Main Street

Saat suamiku memaksa diriku yang sedang hamil delapan bulan untuk menemani sahabat masa kecilnya main loncat bungee, aku tidak membantah ataupun marah. Sebaliknya, aku malah mengangguk setuju. Aku melakukan ini karena di kehidupan sebelumnya, sahabatnya itu sedang sedih. Demi menghiburnya, suamiku berjanji akan mengabulkan satu permintaannya. Sahabatnya pun bilang pada suamiku kalau keinginan terbesarnya adalah ada orang yang menemaninya main loncat bungee. Suamiku yang takut ketinggian langsung menyuruhku untuk menemaninya, aku pun menolak mentah-mentah dengan alasan sedang hamil. Karena penolakanku, sahabatnya itu sedih dan akhirnya memilih pergi ke bar untuk minum-minum. Sialnya, dia malah dijebak di sana, diracuni dan dilecehkan hingga kehilangan kesuciannya. Setelah kejadian itu, dia yang merasa hancur meninggalkan sebuah surat wasiat sebelum mengakhiri hidupnya, [Kalau saja aku nggak pergi ke bar hari itu, mungkinkah semuanya akan berbeda?] Membaca surat itu, suamiku mencekik leherku. “Kenapa kamu nggak mengikuti ajakan Sisil untuk loncat bungee? Apa susahnya tinggal mengikuti dia saja?” Akhirnya, aku mati dicekik oleh suamiku sendiri dan anak di kandunganku yang belum sempat lahir pun ikut pergi bersamaku. Begitu membuka mata kembali, ternyata aku kembali ke hari di mana suamiku memintaku menemani sahabatnya itu main loncat bungee….

Aku mempercayai suamiku walaupun dia berubah lima bulan belakangan ini. Namun, sebuah pesan yang berisi video penuh suara desah, menyadarkanku. Ini bukan hanya perubahan biasa. Suamiku ada main dengan perempuan yang disimpan dalam kontak sekretaris di ponselnya! 

I get picked up by the cops in the middle of the night for street vending. While questioning me, they pull up my file. One officer eyes me suspiciously through my mask and asks, "What's a Clairefield University graduate like you doing selling stuff on the street at midnight?" I freeze and lean over to look at the file. The ID number matches mine, but the photo has been replaced with one of Madison Bass. That's when it hits me—20 years ago, I was the one who got accepted to Clairefield University! Dazed and numb, I stumble home only to hear my husband, Joseph Gunther, speaking on the phone. "Madison, don't worry. I won't let Lucy interfere with your life. Just go abroad in peace." It's him! Joseph helped Madison steal my identity and my future. My stomach twists. I turn to confront him, to expose the truth. But before I can, he strangles me to death with a belt. "I'm sorry, Lucy. You can't ruin Madison's future…" When I open my eyes again, I'm back in the classroom. Our homeroom teacher is handing out university application forms. This time, I'm taking my life back.

Selama tujuh bulan lebih iparku dan keluarganya menjadi benalu di rumahku, dan mereka selalu menjadikan aku pembantu di rumahku sendiri. Suamiku tak tega jika harus mengusir mereka, jadi kini aku akan main cantik hingga mereka tak betah lagi berada di rumahku.

In my previous life, my sister thought that since my husband and I had high-paying jobs, she could swap her son with my child without anyone noticing. But twenty-five years later, the tables turned. My son had grown into a street thug, while her son—raised under my care—rose smoothly through life. Young as he was, he had already become a CEO. He was dutiful, bought me a villa, and even sent me traveling around the world. My sister barged into his company, waving a DNA test report, kicking up a scene, only to be thrown out by security. "Mr. Kieran said that even if you are his biological mother, you never gave him a single day of care," they told her. "So he refuses to acknowledge you." Breaking down completely, she drove her car into me and ended my life. When I opened my eyes again, we had returned to the very day she switched our babies. This time, my sister clutched her own child tightly, a wild, triumphant grin on her face. "From now on, you can be the mother of a street thug," she sneered. "The villa and all those riches—they're mine!"

Marina Hunter is your average teenage girl– detached from the world, absorbed in books and music until she meets the choleric boy across the street, cocky and talented, Darnell McCoy and feels things she's only ever felt once for her best friend, Playboy Jason Kuyper. As Marina tries to navigate junior year at Silver Lake High alongside family drama, an ensuing love triangle, her phobias... A happy ending is pretty uncertain.

Once I dared to think that I had the right to redemption, but my killer found me, and my future is again in jeopardy. He said that he would do everything to save me and our son, but I know that in a world ruled by wolf laws, promises are worthless, and only the number of trump cards matters, the main one is in my hands.

Pendant la journée familiale à la maternelle, mon mari, Guillaume Simon a refusé d’y aller sous prétexte d’une urgence au travail et a demandé à ma fille et à moi de ne pas y aller. Ma fille, Lilas, était très déçue, ça m’a fait de la peine et j’ai décidé d’y participer avec ma fille. Dès que nous sommes arrivées, j’ai vu que mon mari tenait un petit garçon dans ses bras et tenait la main de sa meilleure amie d'enfance, Sabrina Martin. Tous les trois, parlant et riant, étaient heureux, comme une famille. Quand Guillaume nous a vues, ma fille et moi, il a légèrement froncé les sourcils avant de lâcher la main de Sabrina. « Lola, ne te méprends pas, Sabrina élève seule son enfant, ce n’est pas facile pour elle. Aujourd’hui, c’est l’anniversaire de cinq ans de son enfant, elle voulait juste que son fils ressente l'amour d'un père. » Je lui ai jeté un coup d'œil avec un sourire énigmatique, puis je me suis accroupie et j'ai pris la main de ma fille : « Chérie, dis bonjour à l’oncle. »

Two lives. One obsession.By day, she's a street thief with killer curves and a hidden hunger. By night, she sells her body to the highest bidder.By day, he's a billionaire CEO closing deals. By night, he's the masked mafia king who rules the shadows.She stole his black card. He stole her freedom.But years ago, behind masks in a dark room, their bodies already knew each other scent, scar, birthmark. Now the chase is on. And when the masks fall... neither will escape.

Book two of The Tainted With Blood Series. It’s been ten years since Kiara and Alessio have gotten married. Tatiana and Kyle have disappeared through them, but now, trouble has emerged once again with their new weapons, their brainwashed soldiers. Tatiana and Kyle had taught them one target, and it was to kill, and their main target was this… End the Aslanov Family.