Tali Gelang

Terusir dari Kahyangan setelah kehilangan Gelang Kahyangan, simbol kehormatannya, Rakasura terdampar di bumi, menghadapi dunia penuh siluman yang mengancam. Bersama Ayu, seorang gadis desa pemberani, ia berjuang untuk merebut kembali gelang tersebut dan mengungkap rencana gelap yang bisa menghancurkan dunia manusia dan Kahyangan. Namun, dalam pertempuran ini, ia menemukan sesuatu yang lebih dari sekadar kehormatan—tujuan sejati hidupnya.

Kisah dalam novel ini terinspirasi dari cerita nyata yang terjadi sekitar tahun 80'an. Dimana pada saat itu judi Porkas/SDSB sedang marak dan digandrungi masyarakat. Basri (bukan nama sebenarnya) adalah seorang lelaki miskin dan bekerja sebagai buruh serabutan. Memiliki seorang istri dan dua anak dalam kondisi kesulitan perekonomian keluarga, akhirnya terpaksa harus mengambil jalan pintas demi membahagiakan keluarganya. Masa lalu kelam serta didikan orang tua yang keras, membajakan hati laki-laki dalam satu tekad yang bulat. Dia rela melakukan ritual gila demi menggapai kekayaan, yakni membongkar sebuah kuburan. Apa yang dicari? Seutas tali pengikat mayat. Dengan benda itulah, Basri sukses mendapatkan apa yang dia impikan. Cukup sampai di sini? Tidak. Bayang-bayang kelam justru siap menghantuinya sepanjang waktu. Di balik gemerlap dunia yang dia miliki, ternyata Basri justru lebih menderita. Ikuti kisahnya dalam JIMAT TALI MAYAT.

Farhan seorang anak yang berbakti kepada ibunya. Ingin menghadiahkan gelang ditengah keterbatasan hidupnya. Ia tak pernah patah semangat dan terus berjuang mengumpulkan rupiah demi impiannya. Ditengah usahanya untuk mendapatkan gelang, ia mendapat seorang sahabat yang mengantarnya pada sebuah musibah. Dari musibah itu, akhirnya terbongkarlah asal usul keluarga ibunya, siapakah ibunya sebenarnya? Bagaimana asal usul ibunya akhirnya terungkap?

Di dunia Gaia Mare Reborn, di mana lautan dan daratan terbagi seimbang, Kazehaya Renzu dikenal sebagai petualang terlemah di Guild Petualang Samudra. Namun, hidupnya berubah saat ia menemukan Gelang Bintang, artefak kuno yang memberinya Sistem Astral kekuatan misterius yang membuatnya bisa naik level dan menyerap energi bintang. Kekuatan itu menarik perhatian banyak pihak: Kekaisaran Sunturion, Guild Gelap Black Crescent, dan Ordo Es Purba — semua ingin menguasai artefak tersebut demi ambisi mereka. Bersama Mira, Rufus, dan Lyra, Renzu harus bertahan di tengah konspirasi, pengkhianatan, dan pertempuran mematikan. Namun ketika Kael, sosok dari masa lalunya, muncul sebagai musuh, Renzu sadar bahwa Gelang Bintang bukan sekadar artefak — melainkan kunci rahasia terbesar dunia ini. Akankah ia menggunakan kekuatannya untuk menyeimbangkan dunia, atau justru menjadi awal kehancurannya? Sebuah petualangan epik tentang pilihan, kekuatan, dan takdir di dunia fantasi yang luas.

Dainelle Jones is just your average girl. She graduated college with a biology degree, and plans to go to grad school the following august to finish her studies to become a physical therapist. she was a part of sorority in college, with her best friend, Scarlet. Dainelle doesn't realize whats is going to happen during her summer vacation in Italy. But she won't ever be that average girl again. -------------Nicola Rosi isn't your average man. He never went to a public school in his life, always home schooled by a tutor. He was born into a wicked way of life and is content with it. Always being feared and getting to tell others what to do. Until he stumbles upon a certain girl who changes his perspective of life.

Fiorella Santelli is an 18-year-old virgin and innocent; she grew up in an Italian Mafia family, protected by her father Giuseppe Santelli, the most powerful Don; he kept Fiorella abroad to prevent any Capo from setting his eyes on her. Everything changed with the new boss of the Italian Mafia, Lorenzo Razzo, who has created his reputation of being fearsome and violent, whose family runs most of the casinos. He is the playboy, and no woman can resist him. When he first laid his eyes on Fiorella, he becomes obsessed with her and will do anything to make her his, including abducting her and locking her up in his bedroom forever. By the way, he is not the only man who wants her... (Italian Mafia 2/ she's still mine, now available here at Goodnovel)

For Cesar it was always about being the best at what he does. He was the kind of man whose mind swirled around business every hour of the day. He actually had nothing else to keep him occupied. Having been among the top in the business industry, each year he received an invitation to the world's greatest auction that not many people knew of or had the chance to partake in. Each year it had been the same for him. Go to the auction, get bored through the whole thing and go back home. This year though there was a turn of events when he finally found something in the auction that perked his interest or rather a pretty someone that had him feeling like he'd been missing something his whole life.

(Fiorella Santelli) I was the wife of the Devil, the Italian Mafia boss Lorenzo Razzo, his betrayal, and constant infidelities made me run away from his side, carrying with me a great secret something that will unite us forever, but in my attempt to be free again, I fell into the hands of a man who conquered me, I joined my life to his hopes for a wonderful future together, which never came. Darian MacGregor of the Irish Mafia became a possessive husband, the shadow of my every move, his desire for me knew no bounds and has no limits, my life became a hell from which I would never escape. Until Lorenzo found me, his obsession to get me back would start a great war between these two powerful men, they will stop at nothing to get what they want, but I am just an object of their desire. The innocent young woman that Lorenzo once knew no longer exists, in a few weeks I became his wife and now he is my lover.

“What can you pay in return for my protection, Ms Ferrari?” His deep velvety voice greeted my ears. “Anything!” I breathed out without weighing my options. Because I was more than desperate at that moment. He stood up and stepped near me before caressing my cheek with an unrecognizable glint in his eyes. “Then be my bride, Bella.” And just like that I sealed my destiny in his tainted hands. It was my first mistake. Second was, to fall in love with him, madly and irrevocably without knowing his hidden lethal identity. ……. Aaron Salvatore Knight! He emanates power, affluence, confidence, and the luggage of forbidden deeds. His eminence stirs the souls of the city with his domination, elusive games and title of ruthless Heir of the Knight family. Eligible billionaire? Not only that. He is the next boss in line of 'Cosa Nostra', one of the crime families in New York. He is known by the name of "Velenoso" in the underworld because whoever meddles with him or becomes a barrier in his way, has tasted his poisonous side. But Even The Devil is bound to some Traditions. To get the title of ‘Capo dei capi’ He needed to follow the tradition of marrying the Italian breed so He began his search for his prey. But what happens when some ordinary religious girl, a believer of Mother Mary's teachings, strikes his life unexpectedly with her not-so-called appearance and shakes his identity among the people? Would He be able to get her into his twisted life or would she try to escape his entanglement of games? Would she serve him the purpose of finding something He wants? The Italian Bride! Well, dive into this dark journey of these two different burning spirits where The Devil meets his innocent Angel!

“What happens if I don’t give you what you want” “Then we’ll make you worship us on your knees, piccola.” Rafael muttered with certainty. Leone’s lips brushed my ear. “You’ll fight, you’ll curse…but in the end, amore mio, you’ll beg.” “…And you’ll beg for all of us.” Enzo added, as he crouched between my legs. Aurelia Reed has spent her life trying to outrun her family’s shadow. Being the daughter of a traitor, and a rising model means she has to work twice as hard to make a name for herself outside the Outfit. She is stubborn, opinionated, and the last woman who would ever submit quietly to a mafia marriage. But when her cousin refuses to wed, Aurelia is forced into her place, and handed to the infamous Moretti twins, two brothers who despise each other but are now bound to her. Different in every way, neither brother is particularly eager for her presence, and Aurelia quickly learns that her marriage is less about love than it is about survival. And then there’s Enzo, the youngest. He was never supposed to be hers, yet every stolen moment with him crosses another forbidden line. Caught between two husbands locked in rivalry and the brother she was never meant to touch, Aurelia soon realizes that in the Morretti's world, nothing is safe—not her heart, not her body, and certainly not the line she’s about to cross.