The Man With The Twisted Lip

My husband is poor. We've already been married for three years, but I've covered all our expenses during that time. Even when I'm interested in a cheap bag when we go shopping, he says it's too expensive. He tells me not to buy it. Later, I discover that he gives his first love a four-million-dollar diamond necklace for her birthday. It turns out he's not broke and heavily in debt—he's the heir to an affluent family with a net worth of billions of dollars.

Harrison Monroe has been secretly in love with his best friend, Rhett Langley since they had an "experimental" affair between their junior and senior year of high school. They agreed to remain best friends and not let anything change between them, but everything changed for Harrison. Now older and leading their own lives, Harrison is yet to forget that steamy summer they spent together. When he gets asked to be Rhett's best man in his wedding to a woman named Rebecca, Harrison is put in an awkward position and goes through a journey to put his personal feelings aside and support his best friend. Then comes the bachelor's party where Rhett pulls Harrison away and they share another steamy moment. Harrison asks himself if it was only the alcohol in his system or if Rhett truly has romantic feelings for him as well, and with the wedding just around the corner, he's too fearful to ask. Now Harrison has more questions than answers and has to decide whether to swallow his pride and let Rhett marry a woman he may not truly love or take his chance at his own happily ever after and object at the altar in front of everyone.

“Breathe... Breathe Cassandra... Breathe...” She was about to give the best show of her life… But never did I imagine I was going to become the star of it. From the moment that our breaths mingled and our skins melted. She became the only reason that I breathed. MY ONLY DESIRE TO LIVE. Living a life ruled by my father and the ever-burning demands of his mafia empire; if ever I was going to defy it all, then it was going to be for her. And that was exactly what I did. I was determined to watch it all crash down and burn. Start a war. ALL FOR HER. Except I never imagined the secrets that I would uncover. The truths revealed and the lies that would be untold. A life perfectly orchestrated by the hands of the ones that I thought I could trust. So I had a choice… I could lay my soul bare and let her slice me open… LOSE IT ALL. Or play it safe and obey the code by which we lived… Was it ever a question? Ever a decision that needed to be made? She was my blind desire. AND SHE WAS ABOUT TO TEACH ME HOW TO LOVE.

Lucian Philippe Segovia is a happy go lucky type of guy aside from the fact that he is one of the top Young billionaires of the country Maloko siya, lalo sa mga babae. Mapagbiro at minsan bakya ang trip kahit pa saksakan na siya ng yaman. When he met Thea Denise Vergara ay nahulog agad ang loob niya dito pero di gaya ng mga babaeng nakakasama niya, mailap ito at masungit, at ang dahilan, kasi mayaman siya. Thea hates mingling with the rich kaya naman para mapalapit siya dito ay nagpanggap siyang mahirap.  And when Thea already learned to love him too, saka naman nito nadiskubre ang katotohanan sa pagkatao nito.  And that broke her trust kaya siya lumayo kay Lucian.

She coveted everything about me. My possessions, my experiences, and even my men. So one night, my mother pushed me into an older man's bedroom. The next day, she asked with a smug smile, "Nina, how was your night with the older guy?" I rubbed my sore waist, recalling his broad shoulders, long legs, and trim waist from the night before. I smiled as I answered her. "That fiancé of mine is all yours now. Just remember—I’ll be your Aunt-in-law in the future.”

Max Exsten; pria berusia 36 tahun ini memiliki paras yang tampan sehingga membuat siapapun tergila-gila akan ketampanannya. Selain itu, Max merupakan seorang duda beranak dua bernama Jessie Exsten dan Jasper Exsten. Jessie dan Jasper merupakan anak kembar yang berbeda jenis kelamin yang dilahirkan dari rahim seorang wanita cantik bernama Tiffany Austin.Tiffany harus menghembuskan napasnya saat usia kedua anaknya masih sekitar 1 tahun, karena mengalami kecelakaan dan mayatnya tak kunjung ditemukan hingga usia Jessie dan Jasper sudah mencapai 5 tahun. Dan di usia seperti itu, mereka pasti akan membutuhkan seorang ibu, namun Max tak kunjung memenuhi keinginan anak-anaknya. Bagi Max, menikah lagi bukanlah prioritasnya saat ini. Yang menjadi prioritasnya adalah Jessie dan Jasper. Hingga kedatangan seorang wanita berwajah sama dengan Tiffany pun membuat hati seorang Max tidak tenang. Bagaimana mungkin orang yang sudah mati bisa hidup kembali? Ikuti terus kisahnya dan temukan jawabannya ^^

Si Allysa Enrile ay isang manang, ngunit walang kinakatakutan. Para sa kanya 'manang is the new fashion' at siya ang magpapatunay na hindi lahat ng manang ay inaapi. Dahil kahit manang siya ay hinahangaan siya dahil sa tapang niyang harapin ang mga bully. Tahimik ang buhay studyante niya kasama ang dalawa niyang pinsan, at syempre ang maganda niyang ate na pantasya ng mga kalalakihan sa Villafrancia Universal School. Nang bigla niyang makilala si Adrian Villafrancia, ang pikon na anak ng may-ari ng Eskwlehan na pinapasukan niya. Nagkaroon ng hindi pagkakaunawaan sa una nilang pagtatagpo. Hanggang sa lumala ang bangayan nila, at lagi silang nagkakaharap. Madalas siya nitong kontrahin, supalpalin, at awayin. Ngunit ang madalas na bangayan ay nauwi sa pagkakamabutihan at pagmamahalan. Pero hindi nagtagal, habang napapadalas ang kanilang pagsasama. Habang lumalalim ang kanyang pagmamahal kay Adrian ay siya naman pagkagising ng poot sa puso niya. Poot para sa magulang nito na siyang sumira sa Pamilya niya. Habang nakikita niya ang Pamilya nito na masaya ay nasasaktan naman ang kalooban niya. Dahil ang mga ito ay masaya samantalang silang magkapatid ay nagdusa at nawalan ng magulang. Kaya ba'ng pawiin ng pagmamahal ang sakit ng nakaraan o magiging daan lang ito nang panibagong sakit para sa dalawa? Mapapatawad ba ni Allysa ang pamilya ni Adrian o sasaktan niya ang binata para makaganti sa pamilya nito? Magkakaroon ba ng happy ending o magiging tragic ang patutunguhan ng relasyon nila?

I stare at her while she's bent down. "Are you deaf?" I asked her again and she didn't answer me. "Hey!" I can't stop myself from shouting at her because I think she doesn't know how to speak. Napahawak ako sa aking ulo dahil tanging pag-iyak lamang ang tanging sagot niya sa lahat ng taong ko. I rested and looked at her. "Anong pangalan mo?" I ask her in Tagalog words because maybe she's not understand me. "J-Judy p-po S-Senyorito," she answered me while she's shaking. Now I understand that she doesn't understand me if I speak English. I can't stop from smelling and thinking what punishment I should do to her. Because she's my slave at isa siya sa pagmamay-ari kong alipin.

11 September 2001, yang juga dikenal sebagai peristiwa 9/11, adalah titik balik peta perpolitikan dunia. Sejak hari tersebut, situasi geopolitik, terutama untuk umat muslim di dunia, tidak pernah lagi sama. Rais Hoetomo adalah seorang ilmuwan dan juga pengusaha berkebangsaan Indonesia-Amerika. Peristiwa 9/11 yang dialaminya secara langsung membuatnya berpikir ulang dan mencari jawaban atas semua pertanyaan yang menghantui dirinya. Pertanyaan - pertanyaan tentang tujuan ia dilahirkan, serta apa yang harus dilakukannya sebagai seorang Muslim.

They say fire is cleansing, a transformative type of destruction. After a forest fire, nature heals and grows stronger. It's forever changed but not destroyed. Fire is painful but beautiful, something that is warm but left unattended can be devastating. In the flames I was broken, destroyed, but in the ashes I was restored. Left floating in the grey, the smoke that led me through a divine transformation. Now I'm left adrift, the dark my only guide in the smoke, the blue of the sky, of his eyes, the only guide in the light. Forever torn and pulled between the two, unsure who I can trust and terrified to make the wrong choice. Not just my life hangs in the balance, but the lives and well being of all of humanity. It just might be too much for these wings to bare.