The Second Husband Novel

Eidolon Avenue: Where the secretly guilty go to die. One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards. The sequel to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (“a great read...powerful and jarring” - Cemetery Dance) returns to the voracious Eidolon as it savors The Second Feast. A narcoleptic man in apartment 2A battles a vengeful past determined to rob him of everything as he runs from the barbaric disaster of a delusional love. A woman in 2B, reinventing herself to please a callous boyfriend, discovers the horrors that wait in the shadows of her self-renovation. The man in 2C, a teacher at the nearby Catholic girl’s school, collapses beneath the brutal consequences of his lecherous desires. An older woman in 2D, after decades dedicated to the church, is cornered at last by the grisly carnage beating at the hollow center of her faith. And a college student in 2E, hungry to escape an ignored life of invisible anonymity, finds herself captured between the pages of a ravenous book. All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every drop of spilled blood, every silent, complicit moment of cowardice is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

“I'll marry you” Lauren Greene said the words in utter desperation. Getting married to a disabled man whom she had never seen until that day was not something she had ever imagined she would do but when her mother had a cardiac arrest and needed an emergency surgery, she didn't care. This was her only choice. Alexander Magnus lost his parents in a hit and run accident which left him disabled at the age of ten. He went abroad to study afterwards, returning after twenty years to take over his father's company. The only person he ever talked to was his childhood friend and saviour, Melissa McCarthy. He cherished and loved her with his whole heart but much to his dismay, she never showed up for their court wedding. There he met Lauren Greene. Lauren Greene who is desperate to get her mother out of her deadly condition. She's ready to stoop low and get married to the disabled Billionaire if it means saving her mother. But what happens when Melissa gets bored and decides to claim back Alex as hers? Will she fight for his love or flee just like she has always done? Will Alex and Lauren ever get to have a happy ending or would her mother's sudden death which ties Alex has a suspect destroy them completely? Or will the new man who happens to be Alex's rival, Tom Devon, the billionaire who has set his eyes on her and vow to claim her, succeed in making her his forever? Find out in this tale of a woman caught up in a love triangle.

Lavina Vanessa, gadis berusia 20 tahun, yang ceria dan sedikit kekanak-kanakan tiba-tiba terjebak dalam pernikahan yang tidak pernah dia bayangkan. Sang suami, Auriga Space Ivander, adalah seorang pilot tampan berusia 30 tahun yang memiliki pesona Cassanova. Namun, di balik pesonanya itu tersimpan rahasia-rahasia yang membuatnya semakin misterius. Bagaimana Lavina akan menavigasi perjalanan hidupnya yang baru dengan sang duda pilot? Dan, ketika bayangan masa lalu muncul dalam bentuk mantan istri yang tiba-tiba kembali, pernikahan mereka menjadi taruhan besar. Apakah cinta mereka cukup kuat untuk menghadapi badai yang mengguncang biduk rumah tangga?

Life has a funny way of throwing curveballs, and for Ella Blake, it was a fastball right to the heart. On the same day she discovered she was pregnant, her husband, Lucas, dropped a bombshell: his childhood sweetheart, Amy, was also expecting—and he wanted Ella to raise the child. Talk about a double whammy! Devastated and feeling utterly betrayed, Ella packed her bags and left the life she once knew, vowing never to look back. Fast forward six years, and she's back, but with a new look and a fierce attitude. Lucas can’t believe his luck when he spots her, mistaking their chemistry for a chance to rekindle their past. But with secrets, old feelings, and Amy reappearing with her own bombshell, can Ella find a way to reclaim her heart, or will revenge take the wheel? What will happen when the past collides with the present?

~𝑺𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒊𝒌-𝒃𝒂𝒊𝒌 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒉 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒇𝒂𝒂𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒌 𝒑𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒂~ 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒂𝑨𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒉 𝒃𝒂𝒈𝒊 𝒚𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒎 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝒊𝒏𝒊 𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒇𝒂𝒂𝒕. Khalisa Kaifiya Daneen, gadis berhijab tersebut terpaksa pindah dari pesantren ke sekolah modern yaitu SMA Gentara. Khalisa terpaksa menikah dengan seseorang yang selalu mengusik hidupnya karena suatu kejadian yang tak pernah disengaja. Namun mampukah Khalisa bertahan dengan suaminya yang terkenal suka gonta-ganti pacar setiap minggunya?

Si Yara Valerina ay isang college working student na mayroong simpleng buhay kasama ang kaniyang ina. Ngunit ang lahat ay magbabago dahil sa pagdating ng isang lalaki na gugulo sa maayos niyang buhay na walang iba kundi si Hunther San Diego ang isa sa kinatatakutan at kilalang business man na kalaunan ay kaniyang mapapangasawa. Hindi dahil ito ay mahal niya kung kaya siya ay pumayag na magpakasal ngunit dahil ito ang kailangan niya. Contract marriage is a trap of love, it's a trap and now I fall deeper in love with her. — Hunther San Diego

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Ivana is forced by her father, the wealthy man in Orange County, into a contract marriage. To a man, she doesn't love, to save his collapsing company. What started as a plan thoroughly set ends tragically. Love found and lost. Ivana finds herself in between a rock and a hard place. The man he was married to turned out to be a rude, badly behaved man. Moreover, he was a spiteful and impudent ingrate who didn't seem to appreciate anything his wife or father-in-law did for him. Well, that was not new to Ivana, she only married Paul to secure her inheritance, save the company and her lover. She had married Paul to protect Sammy. What happens when Ivana finds out that Paul was cheating on him with his previous lover? That her married was only a sham? That there was a hidden motive behind their marriage? In time honored, will the tangle gets sorted out and true love wins in the end?

After Father's death, everything falls apart. My stepmother seizes the inheritance and leaves us with nothing. Just when I think we can finally breathe, fate hits us harder—Dongju's accident leaves him clinging to life. With hospital bills piling up, despair becomes my only currency. Then, the President Director makes an offer I can't refuse: money for Dongju's treatment, in exchange for marrying his son, Byun Baekhoon—a man whispered to be gay, and heir to one of the most powerful conglomerates in the country. I sign the contract with trembling hands, thinking it's just a business deal. But Baekhoon isn't who I expected. Behind his cold eyes and calculated words, he hides something darker—something dangerous. And the more I try to survive this marriage, the more it feels like I'm burying myself alive.

Anastacia Solei Alcaraz, a devoted daughter and caring sister, found herself unexpectedly thrust into a whirlwind of change. Growing up in modest circumstances, she took on the responsibility of supporting her family after her father's passing. However, fate took an unexpected turn when she became a personal assistant to a wealthy businessman, leading to an unforeseen marriage after a fateful night. Now faced with the repercussions of a spontaneous wedding and a life-altering mistake, Anastacia grapples with the question of whether love and commitment can overcome the chaos that has suddenly entered her carefully built world.