Straw Hat Pirates

Rumor negatif mengenai profesi penari dan juga strata sosial yang berbeda menjadi alasan utama Jelita tidak mendapat restu dari keluarga Wandra Danurweda, kekasihnya. Walau demikian, Wandra tetap berusaha mendapatkan restu demi bisa bersama dengan Jelita. Tindakan nekat menghamili kekasihnya adalah salah satu caranya. Lalu, berhasilkah keduanya bersatu dalam ikatan pernikahan atau justru kisah mereka kandas di tengah jalan dan menghilang ditelan waktu?

Kita tidak bisa memilih dengan siapa kita jatuh cinta. Jika kita mencintai orang yang seharusnya tidak kita cintai, apakah itu salah? Lantas, siapa yang harus disalahkan? Apakah dua insan yang diberi karunia itu, ataukah Tuhan yang menciptakan perasaan tersebut? Pertanyaan dan pemikiran ini terus berkecamuk di otak Indira, seorang wanita karir yang sukses, ibu dari seorang anak yang unggul, serta istri dari seorang Jaksa muda yang berwibawa. Hidupnya selalu tampak sempurna di mata semua orang, walaupun pada kenyataannya, Indira tidak pernah merasa bahagia. Tujuh tahun pernikahan dengan Anggara harus ia tutupi dengan kebohongan-kebohongan, serta senyum dan tawa palsu. Namun, ketika cinta berpihak kepadanya, ia malah melabuhkan hatinya kepada Arjuna, seorang Insinyur Sipil yang bekerja di proyek pembangunan kantornya. Hanya di depan Arjuna, Indira bisa menjadi dirinya yang sesungguhnya. Jujur dan utuh! Tapi sayangnya, mereka berdua tidak selayaknya memadu kasih. Inikah yang Indira cari selama ini? Ataukah hanya keputusasaan sesaat? (Cover by Verona)

J'étais une gamine des bas-fonds quand je suis tombée amoureuse de Damon Vitale, le Parrain le plus redouté de Paris. Pendant cinq ans, j'ai été à lui. J'ai encaissé neuf balles pour lui. Il embrassait mes cicatrices pendant que je me vidais de mon sang pour lui. Il me serrait contre lui. Il passait le collier de la reine autour de mon cou. Puis, une fois remise, il me baisait jusqu'à me faire perdre toute notion de moi-même, avec une passion qui donnait l'illusion de l'éternité. Je croyais que nous passerions nos vies ensemble. Je pensais qu'il m'épouserait. Mais lors de notre neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuvième nuit ensemble, il m'a annoncé qu'il était fiancé. À Bianca, une princesse de la mafia issue d'une famille rivale. J'ai avalé mes larmes. Il s'est contenté de m'attraper par le menton, de souffler la fumée à mon visage et de rire. « Tu n'as quand même pas cru que tu pourrais m'épouser, n'est-ce pas, Nora ? Soyons clairs. On baise. C'est tout. Tu n'es pas une partenaire. Tu es une œuvre d'art que je collectionne. Une chatte qui m'appartient. » Une chatte. C'est tout ce qu'il a jamais voulu que je sois. Alors j'ai attrapé un téléphone jetable. « J'accepte ton offre. Trois jours. Sors-moi de Paris. »

Almara memiliki pernikahan dan suami yang di mata orang lain amat sempurna. Namun, cinta Almara tak pernah untuk Rangga, suaminya. Dia sepenuhnya hanya mencintai Ardan, seorang artis yang dulu pernah menjadi kekasihnya semasa kuliah. Di tengah kegalauan hatinya, sebuah tragedi menimpanya. Saat dia berada di taman, Almara ditikam oleh orang tak dikenal. Saat dia sadar, seorang lelaki misterius memberinya sebuah pie buah berwarna emas yang mampu mengembalikannya ke masa lalu untuk memperbaiki kehidupan cintanya. Namun tanpa disangka, dalam perjalanan memperbaiki masa lalunya, Almara justru menemukan banyak rahasia Rangga yang selama ini tersembunyi. Saat dia benar- benar ingin kembali, semua sudah terlambat.

"You'll never be my mate. You'll never be my Queen," he snarled, slamming into me like he hated how much he needed me. I moaned, wrapping my legs tighter around his waist. "Then why do you lose control every time you're inside me?" He growled, his pace growing rougher, desperate. I smiled. "Keep lying to yourself, Xander." "I hate you, I hate you so much," ****** Raven is the most hated wolf in her pack for a crime her family committed against the Royal Family. She was hated, bullied and insulted at every turn, and as if things couldn't get twisted, fate decided to play a game on her, the one man who her family betrayed turns out to be her fated mate. The ruthless Alpha king Xander. The very man who despises her existence. She tried to reject him but he refused her rejection, promising to make her life a living hell. But things are not as they seem. There are secrets that need to be unraveled, a dangerous pull they cannot ignore, a bond they cannot sever. And as their worlds collide, Raven begins to uncover dark secrets buried deep within their pasts. Betrayal. Lies. Forces that threaten not only their bond but everything they’ve ever known. And what happened when the line between hate and passion blurs? Will Xander and Raven look past their family hatred and join as one to fight their enemies or will their hatred consume them both?

"I will never love a person like you." she spat in the face of the person who caged her between his arms and wall. The almighty Parker Bickett, the heir of the biggest group in the state, for whom people are dying to get one glance and hands to shake for the welfare of their life and job, was entirely shunned by the words of this lady between his arms. He wanted her, from the very start, but his coward self from 10 years ago never let him have her till this date. Jane Martin, the girl he fell in love with during their youth, but never accepted till she fell apart from him. He did everything in his hands, from begging to get humiliation, rejection to ignore, but when would she see his sincerity and set him free from this dark well of guilt and pain that he lived alone all these years.

Mila Luna Blaine works as a supervisor for Unique real estates, a company owned by the son of the renowned pilot, Elise Cohen. Being a supervisor and head of her department automatically placed her at the board of directors level and a thorn in Bentley Cohen's flesh. He couldn't stand the strong, intelligent, and independent woman who always stood up to him and questioned his every order. He finds her disrespectful and so full of herself and she sees him as an incompetent, unnecessarily authoritative, unfriendly man who gives absurd orders and directives. She, therefore, objects to his rules which makes her an enemy to him. Things get heated when it turns out that their fathers are childhood friends and that they have settled an engagement for them without their consent. Will they continue to be enemies or will they look at each other in a different perspective other than hatred. It seems their hatred goes beyond their office

My mate, Alpha Lucius, was kissing me when I heard it slip through his mind-link. “My sweet little pup. Daddy’s moving you and Mommy into the new villa tomorrow. I built it just for you.” That’s when I knew. The villa he’d spent a fortune of my pack’s money on… was a love nest. For his bastard and his whore, Clara. He didn't even notice I'd gone cold, too busy bragging about his re-election as Alliance Chairman. He’d been Chairman for four years. Everyone thought his re-election was a sure thing. But the fool forgot. He was only the most powerful Alpha because of me. He was only Chairman because of me. Because of my Silver Moon Pack. Because of my bloodline. I shoved him away. I sent an urgent mind-link to my father. "Lucius has betrayed the Silver Moon bloodline. He and that omega bitch… they’re going to die."

When Alexander Smith stands in front of me and says he's going to marry someone else, that's when I realize he's been reborn too. I remember our 20 years of love in our past life. A plane crash. And then, rebirth. "This is to save Sophia," he says. "In our past life, she was sold to a Vostmark oligarch after her father's political scandal. Not long after, she took her own life due to abuse. I can't let that tragedy happen again, so I need to get engaged to her." As he speaks, he hands me an orange prescription bottle. "If you take this, you'll forget me for a little while. You won't feel the pain. It's just seven days. Once her father's scandal blows over, you'll stop the medication and your memory will return. Then I'll end the engagement and officially propose to you." I stare at the bottle, knowing it's a lie. Not the part about Sophia's suicide. The lie is about the drug. He thinks it only causes temporary memory loss. But I know better. The suppressant causes permanent damage to emotional memory. The seven-day countdown isn't the time it takes for my memories to return. It's the time it takes for my love for him to die.

“The sight of you irks me!” He growled in her face, hatred, and desire mixing up to become one single but tormenting emotion. Timidly, she stuttered, “I’ll stay out of sight, My King–” “Did I ask you to do that?” He seethed, closing the small gap between their bodies. “What do you want then!” She retorted, equally frustrated. “I want you dammit!” He roared, grabbing her arms. “I want to hate you and I do hate you but fuck do I want to devour you till you can’t take any more of me.” **************** Haylee Smith, a nineteen-year-old who had never known peace since she was born was given to the cruel Alpha King by her destined mate after he chose, mated, and impregnated her dubious twin sister. Haylee was still bleeding from the wound of betrayal but she was given a second chance mate in the Alpha King. Alpha King Xalen, a ruthless twenty-seven-year-old, was still mourning his late wife and mother of his kids when he found out that the moon goddess had given him another mate– a slave– to be discovered at his beloved wife’s funeral. What a sick game of fate! A new mate at his ex-mate’s funeral! Hell did break loose but so did uncontrollable passion. Find out more in the pages of this book.