The American Roommate Experiment A Novel

Marsyilaya Sukmawati, lebih akrab dipanggil Syila. Mahasiswa akhir kampus ternama di Universitas Negeri Cilacap (UNICILA) Kabupaten Cilacap. Duduk di bangku program studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, ia bercita-cita menjadi guru bercap PNS atau minimal P3K di tingkat sekolah dasar. Rutinitasnya saat ini banyak direpotkan oleh skripsinya. Syila, gadis berparas anggun dengan pipi mungil dan tinggi badan tak sampai 160 cm. Ia berasal dari keluarga sederhana bersama kedua orang tuanya dan seorang kakak laki-laki. Ia juga gadis modern yang punya pola pikir terbuka. Keluarganya ketat mendidiknya dengan sentuhan-sentuhan halus ajaran agama. Perjalanannya meniti cita-cita tak semulus paras ayunya. Lika-liku dan medan terjal kerap menghadang niat dan tekad cita-citanya. Ujian bertubi-tubi dari berbagai arah hampir berkali-kali mematahkan semangatnya. Lantas, sampai manakah Syila sanggup menghadapi rentetan cobaan hidup? Akankah ia tiba di titik impian yang didambakannya? *** Rendika Rama Saputra, pemuda berusia dua puluh empat tahun yang banyak dicambuk kerasnya kehidupan. Ia tengah memulai karir di sebuah perusahaan peninggalan orang tuanya yang entah di mana keberadaannya. Ia memiliki seorang adik di bangku SD. Ia berjuang untuknya bersama seorang asisten rumah tangga yang telah menemaninya belasan tahun. Pertemuannya dengan Syila menghadirkan warna baru di kehidupan hitam putihnya. Meski tak jarang bertengkar, ia menyadari kenyamanan bersama Syila. Semesta selalu menawarkannya celah bertemu dengan sang gadis. Kehidupan Rendi yang kelam masih terus menggelayutinya. Urusan dengan kekasih kontrak tak sedikit menimbulkan masalah hebat di hidupnya. Dayanya kerap terkuras saat bermediasi dengan kekasih yang tak pernah dicintainya. Kekelaman itu kian pekat tatkala kedua orang tuanya mendadak merebut adiknya. Tentu kali ini Rendi takkan membiarkan kemalangan terus menyapa hidupnya. Lalu, bagaimana ia memadamkan ledakan-ledakan drama kehidupannya? Dapatkah ia menjumpai kebahagiaan juga ketenangan yang dinantikannya?

Kehilangan sang kakak dan dikhianati sang pacar, seketika mengubah hidup Andien Clouwi jadi begitu menyedihkan. Ditengah kesedihannya, Andien malah dipertemukan dengan Edgar Mathew, pria mengesalkan. Yang tanpa sengaja keduanya bertabrakan saat di dalam kereta api. Akibat insiden kecil tersebut, Andien melakukan kesalahan kecil, berujung dituntut oleh Edgar dengan memberi dua pilihan sulit. Kira-kira kesalahan apa, ya yang dilakukan Andien? Penasaran, pilihan sulit apa yang diberikan Edgar untuk Andien? Yukk, temukan di; Aku Yang Dikhianati Mendadak Nikah Dengan Presdir

Hanya karena pulang kampung tidak bawa mobil, gosip tentang Sutiati dan rumah tangganya jadi berkembang tidak karuan. Terlebih karena Sutiati tidak diantar suami. Awalnya, Sutiati memilih menutup kedua telinga daripada berusaha menutup mulut orang sekampung. Namun, semakin dibiarkan kok hati semakin terbakar, ya...? Tampaknya, Sutiati harus melakukan sesuatu!

Number 1: Kidnap the Mafia's Wife. Number 2: Great, the bitch is gone. Stage an accidentally-on-purpose meet up to get his attention. Number 3: Have his eyes on me the whole night. Number 4: Let him take me home. Number 5: Experiment: take one; put a gun to the bastard's head. The last thing Indigo Mae expected was for a terror from her past to come knocking on her door at midnight. And by all means, the last thing she could have possibly hoped for was this little visit being the reason she gets roped into a twisted and deadly experiment, using the most dangerous man in the continent as her labrat. All Indigo ever wanted was a breakthrough. Unfortunately, life has other surprises. And it all begins with her getting thrown, hands tied, into a sinister Mafia world of conspiracies, lies, desires and death. Or, in other words, this mad man called Alessandro Ferrara.

‘My roommate, pregnant with my boyfriend’s child, and I bought the pregnancy test for this?!’ Enraged after learning her boyfriend and roommate were seeing each other behind her back, Maya wanted to enact revenge on the pair for making a fool of her. On Jayden for tricking her into a relationship she cannot escape from, for her inheritance. When a chance meeting occurred with a very intimidating werewolf, Maya may have found her chance to get vengeance, and be free from the shackles her ex had placed onto her. Only… “Alpha…? He’s the Alpha?!” From one situation to another, Maya may have found herself in a trickier case, having to now play the role of Alpha Zeke’s girlfriend. All to satisfy his grandmother. Will a human like her be able to handle the pressure of being an Alpha’s beloved? Even if it was just an act?

Novel ini bisa di baca secara terpisah meskipun saling berkaitan. Ini adalah kisah cinta tiga wanita dalam menemukan pasangan hidupnya. Kisah yang ringan dan manis, tentunya dengan sedikit bumbu-bumbu konflik yang membuat jalan cerita lebih hidup. Buku satu berisi tentang kisah cinta Alya, di mana dia menemukan cintanya dengan cara perkenalan dengan orang yang belum pernah dilihat dan dikenal sebelumnya. Menikah dengan pria yang baru dikenal beberapa bulan tentu saja ada hal-hal yang belum dia ketahui tentang suami maupun keluarganya. Shock culture menjadi bumbu manis dan kedatangan mantan pacar dari suaminya menjadi konflik yang memanaskan suasana. Buku dua berisi tentang kisah cinta Mayang, di mana gadis itu mengejar dan mencari pria yang mungkin menjadi jodohnya. Namun ternyata Allah lebih tahu apa yang terbaik buat dirinya. Ini kisah manisnya Mayang dalam menemukan jodohnya. Buku ketiga berisi tentang pernikahan yang terjadi dengan terpaksa antara Fitriana dan Davin. Pernikahan yang tentu saja tidak disukai oleh Fitriana karena Davin bukanlah pria yang menjadi tipe idamannya. Mungkinkah Davin bukan jodoh dari Tuhan buat Fitriana. Novel ke empat berisi kisah pemuda yang dikhianati oleh kekasihnya setelah dia berkorban banyak hal demi cita-cita sang wanita.

After lights-out, I make my roommates play with an Ouija board with me. Being the scaredy-cat she is, my roommate decides to ask something stupid, "Where did my earphones go?" I almost burst out laughing. I can't believe she's using it to find her earphones. To our surprise, the planchette starts to move. It spells out, "It's under your bed beside the eye." We exchange glances in confusion. What eye? I snort and get out of bed. Using my phone's flashlight, I check under the bed. Nothing is there. Before I can make fun of my roommate for being superstitious, the door slams open. The student who stays next door barges into our room, her face as pale as a sheet. Her voice trembles as she shouts, "Wake up! Everyone on campus is going wild! Someone found an eyeball in our dorm!"

Sejak kematian tunangannya, Donghai, Li Meihui memilih meninggalkan dunia balet yang dulu menjadi hidupnya. Setiap langkah tariannya kini terasa hampa, setiap kenangan hanya menambah luka. Hingga suatu hari, ia bertemu Kim Rain—seorang musisi yang melihat kesedihan dalam tarian yang tak lagi memiliki makna. Rain tidak pernah meminta Meihui untuk melupakan masa lalunya, tapi ia memainkan melodi yang secara perlahan membimbingnya untuk melangkah lagi. Di antara nada-nada yang tercipta, Meihui mulai menemukan dirinya kembali. Dan kali ini, ia menari bukan untuk mengenang seseorang yang telah pergi, tetapi karena ia ingin. Namun, bisakah musik dan tarian menyembuhkan hati yang telah lama terjebak dalam kesedihan? Ataukah Meihui akan menemukan alasan baru untuk terus menari bersama seseorang yang tak pernah ia duga?

School had just dismissed us for the exam-break when my roommate begged me not to leave her alone in the dorm. She said she was scared and wanted to come home with me. Out of kindness, I brought her back with me. I had no idea that the very first night, she would sneak into my brother's room, and by the next morning, she was screaming that he had assaulted her. Because of that, my brother missed the exam, and his reputation was ruined. When the school board found out, they expelled him. No other school would take him in. To keep me from getting involved in this mess at school, my parents had no choice but to let that roommate live with us. After that, she treated our home like her personal hotel: never lifting a finger, demanding that my parents wait on her every night, and even having them wash her feet. My brother dropped out and took up work at an illegal factory just to support her spending. Then one day, a machine crushed him at that factory. My parents, already exhausted and heartbroken, fell gravely ill and passed away soon after. I was consumed by hatred. In the end, I dragged the roommate who destroyed my family down into the flames with me. Even as I died, I still couldn't understand. What kind of bitter grudge did her family have against mine for her to ruin us like that? But when I opened my eyes again, I was back on the very day she asked to come home with me…

The carnivorous ways of the Aswang leave little room for love - much less a forbidden one between a queen and human girl. Little did Aswang Queen Catarina know, soon, her life would be changed by a plucky American biologist. A blue eyed, blonde adventurer, Rose Smith from California, who would make Catarina question all she knew, and want to make a human Her Aswang Woman King. ___ Catarina Rosales Marquez, 26, is the Aswang Queen of the Domminga Mountains, but she abhors eating humans. She has genetically engineered the fruits of her goddess Ikapati to produce human proteins in order to bring peace to Mindanao - but the Aswang do not trust this revolutionary, peaceful Queen - and are wary of the American biologist she has taken under her wing. Rose Smith is a German-American biologist doing her dissertation on the elusive, endangered Phillippines Eagle. Having studied the Tarsier in her undergraduate semester abroad in Manila, she fell in love with chicken adobo, pandesal - and Filipina women. Eager to be the first American biologist to do a longitudinal study of the Phillipines Eagle, she sets out into the Domminga Mountains on a bus with a one-way ticket - not afraid of the local's warnings of the rabid Iktapati Aswang Clan that eats humans, and roving bands of Tikbalang werehorses that stampede trespassers to death. When Catarina and Rose collide, it is oil and flame. Catarina, expected to marry a King, finds herself questioning the very cosmos of relationships - can she take a Queen, and a feisty American grad student at that? And can Rose come to terms with the elusive, seductive courts of the Vampiric Aswang? When the Iktapati clan rebels, the Tikbalang war, and the wind spirits coquette, Rose and Catarina must team up to save the humans of Mindanao - and the Phillipines eagle!