeda dari yang lain adalah hal yang sangat tidak mengenakkan. Disaat semua orang bisa melihat dengan normal, disisi lain kau justru melebihi apa yang mereka sebut normal. Melihat sesuatu yang tidak bisa dilihat kebanyakan orang adalah sesuatu yang sulit ku terima saat ini.

Mirela merasa bahagia karena beberapa jam lagi dia akan meresmikan pertunangan dengan kekasih sekaligus bosnya, Rengga. Namun, tiba-tiba datang ancaman dari Dean, pria yang 4 tahun lebih tua dari Rengga dan merupakan pengusaha terkenal multi nasional. Dean yang naksir Mirela sejak lama merasa kecewa karena gadis yang ditaksirnya selama ini ternyata lebih memilih untuk bertunangan dengan Rengga daripada dirinya. Pikiran jahat melintas di benak Dean untuk memisahkan Mirela dengan Rengga melalui adik perempuannya Dina yang juga dia ketahui sangat mencintai Rengga sejak mereka sama-sama masih kuliah. Rengga yang pusing tujuh keliling, memikirkan ancaman Dean yang akan menggulingkan perusahaannya kalau Rengga menolak membatalkan pertunangan dan menikah dengan Dina, di hari pertunangannya hati dan pikirannya dipaksa memilih perkara sulit itu. Jika Rengga teramat mencintai Mirela, kekasihnya. Maka, dia pun sangat mencintai seluruh karyawannya agar perusahaannya tidak jatuh bangkrut oleh ancaman Dean yang tidak main-main. Akhirnya Rengga memutuskan untuk tidak menghadiri acara pertunangannya karena tidak sanggup untuk berhadapan langsung dengan Mirela. Lantas apa yang dilakukan oleh Mirela setelah mengetahui kekasihnya, Rengga tidak akan pernah datang ke acara pesta pertunangan mereka sedangkan tamu undangan dari mulai tetangga hingga teman satu kantornya telah memenuhi rumahnya? Bagaimana gadis itu melalui hari-harinya selanjutnya?