Mad Potato

Suamiku meninggal setelah satu bulan poligami. Kehilangan suami memang menyakitkan, tapi bagaimana jika ia meninggal setelah menikah lagi? Padahal saat itu aku sedang terkapar koma di rumah sakit usai melahirkan anaknya. Sakit? Tidak.

"You should be running away from me," he whispered against my neck, his deep voice wrapping around me like a black velvet. He was right. I should run— far, fast, and without looking back. But I couldn't. Or maybe didn't want to. Fisting his shirt tightly, I rasped out, "I hate you." A shiver ran down my spine as his lips curled into a devilish smirk, "No, you don't." He leaned in, our mouths a breath apart. "You just hate how badly you want me, Little Muse," he drawled, voice like a tempting sin. ----------- Everyone thought she was paranoid but Iliana Carlos knew the eyes following her everywhere were real. Draped in black, masked and silent, her stalker has trapped her in a deadly game of obsession. But for her, he is nothing more than the gruesome darkness but the deeper she's pulled into his shadows, the more she craved them. Maddox Velric Thorne spent fifteen years focused on one mission: find the daughter of his father’s murderer, kill her, and claim his rightful place as Alpha. But those hazel eyes and auburn hair has suddenly become his biggest distraction. What started as a casual infatuation has now turned into his darkest obsession. What will happen when fate will bind them in a twisted dance of fear and desire? How far would Maddox chase Iliana and for how long is she willing to run away?

My name is Themis and I am not supposed to be alive. I survived the hunt, saddled with a husband and still I have to waddle my way through so many things to remain alive at the end of the day. The one person I can count on other than myself is my new husband who saved my life from the get go. And my gift of prophecy. Maybe, just maybe, it is also enough to save the Dar Empire too. My name is Themis and this is my story.

Kinan mengira pernikahan adalah tentang membangun rumah baru. Namun, setelah lima tahun bersama Aris, ia sadar dirinya hanyalah "penduduk kontrak" yang sewaktu-waktu bisa diabaikan. Aris adalah suami yang nyaris sempurna di mata orang lain—mapan, sopan, dan sangat berbakti pada ibunya. Namun di balik pintu kamar, bakti itu menjadi racun yang perlahan membunuh jiwa Kinan. ​Setiap tetes keringat Kinan untuk mengurus rumah dianggap kewajiban yang tak perlu diapresiasi, sementara setiap rengekan ibunya adalah titah raja yang tak boleh dibantah. Puncaknya adalah ketika Kinan menyadari bahwa di balik kemesraan fisik yang mereka lakukan tiap malam, Aris menyimpan rahasia besar: sebuah masa depan yang dirancang tanpa melibatkan namanya sedikit pun. Kinan bukan pendamping hidup, ia hanya fasilitas untuk mempermudah hidup Aris dan ibunya. ​Dihadapkan pada pilihan antara bertahan dalam kehampaan atau hancur untuk merdeka, Kinan mulai meracik "pembalasannya" sendiri—bukan dengan amarah yang meledak, tapi dengan kepergian yang paling sunyi.

Asmani Wulandari, 25 tahun, seorang wanita yang mendambakan sebuah kehidupan rumah tangga yang indah bak negeri dongeng. Dia dinikahi oleh Reza Mulyadi setelah tiga bulan mereka berpacaran. Awal pernikahan yang indah. Reza selalu memperlakukan Wulan dengan baik, melakukan hal-hal romantis dan menuruti semua keinginan Wulan layaknya pasangan pengantin baru. Wulan merasa impian pernikahannya telah terwujud. Seiring waktu, kehidupan rumah tangganya jauh dari kata indah saat Reza sudah menampakkan wajah aslinya yang posesif dan arogan, bahkan Reza tak segan mengangkat tangan dan menyiksa istrinya. Wulan tersiksa batin dan juga fisiknya, terlebih saat ia harus keguguran dan kehilangan calon bayinya akibat siksaan dari Reza. Apa keputusan yang akan diambil Wulan kedepannya? Akankah Wulan bisa menikmati manisnya madu dalam pernikahan atau justru meneguk racun yang kian menyakitkan?

Rosie menikah dengan Richard demi penyatuan dua bisnis besar keluarga, seiring berjalannya waktu tumbuh rasa cinta di hati Rosie, tapi tidak di hati Richard. Setelah tiga tahun masa perkawinan, barulah Richard mulai membuka hati pada istrinya. Namun di tahun ke empat, mantan kekasihnya hadir kembali dan menggoyahkan bahtera rumah tangga yang diperjuangkan Rosie. Richard yang memang tak pernah bisa melupakan Sasha, kembali jatuh ke pelukannya. Richard rela melakukan apa saja untuk bersatu dengan Sasha, termasuk bercerai dengan istrinya. Tetapi Rosie gigih mempertahankan perkawinan dan memilih mati bila diceraikan. Richard pun menyewa Michael, seorang pemuda lugu yang baru berkecimpung dalam dunia prostitusi untuk merayu dan mendapatkan hati istrinya agar ia memiliki alasan untuk bercerai. Mampukah Rosie meraih kembali cinta Richard atau akankah ia kehilangan pria yang sangat dicintainya itu dan jatuh ke pelukan Michael yang disewa untuk mengambil hatinya?

My husband's first love, Annie Quinn, suffers from a nosebleed. He decides to stuff me into the fridge and make me write a letter of apology in order to punish me. "Tie up the entire fridge with a coil of rope and leave it in the wine cellar. Let her atone for her sins there quietly." I keep pounding against the fridge door with all my might, even as it makes me bleed all over the place. I hope Nathan Grayson, my husband, can let me out. Instead, Nathan takes Annie on a trip to Arci where they have fun skiing and watching the penguins waddle about. One week later, Nathan opens the fridge after returning from his trip. The moment he lays eyes on my rotten corpse, he loses his mind on the spot.

—Hay algo duro aquí abajo que me está picando. En el auto de la escuela de manejo, para enseñarle a manejar a mi ahijada, hice que se sentara en mis piernas para guiarla personalmente. Pero apenas encendimos el motor, el auto se nos apagó y la carrocería dio un brinco muy fuerte. Esos amortiguadores de mi ahijada se hundieron profundamente en mi entrepierna. Lo que terminó por acelerarme el pulso fue notar que Camila solo llevaba puesta una minifalda cortísima que no le cubría nada.

Maddie is an ordinary girl who is almost eighteen years old. She does have a grandmother who is a high priesters in Wicca, but is that so unusual? At breakneck speed Maddie finds herself in the world of Magic, were she also has a difficult task . Can her budding love for Raven handle this? Can she survive in that strange Magical world that co-exists with ours ?

There are two dogs who will forever revolve around Leonardo Zeller. The first one is his pet dog. The second one is me, his devoted lapdog. But I've successfully risen to the ranks as his fiancee. On the day before our wedding, Leonardo gets into an accident from car racing for the sake of his first love, Renee White. I rush over to the hospital immediately, but I don't see the scar that's supposed to adorn his chest. My complexion goes insanely pale out of panic. "Where did the scar from his heart surgery go?" "Hey! Don't you dare jinx my son! Since when did he go through such a cursed surgery?" Suddenly, I realize that I've gotten the wrong person this whole time for three years. On the day Leonardo gets discharged, he tells me that he regrets proposing to me and that he wants to call off the wedding just to be with Renee. Everyone wants to see me break down and humiliate myself by showing my hysterical side. But I merely reply, "Okay." What they don't know is that I've never loved Leonardo before. After all, the man I love is already dead a few years ago.