Private Teacher

Keajaiban datang bisa dari sudut manapun dan kapanpun. Begitupun dengan kebahagian dan kesedihan manusia biasa tidak bisa memprediksi. Karena hanya Tuhan yang dapat memutuskan dan mewujudkan. Sama halnya dengan keadaan Anna, ia pernah tepuruk. Diagnosa dokter untuknya, terasa petir disiang hari yang menyambar tanpa panduan. Penyakit yang tak pernah terpikirkan, bahkan diandaikan oleh Anna kini bersemayam apik di tubuhnya. Bahkan sudah sejak lahir dia mengidapnya, tapi dia tidak pernah menyadari. Anna menganggap rasa sakit yang dirasakan selama ini hanya sakit biasa, bukan karena ada kista yang tinggal dibagian otaknya. Tapi dia disadarkan berkat kata mutiara dari penyiar radio yang tanpa sengaja ia dengarkan. Anna tersadar berkat dia. Diofano Alghiffary. Pelipur lara Anna kala musibah melandanya. Hanya dengan suaranya membuat Annandya jatuh pada pesonanya “Suaramu adalah penyamangatku . Anna selalu berkata demikian setiap harinya.

Alex Marbella had been feeling lonely in the apartment; he had come to the city for his job, and there was a stranger he met in the street. They both felt a spark; the rain was quite heavy, and when he asked him to come home with him, he said yes. The night was filled with passion and laughter. They talked about their lives, their dreams, and their fears. On that lustful evening, they shared a sweet kiss and started to make lustful things. But for that one night, they had connected in a way neither of them had ever experienced before. They experience a night that they will never forget with one night of passionate romance. Spend a night of pleasure and excitement, exploring the depths of their desires and discovering newfound pleasure. Enjoy a night of cherished memories and unforgettable moments with the stranger.

Clara Sterling is twenty-seven, polished, and on the move. After being wrongly blamed for a student’s breakdown at her previous school in Boston, she accepts a mid-semester teaching position at Blackwood, a prestigious private academy known for its reputation and the secrets. She hopes for a fresh start. Instead, she encounters Gabriel Vane. At nineteen, Gabriel is sharp and carries an unexpressed grief. He is the student who resists management and demands attention. After losing a year to his father’s death, he returns to Blackwood feeling incomplete but more unpredictable. When Clara steps into Room 14 on her first day and meets his intellectual challenge, something inside him stirs for the first time in a long while. What starts as a battle of wits over a poetry anthology evolves into a connection neither can put into words or control. Gabriel hacks into her private file, and instead of reporting it, Clara replies to his note. The distinction between teacher and student blurs gradually until one rainy Tuesday afternoon in a locked classroom, it vanishes completely. Yet Blackwood is keeping an eye on them. Someone has reported their interactions to the headmistress. Even worse, someone removed pages from Clara’s file before her arrival, indicating that she didn’t get the job despite her scandal in Boston. She was chosen because of it. As their relationship deepens and threats converge, both Clara and Gabriel must confront the same question: what does it cost to want something you were never meant to have? The Lesson Plan is a dark, slow-burning forbidden romance about desire, grief, and the precarious space between authority and intimacy.

Maureen Salagunting is a go-getter whose dreams are bigger than her ability and wallet. In fact, she wanted to become a neurosurgeon because she thought it is the hardest profession anyone could have, and she doesn't mind if she would be an old, loveless maiden as long as her bank account is fat and flooding with money. But fate didn't coincide with her plans and she settled with being a private school teacher, then an online live seller when COVID-19 shook the lives of humanity that made her lose her job as well. When she thought everything couldn't get any worse, her shaken life shattered totally when her mother lost the battle against the virus on the day of her 24th birthday, making her wish to cease her existence too. After crying her heart to God, a dashing, mysterious man in a business suit was waiting outside the chapel, telling her to fulfill the marriage agreement she signed eight years ago as a joke. Should she deny it? Or should they begin faking love amidst the pandemic?

I thought your promises were real, but they were a joke. You came to happiness, make a mess afterwards, then disappear. No good will come from accepting betrayal from a trusted one, that's what happened to Green Elira Natusha. After enduring the deep heartbreak of her lover's infidelity, Green considered all men were just the same, equally untrustworthy for making such a promises. Langit Danendra Adyaksa, the man who came after Green's heartbreak was slowly able to bring her out of her pain and wound. Langit who started out as a nobody turned out to be the most special, all because the man had turned Green's point of view that not all men were like his former lover. But everything changed after they got married, Langit showed his truly personalities, and it was so hard for Green, there was something Green didn't know until becoming his wife. The happiness Green had imagined and Langit promised it prevously were all gone, turning into all restrictions and rules to do, Green who at first thought marrying Langit was the best decision suddenly turn back her mind. Langit was there when Green needs to cure her wounds. After her wounds were healed, Langit gave a new one with every deed and accusation laid down. Green was disappointed in Langit, but she was sure and believed that God ws planning something for her, but what? Why does the universe always take her for a joke? Can Green step out of her misery and smile happily?

(De Bonnevie Series #1) Athena de Bonnevie is from the wealthy and prominent French family in Cebu. Despite being wealthy, she stays down to earth and reachable. And as she keeps going around being friendly to everyone, she meets this undeniably gorgeous best friend of her twin brother that she never knew existed. And as time passes by, she slowly unlocks the door to the secrets of this oh-so-hot guy named Ares. But by the time the news came to her that he died, her whole world tore apart. Or so she thought.

Kai has spent his whole life trying to survive an abusive uncle, cruel classmates, and a world that never wanted him. He’s invisible. Until the day he walks into an empty classroom… and meets Mr. James Ashford who has a cold look. James sees everything Kai tries to hide—his fear, his hunger, his desperation—and he wants it. What starts as “private tutoring” quickly becomes a contract, new rules, a new home, and a new version of Kai shaped by the hands of a man who should never want him. But when threatening messages appear, describing what they’ll do to Kai just to break James, the teacher becomes something far more dangerous than a protector. James is willing to destroy anyone or anything to keep Kai safe. Or keep him his. Kai knows he should run. He knows he should be terrified. But the most dangerous cages aren’t locked… They’re whispered, touched, and promised by a man who says: “I’ll burn the world before I let it take you.”

Alena didn't believe she could marry her teacher in high school. The new teacher whom she idolized so much has now become her legal husband. With the age gap that is far apart, Zeyn tries to understand Alena's young nature and tries to maintain their marriage. Then what will happen next? "You are now my wife, so I am free to touch you." "Uh, you flirtatious teacher!"

Fairytales are all about fantasy and happy endings but this one doesn't have magic, fairy godmothers, evil stepmothers and stepsisters, evil queens, and poisoned apples. This is an untold fairytale about a sophisticated lady who cares so deeply about reputation and a shameless man who doesn't give a care. Will they be able to have their happy ending like most fairytales?

Eidolon Avenue: Where the secretly guilty go to die. One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards. The sequel to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (“a great read...powerful and jarring” - Cemetery Dance) returns to the voracious Eidolon as it savors The Second Feast. A narcoleptic man in apartment 2A battles a vengeful past determined to rob him of everything as he runs from the barbaric disaster of a delusional love. A woman in 2B, reinventing herself to please a callous boyfriend, discovers the horrors that wait in the shadows of her self-renovation. The man in 2C, a teacher at the nearby Catholic girl’s school, collapses beneath the brutal consequences of his lecherous desires. An older woman in 2D, after decades dedicated to the church, is cornered at last by the grisly carnage beating at the hollow center of her faith. And a college student in 2E, hungry to escape an ignored life of invisible anonymity, finds herself captured between the pages of a ravenous book. All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every drop of spilled blood, every silent, complicit moment of cowardice is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing