Playing To Win: How Strategy Really Works

Mara Wolfe has clawed her way from humble beginnings to the top of the city’s legal world, building a prestigious law firm brick by brick-while hiding her true nature as a chubby, fiercely intelligent werewolf. Her world shatters when she uncovers her husband’s betrayal: he’s plotting to siphon her hard-earned fortune with the help of his cunning, much younger assistant. Refusing to become a victim, Mara unleashes her sharpest instincts-both human and lupine-to turn the tables. Just as she sets her trap, an enigmatic new associate, Lucas, offers his help. His price? Just one date. But Lucas is more than he seems, and his unexpected loyalty forces Mara to confront what she truly wants from life and love. As secrets unravel and loyalties shift, Mara must decide whether vengeance or vulnerability will define her future. In the end, when a woman becomes the queen of her fate, she always has the chance to rewrite her love story.

Studying abroad can be incredibly lonely at times. That night, I was in my room, indulging in a little treat for myself, when my best friend suddenly burst through the door. "Doing it yourself is no fun. Come on. There's a super cool cabaret show going on. Let's go see it together!" On stage, my friend was reclining in a chair behind the curtain, with two strong-looking men on top of her. "Come on. Join us for a group dance..."

The day my husband left the country on a business trip with his assistant, I learned—by sheer accident—that his archenemy was plotting revenge overseas. Without a second thought, I raced to the airport and stopped him from boarding the plane. But his assistant went ahead, alone. And over there, she was killed brutally. Not a trace of her remains was ever found. When my husband received the news, he fell apart. Wracked with guilt, eaten alive by remorse, he spiraled into a relentless, violent mania. In the past three years, I'd been in and out of hospitals more times than I could count because of him. And this time, he pushed me so far—I lost our child. Then I overheard a conversation between him and his secretary. "Sir, Casey is still alive. Why keep pretending you're sick? Aren't you afraid your wife will find out and leave you?" "Leave me? What right does she have to be angry?" He laughed coldly. "If she hadn't stopped me from going abroad, Casey would've never been lured away by that bastard. Everything Linda's suffering now—she brought it on herself."

Nyatanya bukan hanya tokoh Siti Nurbaya saja yang mengalami nasib miris. Rizal, seorang dokter residen juga harus memperjuangkan Dara, gadis yang dia cintai demi meluluhkan ego keluarganya. Mampukah Rizal dan Dara menembus tembok besar di antara hubungan mereka. Atau mereka harus menyerah karena banyak hati yang harus mereka sakiti. "Aku nggak pernah salah dengan pilihan dan keputusanku. Dara, ayo kita menikah ...." Rizal menatap sendu gadis berbulu mata lentik yang tengah berdiri dihadapannya. "Jika memang ini yang terbaik, maka aku akan dengan ikhlas melepaskanmu," bisik Dara lembut di telinga Rizal malam itu.

What if you were held captive by your own family? Emma Rawlins has spent the last year a prisoner. The months following her mother's death dragged her father into a paranoid spiral of conspiracy theories and doomsday premonitions. Obsessing him, controlling him, they now whisper the end days are finally at hand. And he doesn’t intend to face them alone. Emma finds herself drugged and dragged to a secluded cabin, the last refuge from a society supposedly due to collapse. Their cabin a snowbound fortress, her every move controlled, but even that isn't enough to weather the end of the world. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing Everything she knows is out of reach, lost beyond a haze of white. There is no choice but to play her father's game while she plans her escape. But there is a force far colder than the freezing drifts. Ancient, ravenous, it knows no mercy. And it's already had a taste...

Indahnya pernikahan kini tinggal lah angan-angan semu bagi Mitha, ketika dia harus menerima kenyataan bahwa dirinya tengah berbadan dua. Mitha hamil hasil pemerkosaan yang dia alami di malam perayaan Bridal Shower pernikahannya, oleh lelaki yang tak dikenal. Demi menjaga nama baik keluarganya, Mitha terpaksa memendam semua ini sendirian. Dia terlalu takut jika kelak pernikahannya dengan Handaru batal kalau sampai aibnya terbongkar. Hingga malapetaka itu pun akhirnya datang menimpa Mitha, tepat di malam pertama pernikahannya dengan Handaru. Handaru yang marah setelah tahu wanita yang baru saja dia nikahi ternyata sedang mengandung anak orang lain, lantas memperlakukan Mitha layaknya benda mati yang tak memiliki rasa sakit. Akankah, seseorang datang menolong Mitha dari kebrutalan Handaru? Lalu, siapa sebenarnya lelaki yang sudah memperkosa Mitha? Simak kisah mereka dalam cerita ini.

Melody Amelia Campbell is a seventeen years old girl who lives with her foster parents. She has a hard life and survives her bullies everyday. One evening while she was working at the local cafe, she met the multi billionaire Tristan Salvatore. Their life was a fairytale until one day a huge misunderstanding happened which led them to break apart. Years later, Melody had to come back to the city which broke her but not only her this time, she came back with a child. What will happen when Tristan finds out about them? Will he get them back or are the walls Melody built is too strong to break

Raquel Renaud has spent her entire life overshadowed by the brilliance of her younger sister, Camille—the epitome of beauty and perfection. Raquel has long accepted her role as the family's overlooked daughter, enduring subtle humiliations and a constant sense of inadequacy. When her parents arrange her marriage to Alvaro Bernardi, a strikingly handsome and wildly ambitious businessman, Raquel dares to hope that this union might finally grant her a life of purpose and love. To Alvaro, Raquel is just a tool to fulfill his family's obligations. He hates her—her looks, her existence, even her audacity to love him. Alvaro’s contempt turns to betrayal when Raquel discovers the cruelest truth: Alvaro is having an affair with Camille, her younger sister. The betrayal shatters Raquel to her core. With her heart in ruins, she walks away from the wreckage of her marriage, keeping one devastating secret: she’s pregnant with twins. Five years later, Raquel returns—not as the woman once overlooked and discarded, but as a force to be reckoned with. Her beauty, strength, and newfound grace now turn heads, leaving everyone who once dismissed her in awe. Beneath her dazzling transformation, Raquel hides the wounds of a past that refuses to heal. When fate thrusts her back into the path of Alvaro—a man now consumed by the weight of his past mistakes—and Camille, who has woven herself deeply into Alvaro’s life, old secrets begin to unravel, threatening to tear everything apart. In a world where love is laced with regret and revenge, Raquel must fight her fiercest battle yet: to protect herself, her children, and the fragile happiness she’s painstakingly built. Will the ghosts of her past rise to destroy her, or will she finally take control and emerge victorious in the story of her own life?

Matinding takot at konsensya ang nagtulak kay Chase upang kumagat sa isang kahibangan. Alam niyang hindi na maitatama ang pagkakamaling sinadya man o hindi. Ngunit dahil sa hindi inaasahang pangyayari, handa siyang gawin ang lahat upang bumalik sa panahong kaya pang baguhin ang pangyayaring gumulo sa buhay niya. Saksi ang oras at panahon sa imposibleng misyon ni Chase. Magagawa ba niyang maitama ang lahat bago dumating ang itinakdang oras?

Miles Landry is trying to put violence behind him when he takes up work as a private detective focused on humdrum adultery cases. But when a Tibetan monk hires him to find a missing person, things get weird fast. Charged with tracking down the reincarnation of a man possessed by a demonic guardian from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Miles is plunged into a world of fortune-tellers, gangsters, and tantric rituals. The year is 1991 and a series of grisly murders has rocked New York City in the run up to a visit from the Dalai Lama. The police attribute the killings to Chinatown gang warfare. Miles–skeptical of the supernatural–is inclined to agree. But what if the monster he's hunting is more than a myth? ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing