Measure What Matters

"Aku menginginkan Vicky tapi Vickal yang kudapat. What?! Apa salahku? Mungkinkah e'ek cicak yang menjatuhi kepalaku tadi malam telah mengubah takdir jodohku? Entahlah!" ==== Anggun Clarissa tidak menyangka jika pria yang ia taksir dan berencana untuk ia nikahi justru salah tepat pada hari H pernikahan. Entah karena minus matanya yang bertambah atau karena faktor usia yang semakin lanjut, tepat pada hari pernikahan itu Anggun harus gigit jari dan nangis guling-guling. Tidak hanya salah taksir, Anggun pun divonis salah suami. Hah?! ****

Alesha seorang wanita karier dengan segala kesuksesan yang diraihnya di usia yang masih sangat muda. Harus menerima keputusan dari keluarga besarnya yang membuat hidupnya berubah 180 derajat. Kesuksesan yang selama ini ia perjuangkan ternyata membawa sesuatu yang dapat menghancurkan kehidupan cintanya bersama Galih. Cinta pertamanya yang juga teman dekatnya selama masa-masa kuliah. Takdir mempertemukan keduanya di tempat yang tak terduga. Sean seorang playboy tampan yang sukses memikat hati semua wanita-wanita cantik, harus memilih antara kebebasannya atau keluarga yang tak pernah mendukung apapun keputusannya. Beban hidupnya sebagai anak kedua keluarga besar membuat ia semakin membenci keluarga yang telah membesarkannya selama ini. Keluarga yang ia benci membuat ia harus melepaskan orang yang sangat ia cintai selama bertahun-tahun. Sekembalinya ia dari Australia, ia menemui orang terkasihnya dan memutuskan untuk berjuang bersama. Empat tahun perpisahan mereka tak mengecilkan jarak diantara keduanya. Bian, wanita cantik dengan paras rupawan yang merupakan teman masa kecilnya telah merenggut hati Sean semenjak bertahun-tahun yang lalu berharap pertemuannya dengan Sean akan membuat penantiannya selama ini berakhir dengan kepulangan Sean ke Indonesia. Namun, permainan takdir sangatlah kejam untuk mereka berempat. Perjuangan, pertemuan, perpisahan, kebohongan semua hanyalah permainan sang takdir. Takdir mempermainkan perasaan mereka berempat layaknya mereka hanyalah sebuah boneka yang tak layak mendapatkan kebahagiaan dari sisi manapun. Akankah mereka dapat menghancurkan ikatan takdir yang menjadi jurang pemisah antara mereka? Atau mereka hanya akan mengikuti apa yang telah dituliskan takdir untuk mereka layaknya sebuah boneka? We know what we did. We learn to live and love.

Andrea was given a task to protect Alpha Jax, he was committed, ruthless, dangerous but his power was at its peak to summon the Moon Goddess for help to keep him in power and fight his enemies with him. Andrea's duty was to protect the Alpha who already have a mate but not yet married - for one year before coming back. Will there be any spark in that year? What could possible happen to Andrea these years?

"Tuan, please bantu aku. pria tua bau tanah itu terus menggangguku!" Ucap seorang wanita sexy yang tiba-tiba duduk dipangkuan seorang lelaki bermata biru dan dominan itu. "Hei dude, dia milikku." suara berat dan dominan itu menginterupsi lelaki tua yang terlihat kesal namun tak berani membantah ucapan lawan yang sangat kuat, sebab dia tahu laki-laki yang sedang memeluk pinggang wanita incarannya adalah penguasa Amerika setelah presiden. -------------------------------------- "Jadi, apa imbalan yang aku dapatkan setelah membantu kucing kecil ini?" "Ooh, aku akan mentraktirmu vodka?" "Bagaimana kalau satu ciuman di lehermu yang menggoda itu, hmm?" "What?!!!"

"Hello Bestie.. Kumusta?" sagot ni Roldan sa kabilang linya. "Bestie, help!!!! Hindi ko na kaya" habol ang hininga na sagot ni Carissa. "Bestie, what happened.... Saan ka ngayon pupuntahan kita" natataranta na sagot ni Roldan. Humihikbi na sumagot si Carissa " Dito sa park Bestie.. Please puntuhan mo ako.. Hindi ko na kaya... Nakipaghiwalay na siya sa akin...... Ang sakit...... Sakit.." sumisigok na sagot ni Carissa. Halatang pinipilit na lang nitong magsalita. "Saang Park Bestie??? Please hold on.. Wag mong masyadong isipin ang problema.. Pupuntahan kita diyan promise.. Send mo sa akin ang location mo ok????... Tarantang sagot ni Roldan. Hindi sumagot si Carissa.. Patuloy lang ito sa pagluha. " Hello Bestie naririnig mo ba ako?? Send mo sa akin ang location mo Para napuntahan kita." halos nagmamakaawa na wika ni Roldan. Alam niya kasi na wala sa huwesyo ang kanyang kaibigan baka mapahamak ito. "Bestie please magsalita ka naman. Sige na send mo na sa akin kung saan ka. Paalis na ako.... Nandito na ako sa kotse." wika ulit ni Roldan. Nag-umpisa na din ito magdrive. Maya-maya pa ay nareceived na din niya ang location kong saan naroon si Carissa. Agad niya itong pinuntahan at natagpuan sa isang upuan. Nakayuko ito at halatang hirap sa paghinga. Nang mahawakan ni Roldan ay agad niyang itinaas ang mukha ni Carissa. Nagulat siya sa hitsura nito. Maputla ito at nakapikit na. Bakas sa mukha nito ang mga luha at paghihirap. Agad na niyakap ni Roldan ang kanyang kaibigan. Maya-maya pa ay naramdaman niya itong lumungay-ngay sa kanyang balikat. Bumagsak din ang mga kamay nito. Nataranta si Roldan ng marealized niya na nawalan ng malay si Carissa . Agad niya itong binuhat at isinakay sa kotse. Pinaharurot agad niya papuntang hospital.

Olivia Fordham was married to Ethan Miller for three years, but that time could not compare with the ten years he spent loving his first love, Marina Carlton. On the day that she gets diagnosed with stomach cancer, Ethan happens to be accompanying Marina to her children's health check-up. She doesn't make any kind of fuss, only leaving quietly with the divorce agreement. However, this attracts an even more fervent retribution. It seems Ethan only ever married Olivia to take revenge for what happened to his little sister. While Olivia is plagued by her sickness, he holds her chin and says coldly, "This is what your family owes me." Now, she has no family and no future. Her father becomes comatose after a car accident, leaving her with nothing to live for. Thus, she hurls herself from a building. "The life my family owes will now be repaid." At this, Ethan, who's usually calm, panics while begging for Olivia to come back as if he's in a state of frenzy …

Ava: Nine years ago I did something terrible. it wasn't one of my best moments but I saw an opportunity to have the guy I've loved since I was a young girl and I took it. Fast forward to years later and I'm tired of living in a loveless marriage. I want to free both of us from a marriage that should never have taken place. They say if you love something.... It was time to let him go. I know he'll never love me and that I'll never be his choice. His heart will always belong to Her and despite my sins, I deserve to be loved.Rowan: Nine years ago, I was so in love I could barely see right. I ruined it when I made the worst mistake of my life and in the process I lost the love of my life. I knew I had to step up in my responsibility and so I did, with an unwanted wife. With the wrong woman. Now she has once again flipped my life by divorcing me. To make matters even more complicated, the love of my life is back in town. Now the only question is, who is the right woman? Is it the girl I fell head over heels in love with years ago? or is it my ex wife, the woman I never wanted but had to marry?

John Handful’s first client is a member of the local Polish community wanted by the police for the disappearance of his pregnant wife. A new miracle cancer drug is stolen from a pharmaceutical complex located on a shingle spit, just off the Suffolk coast. A wealthy local financier is blackmailed, and a ripple of malice spreads across the village of Oxmarket. Each household of a cul-de-sac have a secret that could point to them being the murderer of a man found shot dead in his bedroom.A perplexing case unfolds with the revelation of secret lovers, flowers from the garden and a death that is not as it appears.John Handful finds himself enmeshed in a violent, multi-layered plot at a luxury hotel on a remote island. A man kills himself despite receiving the good news that his lover’s husband has agreed to a divorce.A woman is witnessed shooting herself by her husband even though she had already been dead several hours.A man has been found shot through the head in a locked room with suicide well and truly ruled out. How did he die?Severed limbs in a concrete block, leads, John Handful to believe that a cold calculated killer with a thirst for revenge is on the loose. Ten cases, one connection. What is it?

Accidentally killing her parents is what turned Neah’s life upside down. As punishment for her crimes, her wolf abilities are bound, and she is forced into a life of slavery by her brother. At the age of twenty-two, she saw no way of getting out and had given up on life, just trying to make it through each day. A contract between packs brings the arrival of the powerful, crimson-eyed Alpha Dane. A wolf that men feared, yet Neah couldn’t help but be fascinated by him. Adding Neah to the contract was never Alpha Dane's plan. Something about her strange scent lured him in, and he knew he couldn’t leave her behind, especially not when he heard the lies coming from her brother's mouth. But meeting Neah was just the beginning. If she isn’t challenging Alpha Dane, then it was her old pack that was trying to make life extremely difficult for him by keeping secrets buried. Please note, this book ends on a cliffhang

Aurora St. Claire expected the worst when she was forced to move across country in the middle of her junior year. Desperate to leave her shattered home the moment she turns eighteen, her plans are disrupted by the god-like Maddox twins. Aurora doesn't understand the deep attraction she holds for the twin's, and ignores them at every turn. Thrown into a world she knows nothing about, Aurora's demons come back to haunt her, making her question who or what she truly is. Will Aurora run from the secrets of the past? Or will she accept her role and take control of her destiny.