Novel Küche

Iris lavender itu menatap penuh kecewa. Hati yang sakit seolah diiris belati. Air mata berjatuhan sebagai upaya terakhir penolakan. Meski begitu, pemandangan di depan mata tak berubah sedikitpun. “Kenapa?” kata terakhir sebelum kelopak mata tertutup. Pengkhianatan. Tindakan tercela yang membuat orang-orang jatuh ke lembah penuh dendam. Sebagai orang yang pernah mengalaminya, Kalista tak meragukan kebencian yang diakibatkan oleh sebuah pengkhianatan. Kematian yang datang menjadi akhir. Pertanda dendam di hati tak dapat di balaskan. Namun tidak disangka, kesempatan kedua datang begitu saja. Membuat gejolak di dada terasa gelisah. “Pengkhianat?” “Mari kita lihat, siapa yang kali ini akan menang."

Kaluna punya ribuan kenangan manis bersama Jonathan, pacar semasa SMAnya. Kenangan itu disimpannya dengan rapi selama bertahun-tahun. Ada keinginan untuk kembali menjalin kasih dengan pria yang ia tinggalkan akibat perceraian orangtuanya. Ya, mungkin ini adalah kisah cinta yang belum terselesaikan. Sayangnya, hidup selalu penuh kejutan. Pekerjaan membawanya bertemu dengan Jonathan. Baru saja harapannya membumbung tinggi, Jonathan sudah membumihanguskannya dengan satu kalimat. "Maaf, apa kita pernah kenal?" Demi Tuhan! Apa yang ada di kepala pria itu? Apa dia benar-benar sudah melupakan Kaluna? Apa yang sebenarnya terjadi?! Tidak mungkin Jonathan amnesia! Ini bukan sinetron! Kaluna tidak punya pilihan. Dia harus menguak alasan Jonathan pura-pura tidak mengenalinya sebelum percikan gairah yang sudah lama ia kubur di hati Kaluna membesar dan membakar dirinya juga ... Jonathan

Ella is her name. She's just an ordinary girl. Oh, wait, is she really as ordinary as we presumed about her? Allora, you can't guess it right. For she herself didn't know about her true identity. Living in a ramshackle hut with an old man with whom she had no blood relation. There's nothing extraordinary about her lifestyle or even her. She wakes up, prepares breakfast for both of them, and then the old man leaves of food hunting. They're living an extremely poor life which is a common status in her surroundings. And one day she had a mysterious dream, the one she had never thought of. Not even in her dreams! Her 18th birthday was coming right after two days and she's having his dream as a present. Well, a present worth it all. Forest, wolves, handcuffed maiden, and the demand. A two-word demand, asking for the keys. What keys those strange, voiced creatures were asking for? Whose keys? She didn't know but soon she will know.

What's the first thing you'd do if you were reborn? Me? I'd start by divorcing my husband, Finn Gallagher. Yeah, Finn Gallagher, the same man who runs half the underworld from behind closed doors. The Don. The richest man alive. The man women dream about; his face plastered on magazines, named "Sexiest Man Alive" five years in a row. In my last life, I tried everything to make him look at me like I mattered. I married him. I gave birth to his son. I swallowed every ounce of pride, trying to be the perfect wife. However, it didn't work. To him, I was no different than a waitress he might casually tip—forgettable, replaceable, invisible. So this time, I'm not begging. I'm not pretending. I'm handing Madeline Brooks the key to my place in his life, and walking away. She's Finn's first love, and also the shadow that haunted every day of my last life. Now Madeline was sitting opposite to me, blinked at me like she didn't hear me right. "You tried so hard to push me out," she said slowly, eyes narrowed. "Now you want me to be with Finn?" "Yes. That's all I'm asking. Just talk to Finn. Tell him to sign the divorce papers." I looked at her confused face and kept going. "Everyone knows I'm the last person who'd ever let Finn go. So if I say I want a divorce, he won't believe me for a second. But you? You're the one who can make that happen... aren't you?" She laughed, because she was finally getting her chance. I laughed too, because I was finally free.

To everyone else, I'm the wife of Stefano Pace, the man who runs this city's underworld. To others, I am living the kind of luxury every woman in town envies. But what no one knows is that in three days, I'm leaving my husband for good. It started when I took Stefano's car to wash and spotted a black stocking that wasn't mine wedged in the passenger seat cushions. It was balled up and still reeked of sickly sweet perfume. The sight of it was like a knife to the heart. I knew that perfume. It is Isla Torelli's. She's Stefano's underboss, the only woman besides me who's ever taken the passenger seat. My hand trembled as I gripped the stocking, but I kept my cool. I thought back to our wedding seven years ago, when Stefano stood in front of the whole family and vowed, "If I ever betray you, then betray me a hundredfold!" He probably did not think those words would come true.

Un mariage sous contrat, un homme avec un caractère volcanique pour qui,rien n'est plus important que l'argent,pour lui,il faut en avoir jusqu'à ne savoir plus quoi en faire. - Je t'interdis de m'appeler par ce prénom Assia... - c'est ton prénom Aziz. - pour la deuxième fois je te l'interdis de le faire,pour toi et le reste du monde c'est Cheikh ou monsieur Cheikh. - pff s'il te plaît. - Assia pourtant les règles du contrat étaient bien claires, nous avons établi des règles mais tu respectes rien du tout... - les règles sont faites pour qu'on les enfreignent monsieur Cheikh. Je risque ma vie en me mariant avec cet homme,et pourquoi ? Parceque toute sa vie n'est rien d'autre que des secrets, un mystère.

Sylvie Bouchra, à l'insu de Louis Vincent, a envoyé la jeune fille qu'il gardait chez lui dans un top conservatoire à l'étranger. Louis, que tout le monde décrivait comme un homme froid et détaché, est instantanément devenu fou. Il a envoyé Francis, son fils avec Sylvie, sur un bateau de croisière à destination de l'Arctique. Il a forcé Sylvie à lui livrer Flora Richard. Sylvie regardait son fils de cinq ans pleurer pitoyablement sur le bateau, qui naviguait progressivement vers les eaux internationales. L'assistant de Louis tenait l'enfant suspendu au-dessus de l'eau, tout le petit corps de l'enfant exposé au vide. La voix sinistre et étouffée de Louis a résonné : « Sylvie, il ne te reste que cinq minutes pour réfléchir. Si tu refuses toujours, ton fils tombera dans la mer ! »

La vie de Sienna était parfaite. Son mari, avec son aide, venait de lancer son entreprise et sa famille était au complet avec la présence de leur fille, jusqu'à ce qu'un soir, tout s'écroule. Non seulement Sienna a découvert que l'enfant qu'elle avait élevé pendant cinq ans n'était pas le sien mais celui de sa sœur, mais aussi que son mari l'avait utilisée pendant tout ce temps. Blessée et trahie, Sienna a eu un accident qu'elle pensait avoir été orchestré par son mari, mais elle est revenue à la vie plusieurs années avant d'avoir eu un enfant et, cette fois, elle allait remettre les choses en ordre. Le passé ne se répéterait pas, car elle avait une longueur d'avance, du moins le croyait-elle. Que se passera-t-il lorsque Sienna devra se tourner vers l'ennemi pour obtenir de l'aide, l'homme qui était présent la nuit où elle a été tuée dans le passé ? Quel lien a-t-il avec elle et pourquoi semble-t-il obsédé par l'idée de la revendiquer ?

(Completed) Elysia had everything going for her, a perfect life, a perfect partner, her dream career until the devastating death of her brother. Her life suddenly came to a halt, when she found herself giving up everything to restore her family's name. A marriage to a drug addict Damon Contreras was like poison to her soul. She found herself drifting between fantasy and reality until an affair that placed her in the middle of a generation feud. And to survive she must pair with the devil-her husband.

Annalise's loveless marriage where her hard work and sufferings were never appreciated crumbled when she faced a series of tragedies: her son's death, murder charges, and a cold divorce paper thrown at her the very day she lost her son. Annalise was cast aside and denied even the solace of attending her son's funeral, thrown out of the family she had hoped would accept her one day. Her journey towards transformation began when she found an unexpected strength within herself during the trial of despair and soon she was known across the world… The once-upon-a-time useless daughter-in-law is now the heir of the trillion-dollar medical Empire! The unwanted becoming wanted by many, even by her ex-husband and family. A determined Annalise emerged from the wreckage of her broken life and ventured into her family's traditional medicine business. She had no idea that there would be many obstacles in her path as the unexpected heir of the Smith family; to them, she was just another block, and they would stop at nothing to get rid of her. With new friends, love, and flows of enemies, would Annalise withstand the heavy blows of different nemesis or will she break and leave her fortune?