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Dorian Keene was once untouchable—admired, feared, and cruel in the way boys are when they believe the world belongs to them. Caspian Vale was the opposite: quiet, brilliant, marked, and easy to target. What Dorian never admitted was the truth beneath the cruelty—he was terrified of how badly he wanted the boy he was meant to destroy. Years later, life shows no mercy. Penniless, grieving, and battling a worsening illness, Dorian takes a job that feels like a miracle only to discover his employer is Caspian. No longer the boy he buried, but a powerful tech mogul with an unreadable stare, a carefully constructed life… and a fiancée at his side. Dorian tries to keep his distance. Caspian pretends nothing ever existed. But desire doesn’t die, it waits. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell where control ends and longing begins. As secrets surface and memories fracture, Caspian is forced to confront a truth he’s spent his life denying and Dorian must decide how much of himself he’s willing to lose for a love that was never supposed to exist. ~~~~~ “Once His Nightmare, Now His Employee” is a slow-burn MM romance that drifts from longing into obsession, where power shifts, choices cut deep, and loving the wrong man may cost everything.

“You can hide from anyone—but not from the devil who owns you.” There are choices that make us and others that break us. For Alessia Rivera, her worst mistake became her only way out. Alessia Rivera's world came crashing down the night she found her fiancé with her best friend in bed. Trust has been broken, humiliation dumped on her, everything ripped apart. But her family was concerned about power, not her pain. The marriage between her and Damon was politics, not love, and if she refused to play along, they would let her father rot in jail. One desperate night, Alessia sought escape in the arms of a stranger. A mistake. A secret. A fire that should not have happened. But Dante Moretti is not a man you forget. He is danger wrapped in a tailored suit, the kind of man people fear to whisper about. Cold. Commanding. Obsessive. And weeks later, Alessia learns the truth that rip her world apart: she is pregnant…And Dante is the father of her unborn child and he is also the mysterious new partner of her family’s empire. Now she is trapped in a cruel game. Marry the man who betrayed her to protect her father, or confess the truth to the devil who already marked her as his. To Dante, he doesn’t care about vows, rings, or the lies she hides behind. He wants one thing—her. And he will burn her world to ashes to claim what belongs to him. Because to Dante, love is not tender. Love is possession. Love is war. And Alessia is the only one that can quench this fire. The question is, how does one resist the devil who already owns her soul?

She didn't realise just how much she was hated, she merely wanted love, she begged for it but at the end, she was merely a stand in for the fake daughter. The man she loved hated her, her family disliked her, her adopted sister killed her. However, when she gets a second chance, she doesn't allow anyone to walk over her! "You'll sacrifice your position at the company for your adopted sister, Rhea!" "You're the older sister, stop acting so dramatic and give way for your younger sister!" Her brother's and parents say to her, but she fights back and instead, makes her cry! But why the heck did this CEO change? He didn't come close to her previously! "Rhea, marry me and I'll make sure that everyone who touches you regrets it." "I'm not in the mood for marriage right now!" "You don't have to worry, I'll give you everything you want, even my properties." "Maybe marriage isn't such a bad idea after all..."

"Ketika cinta berubah menjadi luka, dan pengorbanan dibalas dengan pengkhianatan. Dini, seorang istri yang berjuang keras demi suami yang ia cintai, terjebak dalam perjanjian dengan majikannya demi biaya pengobatan. Namun, kebenaran yang terungkap menghancurkan dunianya—uang yang ia kirimkan digunakan untuk mahar pernikahan suaminya dengan sahabatnya sendiri. Dibuang oleh keluarga dan suaminya, Dini harus bangkit dari kehancuran. Akankah ia mampu menemukan kembali harga dirinya di tengah luka pengkhianatan ini? Sebuah kisah menyayat hati tentang cinta, pengorbanan, dan kekuatan seorang perempuan."

Ia arogan, dingin, dan tak pernah salah di matanya. Ia keras kepala, berani, dan selalu siap melawan. Sejak pertemuan pertama, Aisyah dan Rayyan seperti api dan bensin—saling membakar. Namun, kebencian yang mereka pupuk justru perlahan berubah menjadi sesuatu yang lebih berbahaya: cinta. Mampukah mereka berdamai dengan luka masa lalu dan gengsi masing-masing? Atau justru takdir memisahkan dua hati yang diam-diam saling mencari?

Nadia tidak lagi menjadi wanita yang memohon penjelasan atau mempertahankan cinta yang tak pernah dimilikinya. Ia memilih berpisah dengan damai demi harga dirinya, demi kebebasan dari hubungan yang hanya membuatnya terluka. Ketika Davin datang membawa Selina, Nadia memilih pergi tanpa menoleh. Menutup pintu masa lalu yang selama empat tahun merenggut ketenangannya. Di balik kepasrahannya, Davin justru mulai merasakan kehilangan. Ketenangan Nadia menjadi hantaman yang tidak pernah ia bayangkan. Bahwa wanita yang dulu selalu memilih diam demi mempertahankan rumah tangga, kini justru yang paling siap melawan dan melepaskan. Lantas bagaimana Nadia menghadapi kenyataan kalau tidak ada perusahaan mana pun yang sudi menerimanya bekerja? Bahkan toko kecil pun menolaknya. Bagaimana ia akan menghidupi diri dan anaknya? Tampaknya ada yang salah. Siapa yang sengaja membuatnya seperti ini?

Elena Vale has spent her entire life sticking to the rules, until the night she's forced into an engagement she never wanted. Fleeing from her high-society cage, she ends up in a grimy bar, drinking with a brooding stranger who offers the one thing she never expected: freedom.  Jack Roman is the last man a woman like Elena Vale should marry. Tattooed, sharp-tongued, and hiding secrets behind his sea blue eyes. He's everything she's been taught to avoid. But when an impulsive drunken wedding turns into a full-blown scandal, Elena seizes the chaos. She makes him a deal — six months of pretending, then they part ways. To Elena, faking a marriage with a stranger is supposed to keep her safe. But as sparks turn to passion, and buried truths come to light, Elena realizes she may have just traded one kind of prison for another. Because Jack didn't just walk into her life by accident… and falling in love with him might just cost her everything.

Pernikahan Emma dan Shane dimulai tanpa cinta—hanya perjodohan dua keluarga elite Amerika. Namun waktu menumbuhkan perasaan, hingga satu malam kesalahan meruntuhkan segalanya. Dikhianati dan dikecewakan, Emma menghilang bersama putri kecil mereka, Julliete. Bertahun-tahun kemudian, cinta dan dendam kembali bertemu dalam wajah generasi baru. Saat Julliete kembali ke Amerika dan bertemu pria yang membuatnya jatuh hati, ia tak tahu bahwa darah dan nama belakangnya menjadi ancaman. Rahasia, perebutan cinta, dan bahaya dari masa lalu akan menguji segalanya.

Elena Sinclair rebuilt her life from the ruins of a future that never happened. Five years ago, Adrian Kane chose his father’s fortune over her—and it destroyed them both. Now, his late father’s will forces him to marry her within six months or lose his billion-dollar empire to his ruthless brother. Elena’s plan is simple: say YES, marry him, and break his heart where it hurts most. But the man she remembers—the cold heir who left her—is gone. In his place stands a man who has faced therapy, loss, and five years of grief he never wanted her to see. The more she seeks revenge, the harder it becomes to tell who’s really being punished. When the truth finally comes out, she learns that sometimes love’s second chance begins where the first one ended.

Love was never soft. It was loaded. New York City, 1950. Behind velvet curtains and glittering chandeliers, the city’s elite dance to the tune of money, politics, and blood. Amy Finn is a cold-blooded mafia boss with a reputation as deadly as the gun she keeps hidden in her tailored tuxedo. She doesn’t make mistakes. Not anymore. Especially not with women. Especially not with daughters of the enemy. Eliano “Ellie” Marchetti is young, wealthy, and restless — born into the family that betrayed Amy and the woman she once loved. But when Ellie sneaks into a forbidden warehouse one night and witnesses something she was never meant to see, their lives collide. Obsessed, fascinated, and dangerously drawn to each other, Ellie and Amy begin a slow-burning dance of dominance, desire, and secrets too explosive to bury. But Ellie doesn’t know the truth — about her mother, about the war she was born into, and the woman whose heart Amy once vowed never to touch again. One woman is fire. The other is the match. And some love stories are written in gunpowder.