The Licked Hand

"Who the hell are you?" "What the hell are you doing in my apartment?" A story between two neighbors and an incident that slowly draws them together *Disclaimer* this story has strong language and violence

Pencurian sebuah lukisan yang menghebohkan. Lukisan kuno dan antik yang tidak diketahui secara pasti siapa pemiliknya. Dan akhirnya jatuh ke tangan seorang kurator yang kemudian memamerkannya di salah satu balai seni yang terkenal. Namun lukisan itu ditengarai telah ditukar dengan lukisan palsu setelah lukisan yang sama muncul dalam koleksi seorang kolektor. Pada akhirnya kedua lukisan itu dinyatakan palsu oleh para ahli. Lantas dimanakah lukisan yang asli? Dan apakah yang sebenarnya terjadi? Benarkah lukisan itu ditukar? Atau dicuri? Atau mungkinkah lukisan asli itu memang tidak pernah ada?

Lexie Velez knew that college would be difficult. At eighteen years old, she knew that the obstacles she would face would each make her want to go running from the place she would call home for the next four years. But after a steamy night out celebrating with her new roomate, Lexie realizes the mistake she made when she walks into class and comes face to face with the man who had just taken her virginity.

The journey of four siblings who fight the ups and downs of life to get successful futures. Follow the lives of Stacey, Gloria, Avery and Madison As they face everything head on with their own unique characters.

Kiara Margareth, adalah seorang siswi dari kalangan biasa yang harus beradaptasi dengan murid ambisius dari kalangan elite. Perangainya lugu namun penuh tekad. Caldera High School nama sekolahnya, pencetak murid-murid genius yang mengharumkan nama bangsa. Suatu hari, setelah Kiara mengatur ulang jadwal belajarnya, ia berhasil meraih peringkat pertama paralel Caldera High School atas penilaian semester pertama kelas XII. Berada di tiga besar selama hampir tiga bulan, perlahan Kiara mengerti betapa gilanya Caldera. Dapatkah Kiara bertahan di lingkungan ambisius? Atau memilih teori evolusi Darwin dimana semuanya saling bersaing untuk bertahan hidup (seleksi alam)? Mungkinkah keadaan berubah seperti yang dikemukakan Lamarck dimana semuanya beradaptasi menurut lingkungan tanpa ada persaingan (teori adaptasi)? Temukan kelanjutan kisah Kiara di sini!

After running away from home seven years ago to escape a loveless arranged marriage, Kyra Wilder has finally mastered up the courage to be back in her small town of Ruthwell in Washington DC. She’s ready for a second chance with her parents and the people who used to be her friends back in high school and most of all, she’s ready to tell her parents that she’s about to become a bride. But the small town she lived in hasn’t changed all that much in the past seven years and no one seems to have forgotten her betrayal, or seems anywhere near ready to forgive her for her past mistakes. Everywhere she goes, she’s met with hostility and anger and it’s thinning out her chances of redemption ever second. Now, how does she tell her parents and her friends that not only has she moved on in her life, further than anyone had ever anticipated, but she’s happy and successful in what she does? And amid all the truths and revelations, how does she tell everyone that she isn’t marrying a man, but the woman of her dreams?

Victoria, "Tori", a young lady fresh out of nursing school landed her dream job at the prestigious Hidden Falls Medical Center. Her boss asks her if she would work at a home with a young man injured in a house fire. When she learns he is the next Alpha to the Hidden Falls Pack and all of her fears and anxiety returns. Memories of her mother taking her away from her father, an Alpha himself, due to infidelities and growing up with twisted horror stories of werewolves told by her mother just to keep her away from her father. Learning at a young age that she has a Genesis wolf, or healer wolf, but unable to shift, she decided to use her abilities to help others. Little does she know that her father has been searching for his little girl for seventeen years. After looking for her in every town, city, and even a few other packs, his Beta, Victor, and his Gamma, Eric, have stumbled upon her by sheer chance. Having known Tori when she was a little girl, Victor is excited and impatient to find her and bring her home. He is so close until he learns from Eric, who happens to be Tori's best friend's fiancé and mate, that she will be going to another pack, just out of reach. As her friend comes along to the pack as her assistant, she works with the injured Alpha, who turns out to be her fated mate, but later rejects her, she learns more about her abilities, and the power she possesses, and desired by the greedy Alpha who will stop at nothing to have her, even after rejecting her. But a second chance mate is ultimately her savior and has been with her all along.

Androkles: I am Lord Androkles, heir of Ares and son of former Lord Zeus. I've spent a lifetime in the shadow of a prophecy told long ago. All of Olympus believes I am the harbinger of their doom, The Destroyer. Is my fate set in stone? It always felt like it until I met her. Ismene-Eirene: I am Ismene-Eirene, daughter of a prominent horse breeder of House Poseidon. My life has been spent feeling like a bird in a cage. I thought nothing could ever free me from that cage. A night of chaos and bloodshed led me to The Destroyer. Can he destroy this cage?

Makenzie, born of human and vampire. she is the only of her kind. by day she lives like a human and by night she's a vicious vampire slayer. one night of patrolling, she stumbles upon a young woman, trapped in a dark alley by a group of vampires. Anita, an orphan since birth, has no one. she works nights at a 24hr restaurant/bar as a waitress. she keeps to herself having never had anyone to show her love. one night she was walking home from work when a group of vampires corner her in alley.

Pertemuan tidak disengaja dengan siswa berandal berkedok siswa teladan mwngubah kisah sekolah Viona yang biasa saja menjadi tidak biasa saja. Viona adalah murid biasa saja yang tidak pernah menyangka akan bertemu dengan siswa teladan yang menyembunyikan sosok lain dalam dirinya dan membuat kisah hidup Viona berubah drastis. Evan adalah siswa teladan yang menyembunyikan sisi lain dirinya, namun pertemuannya dengan Viona membuatnya merasa bahwa rahasianya akan terbongkar saat Viona melihat ulahnya dan berusaha membungkam Viona dengan cara apapun.