Rooftop Atap

Kepopuleran seorang artis bisa membuat banyak orang mengidolakannya, bahkan sampai memimpikan bisa bersama hidup satu atap bersama. Pasti sangat menyenangkan, kan? Itu tidak berlaku bagi Rafael, seorang mahasiswa di salah satu universitas negeri. Baginya, kepopuleran artis hanyalah omong kosong belaka. Kekesalan yang ia alami bukan tanpa sebab. Sara, teman masa kecil Rafael selalu membuatnya jengkel, padahal wanita itu berlabel artis papan atas paling populer. Sama hanya dengan teman masa kecil, Rafael mengetahui sikap, perilaku, hingga kebiasaan buruk Sara, kebanyakan dari itu tidak dipublikasikan karena ditakutkan berdampak pada popularitasnya sendiri. Hingga satu ketika, mereka tumbuh dewasa dan candaan yang mereka lakukan sejak dulu berubah menjadi taburan kisah menyenangkan. Akankah mereka tetap mempertahankan persahabatan itu atau justru mulai menjalin hubungan yang lebih serius?

Setelah kakaknya diusir dari rumah, kini giliran Kaila dipaksa untuk menikah dengan seorang pria yang tak dikenalnya sama sekali, pria itu bernama Melviano Azekiel yang merupakan anak dari atasan papa-nya. Tekanan demi tekanan Kaila dapatkan setelah tinggal satu atap dengan Melviano yang ternyata memiliki sikap yang kurang baik dengannya. Apalagi setelah sah menikah, Melviano belum juga mendapatkan hak-nya sebagai suami. Hal ini justru membuat Melviano begitu murka dengan Kaila. “Aku salah apa sih, Mel? Hah?” tanya Kaila dengan nada tinggi. “Salah apa? Kamu pikir pakai otak, Kai! Wanita baik-baik tidak akan mau menyerahkan kesuciannya sama laki-laki yang bukan suaminya.” Melviano menatap Kaila nyalang. Akahkah Melviano dan Kaila mampu menjalani kehidupan rumah tangga yang tak ada cinta sama sekali di dalamnya? Terlebih mereka menikah dengan rasa saling terpaksa satu sama lain.

Right before graduation, my roommate waved around a job offer from some overseas company. It had a three-day workweek, with a starting salary of $50,000 a month. It sounded too good to be true, so I warned her it might be a scam. When she struck out on other job leads, I asked my dad to get her a position at his company. She scoffed at the eight-hour days and $6,000 monthly salary, calling it slave labor. Then she went live online, falsely accusing my dad of inappropriate advances and pressuring her to bear him a son. When skeptics questioned her, she swore no woman would lie about her honor. The internet erupted, branding my dad a predator. Our company collapsed under the backlash, leaving us drowning in debt. To spare me, my dad jumped from a rooftop to his death. Devastated, I wandered into traffic and was struck by a truck. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day Amber got that shady offer.

Raga, pria berusia 25 tahun, memilih hidup sederhana sebagai penjaga sebuah kos putri di pinggiran kota. Di mata orang lain, ia hanyalah pemuda biasa yang bekerja demi menyambung hidup. Tak ada yang tahu, Raga menyimpan masa lalu kelam yang membuatnya menyingkir dari kehidupan sebelumnya. Hari-harinya terlihat tenang, hingga kedatangan para penghuni baru mengubah segalanya. Gadis manja, janda muda, hingga wanita pekerja keras—semuanya tinggal di bawah atap yang sama, dengan rahasia dan kehangatan masing-masing. Godaan datang tanpa henti. Senyum samar, lirikan penuh arti, dan momen-momen intim yang tak sengaja tercipta membuat Raga harus berjuang menahan diri. Namun semakin ia menolak, semakin kuat tarikan yang menyeretnya ke dalam hubungan terlarang dengan para penghuni kos. Bisakah Raga bertahan menjaga batas, atau justru tenggelam dalam gairah liar yang siap membakar dirinya?

On the same day I was admitted into the hospital for my pregnancy, my husband, Charles Page, received 108 missed calls on his phone. It was from Sue, his mentee, a girl who had cancer. I asked if he was going to pick up, and he replied impatiently, "All she does is call me all day! Doesn't she have any other family? She's so annoying." Later, that very girl posted a photo of herself on the hospital rooftop, wearing a white dress. The caption said: [If I jump down from here, will I become a butterfly in my next life? Maybe then, everyone won't hate me.] Charles only glanced at the post before chuckling mockingly. "What does she mean, turn into a butterfly? Is she delusional?" But after that, he grew visibly restless, before rushing out and not returning all night. That night, I hemorrhaged and was taken into emergency care. When the nurse asked if I wanted to keep the baby, I looked at the empty space beside me and answered calmly. "No, I don't."

During Christmas break, my boyfriend, Trevor Hayes, asks me to stop by and feed the dog that his childhood friend, Evelyn Summers, keeps at her place. I bring a bag of kibble over. But the second I open the door, a huge pit bull lunges at me and bites into my face and arms. Luckily, a neighbor hears me screaming and pulls me out of its jaws, but the damage is already done. The scars will stay with me forever. I break down, but Trevor blames me instead. "You must've done something wrong when you fed Mojo and set him off. You just got a scar, but Mojo's dead!" The weight of it all crushes me until I climb a rooftop and jump. After dying, I see Trevor holding Evelyn in his arms. "Honey, you're so clever. Starving Mojo for a few days really worked. Now, she's dead. We can finally be together." When I open my eyes again, I'm back on the day Trevor asks me to go feed that dog.

Mature (21+) “Pak... bukannya tadi sudah kita lakuin di sofa?” bisik Amara dengan wajah memerah saat Darian kembali melucuti pakaiannya. “Kau tahu, Amara, untuk satu anak... kita butuh lebih dari sekali untuk bercinta,” jawabnya berat, sebelum membaringkannya di atas ranjang. Amara Aurelia hidup sebatang kara dan tak pernah memikirkan pernikahan, sampai sebuah kecelakaan membuatnya kehilangan segalanya. Di ambang kematian, hanya satu penyesalan yang tersisa: ia belum merasakan menjadi seorang ibu. Darian Lancaster, CEO dingin dan kejam, tanpa sengaja terlibat dalam insiden itu yang dihantui rasa bersalah dan siap membayar ganti rugi apapun. Hingga sebuah kontrak gila pun lahir; pernikahan rahasia tanpa cinta. Amara harus menjadi istri tersembunyi, tinggal dibawah atap Darian dan dibawah pengawasan ketatnya. Namun, bagaimana jika hubungan yang dimulai hanya demi sebuah janin ini diam-diam mengubah segalanya?

After eight years together, I took a hit for my surgeon boyfriend. Milton Woodard vowed I could ask for anything. Everyone assumed I'd seize the chance to propose, locking him down for good. Instead, I looked him in the eye and said, "Let's break up." Then I walked away without a backward glance. Milton smirked, betting with his buddies that I'd come crawling back in under three days, calling me a desperate lapdog chasing his attention. He was dead wrong because I'd been reborn. In my last life, I proposed to him and won. Overwhelmed by the news, his first love threw herself off a rooftop and killed herself. Milton unleashed his grief-fueled rage on me. On our wedding night, he slashed my face and locked me in a dank, claustrophobic basement. When I got pregnant, he force-fed me supplements until the baby grew too big for me to deliver. I hemorrhaged, torn apart, and died in agony on the birthing table. Now, reborn on the day I saved his life, I was done playing his fool.

SHE WAS a typical student who always got bullied in the Stoneheart University, not because of her looks but because of her magic. She always believed that she was just a weak enchanter since the first time she used magic. However, things started to change the moment she encountered a weird guy who seemed to love black at an abandoned building's rooftop inside their school. Slowly, her unknown fate started to unfold. Out of the ten types of magic existing in their world with a lot of subtypes, why would she have to possess such a controversial one? Instead of not being able to use mana the way she wanted to, why must she have to obtain the one that is unwanted? Dark. Black. Two similar words that were always seen by people as evil. Light. White. Two words that were always regarded as good. In a world where everyone has a negative thought about black magic, could a person born with it last until the end while assuming she has such a difficult task she didn't even wish for? Book cover by Ate Angelica Maghirang

Rumah tangga Clara Wijaya retak oleh pengakuan sang suami yang menghamili sekretarisnya. Seolah belum cukup menderita, suaminya memutuskan untuk membawa sang madu untuk tinggal satu atap dengan Clara. "Dia telah mengandung anakku, sesuatu yang tak bisa kudapatkan darimu. Dan kau harus menerimanya demi aku!" Samuel. "Hanya karena aku mandul, kau mencampakkanku begitu hebat. Tidakkah kau tahu, aku tulus mencintaimu," Clara. Saat merasa gelisah akan keadaan yang dihadapi, perempuan malang itu masuk kedalam club malam untuk menghibur diri. Siapa sangka, Clara yang mabuk malah menghabiskan malam dengan seorang CEO tampan billioner. Pria itu menawari Clara sebuah kontrak kerjasama untuk membalas suaminya. "Apakah kamu setuju untuk membalas suamimu, dengan syarat, kamu harus tidur denganku setiap kali aku mau," Christan. Apakah hanya karena menginginkan tubuh molek perempuan itu, Christan memberikan tawaran mengejutkan ini? Atau apakah pria itu menyimpan alasan yang disembunyikan dari Clara?