The Summer Solstice Nick Joaquin

Duyung? Merman? Putra Duyung? Keana tidak dapat menjelaskan apa nama sosok di depannya ini, yang pasti makhluk ini bukan manusia sepertinya. Makhluk ini ditemukannya di pantai, meraung kesakitan saat ekornya berubah menjadi sepasang kaki, dan perubahan itu tepat di depan matanya. Menakjubkan atau mengerikan? Yang pasti saat Keana ingin berteriak, makhluk itu menatapnya tajam dan Keana bagaikan tenggelam di mata biru makhluk itu. Mata biru sang Manusia Setengah Ikan.

Kaluna harus menahan segala bentuk rasa sakit yang keluarganya tinggalkan sejak Ia kecil. Ia terpaksa harus bertahan hidup berdua bersama sang adik setelah semua yang terjadi dan bertahun-tahun keduanya hidup dalam kesulitan. Traumanya terhadap bayang-bayang sebuah keluarga dan masa lalu yang pahit membuatnya hidup terbelenggu ketakutan. Hingga disatu titik, Ia ditemukan dengan Delvin, laki-laki misterius dengan masa lalu yang menyedihkan. Akankah keduanya dapat menuliskan cerita yang indah pada akhirnya? Akankah cerita mereka berakhir bahagia seperti mimpi keduanya?

Arga adalah pemuda biasa yang meninggal karena penggunaan teknologi oleh 7 penguasa untuk memajukan industri yang berefek pada kematian manusia tanpa masker pelindung. Banyak orang yang meninggal termasuk ayah, ibu dan adik Arga dari keluarga miskin yang tak mampu membeli masker. Alam sekitar juga rusak. Arga hidup kembali lewat reinkarnasi, dengan fisik berbeda tapi berjiwa pendendam yang sama. Selain kematian Arga dan keluarga, ada juga kematian Sando kekasih Maya. Maya dan Arga dendam dan membuat kerjasama untuk mencegah makin meluasnya kerusakan bumi akibat ulah 7 penguasa. Karena saling membutuhkan, tumbuh cinta diantara keduanya. Tentu saja ini dilarang karena Maya sesungguhnya putri penguasa ke-7, Mr Albert. Keadaan makin sulit waktu Sando hidup lagi lewat reinkarnasi. Maya jadi mendua hatinya, antara kembali ke Sando atau memilih Arga sebagai penyelamat harga dirinya dulu. Siapakah yang akhirnya akan dipilih Maya dalam cinta segitiga ini? Bagaimana keseruan perjuangan mereka bertiga mengalahkan aliansi 7 penguasa? Akankah Arga tetap teguh sebagai manusia pilihan The Peacemaker?

Tana is a fire dragon, one of only four Elemental Dragons left in the world. For nearly a year she has been fighting in the Arena, a supernatural gladiator fighting ring where you fight to the death. Most die in their first competition. Others survive a couple of weeks. Only a few have survived this long. She has hidden her true identity from everyone. If they knew what she was, her fate would be worse than the arena. Cedric is an Alpha werewolf. When he was captured by hunters, he assumed his pack would find him quickly and free him and the other shifters. When they never come for him, he is forced to fight for his life in the Arena. It is here that he meets Tana. They form a bond and help the other survive. Cedric is sure that Tana is his mate and assumes that she is an Alpha werewolf. When they finally get their chance to escape, Cedric identifies Tana as his mate and in a night of passion, he marks her. Only, when he sinks his teeth into her neck, he feels power like he has never felt before and he realizes she is no werewolf. Confused and angry at what he considers a betrayal, he leaves, only to return to find her gone the next morning. One night of passion was all it took for Tana to become pregnant. After being rejected, she goes to the city and makes a new life. For five years she has avoided werewolf packs, hoping to never see Cedric again. But he has been searching for her since the night he left. What will happen when business brings them together and he finds that Tana has a daughter? Will he accept her or will he reject her again?

Kehidupan Liliana Shakira berubah 180 derajat setelah pertemuannya dengan Lucas Wang. Pria tampan yang merupakan aktor terkenal papan atas yang tengah terlibat skandal. Dan pertemuan mereka di awali di kolam renang dimana Lucas tinggal sementara, untuk menghindari kejaran para awak media. Tanpa Shakira ketahui Lucas telah menghuni rumah di sebelah rumahnya yang ia pikir kosong karena pemilik telah pindah. Shakira gadis yang cantik, memiliki tinggi 165 cm dengan kulit putih bersih bak porselen juga bentuk tubuh dambaan kaum Adam, mampu membuat Lucas melakukan hal gila dengan memperkosanya. Namun dari sanalah awal kisah mereka. Lucas yang candu akan kegiatan panasnya dengan Shakira meminta wanita itu untuk menjadi penyelamat atas kasus skandalnya. Juga sebagai alibi untuk menuntaskan hasratnya pada Shakira, memanfaatkan dan mengurung Shakira dalam genggaman tangannya. Namun siapa sangka, pria berusia 28 tahun dengan wajah bak dewa Yunani dan bentuk tubuh proporsional itu kalah dari permainannya. Shakira berbeda dengan para wanita yang mengejarnya. Bahkan Shakira tak mengenalnya sebagai aktor terkenal di pertemuan pertama mereka. Shakira juga lebih memilih lepas darinya dan mempertahankan perasaannya pada sang mantan. Wanita itu bahkan membuang kartu atm dengan saldo ratusan juta yang Lucas kirimkan tepat ke wajahnya. Namun bukan Lucas namanya jika tidak bisa mendapatkan wanita yang ia inginkan. Ia akan mendapatkannya apapun yang terjadi, meski harus melepas status aktor yang sebenarnya sudah lama ia ingin berhenti, juga mengorbankan nyawanya sendiri. Ditambah melewati kedua orangtua Shakira yang ingin membuatnya mati karena tak merestui. Namun semua berbuah manis saat Shakira menyadari bahwa ia telah jatuh hati, pada Lucas dan pada semua yang Lucas lakukan sebagai bukti. Lucas rela melepas statusnya sebagai public figure hanya untuknya, bahkan rela mati di hadapan orangtuanya guna menunjukkan kesungguhan hatinya. Dan ia tak akan ragu lagi bahwa ia bersedia menemani Lucas sampai akhir hidupnya.

“You shouldn’t be here,” Lucien growled as he pinned my wrist against the stone pillar. His breath was hot, and I could see the storm brewing behind his eyes. °•○♡♡~♡♡○•° A Queen betrayed A warrior sworn to protect her A mate obsessed with getting her back A kingdom on the edge of war Framed for a crime I didn’t commit, I was dragged in chains, tortured, and left to die by the very man who once held me like I was his only reason to live. Rescued by a mysterious warrior with ties to the old gods, I return, four years later, as the Moon Goddess’ heir and his worst nightmare. Holding a secret that could change everything, his twins. As war brews, the Moon Goddess herself watches from above and I must make a choice. The mate who broke me… Or the warrior who built me back up? One will fight for me. One will destroy everything to possess me. As rival lovers clash, ancient secrets unravel. The world must bow, because a Queen never forgets.

As Jastrelle's golden girl, I draw lots to pick my groom, and fate finally hands me Felix Ledger, the childhood sweetheart I've wanted forever. During the impromptu wedding, a funeral convoy belonging to a scion of a rich family in Jastrelle passes right outside. I hate the omen. Felix laughs, pulls me into his arms, and places the veil over my head himself. "I'll take it as a good omen. With you, I'm covered from first breath to last," he says. His adoptive sister, Winnie Ledger, hears him, bursts into tears, and bolts outside. The funeral convoy runs her down, and she dies. Felix barely reacts. Three years later, Dad is framed, driven into bankruptcy, and falls gravely ill. He dies, and I lose everything. At the funeral, Felix sends everyone off, shoves me into the open grave, and buries me alive. He spits, "You rigged everything to get me. You left Winnie ruined. She bolted outside, and that funeral convoy ran her down. For three years, remorse has eaten me alive. I want you torn apart! "With your last protector gone, I can finally make you suffer a hundredfold the pain Winnie felt and ease my hatred!" When I open my eyes, I'm back at the groom-selection ceremony. Dad smiles as he hands me the lots. I shake my head, look out the window, and point at the funeral convoy passing outside. "I'm not choosing anyone. I'll marry that dead man!"

Once, the love between me and my mate, Logan Hunt, seems almost invincible. He loves me, and I love him. Even if no one knows I'm the wife of Hunt Corporation's CEO—and our relationship remains a secret—we still love each other deeply. Until one day, his childhood sweetheart, Bianca Miller, returns to the city after a divorce. Since then, Logan has started coming home late. It hits me that our love may be nothing more than my one-sided feelings. I'm only one of his many. When Bianca moves into our home under the excuse of unfinished renovations, disrupting our private space, I know our relationship is destined to fall apart. If anyone is going to leave, it has to be me. So, I disguise the Mate Bond Dissolution Agreement as an inconspicuous document and make him sign it. Everything is on track until fear and anxiety dawn upon me. I find out I'm carrying a pup. Deep in my heart, I know Logan would never allow me to take away his pup. Therefore, I shrink myself and avoid him. The moment the agreement takes effect, I leave quietly, carrying our pup, an existence he knows nothing about. By the time he finds out the truth, I'm already gone from his world…

On the day of our daughter's birthday, my husband brought the daughter of his true love home.The little girl had her arms wrapped around my husband's neck. She pointed at me and asked, "Dad, who is she?"My husband tried to comfort her. "Baby, she's the nanny that I've hired for you."I tried my best not to be affected by the pain in my chest and bowed respectfully. "Mr. Frost, Please pay me for the work that I've done for the past seven years..."My husband laughed angrily. "You're such a gold digger!"Well, I indeed love money. Why couldn't I love money? I was dying and needed to make preparations for my daughter in advance. Not only that, but I also would make them all pay the price!

Because my jealousy endangered his childhood sweetheart, my Alpha mate, Victor, took our son's advice. He sent me to the pack witch to have my memories erased.​ A long winter later, he woke me with the antidote.​ In the eyes of the pack, I became the perfect Luna.​ I organized the pack's winter stores flawlessly. I cataloged every last berry and pound of meat without breaking a sweat. I could even smile while delivering a blanket to Clara, Victor's precious sweetheart.​ But my Alpha and my pup, Rio, knew. I had changed.​ I no longer remembered how to soothe him on full moon nights, combing through his fur as he writhed in pain.​ When Rio fell in the snow and wailed, I calmly called for his nanny.​ Even when Victor returned late from a hunt, I offered only a cool nod. I never once reached for him through our mind-link.​ At first, he thought it was revenge. He didn't care.​ Until the night of the blizzard, when he and Rio followed me to the abandoned church. Through the thin wood of the confessional, they heard my whisper.​ "Moon Goddess, what do I do when the memories are back but the love isn't?"​ "The witch gave me back what happened, but when I look at my Alpha and my pup... they're strangers to me."​ "I feel so tense and awkward just being in the same room. What am I supposed to do?" Outside, the man and the boy just froze. They finally understood. Some things, once broken, can never be fixed.​