Thomas & Friends Belle

Di hari acara pernikahan, pacarku, Thomas Samono, tiba-tiba menghentikan upacara pernikahan. Hanya karena Yana Amerta mengunggah di media sosial bahwa dia telah kembali. Thomas membuang cincin pernikahan rancangannya sendiri dan meninggalkan tempat upacara pernikahan tanpa menoleh ke belakang. Aku terdiam di tempat dalam balutan gaun pengantinku, kakakku yang sedari tadi menopang melepaskanku, “Cindy Marissa, kamu selalu kuat, aku tahu kamu bisa menghadapi ini sendiri, sekarang Yana lebih membutuhkanku daripada kamu.” Setelah mengatakan itu, dia juga pergi. Mereka pergi demi wanita yang sama, meninggalkanku sendirian. Malam itu, setelah membereskan kekacauan acara pernikahan, Yana mengirimkan foto kepadaku. Dalam foto itu, Thomas dan kakakku berada di samping tempat tidurnya. Kalung buatan Thomas ada di leher Yana. Gaun pengantin rancangan kakakku dikenakan oleh Yana. Semua barang-barang ini seharusnya milikku. Akhirnya aku menyerah dan menelepon sambil menangis, “Ayah, ibu. Aku berubah pikiran, aku ingin pulang.”

Lily, a reserved girl finds herself bound by a contract to marry Thomas Weston, a ruthless heir of a billionaire empire. Her father, overwhelmed by a $400 million debt to a Geoffery Weston, a powerful billionaire, and Thomas’s father, enters a desperate agreement to use his daughter as collateral. Upon his death, she is thrust into an engagement with cold and merciless Thomas. She takes up a mission to save him while performing the contract which is the reason Geoffery Weston wants her to marry irredeemable Thomas. Complicating matters, Simon Weston, Thomas's half-brother, returns home after eight years away. He is her former love and carries his own vendetta against his father and stepmother. As he reenters their lives just in time for the engagement, old feelings resurface, and his desire for revenge complicates the situation. Thomas is determined to fulfill the contract and exert his will over her. He finds himself in a fierce battle not just with his half-brother, but with his own heart though cruel mother opposes the union. Lily is torn between her obligation to her father's debt and her rekindled love for Simon.

For ten years, Lily was the anchor. She worked three jobs, endured a repressive upbringing, and poured every cent into a future with Thomas, the man she believed was her soulmate. But when Thomas finally returns from abroad, the "happily ever after" Lily bought and paid for is revealed to be a meticulously crafted lie. The betrayal cuts deeper than infidelity; Lily discovers that her ex best friend has been a part of Thomas’s double life. As she uncovers dark truths about their history and the real reason Thomas was there for a decade, Lily realizes she was never a partner—she was a pawn. Stripped of her illusions and fueled by a cold, simmering rage, Lily realizes that to destroy people of their influence, she needs a power she doesn't yet possess. Enter Julian Vane, a mysterious and formidable figure with his own vendetta against the same circles that ruined Lily. Together, they strike a bargain: a marriage built on strategy rather than love. As Lily steps into a world of wealth, secrets, and shadows, she must decide how much of her soul she’s willing to lose to get even—and whether her new marriage is just another heartbreak waiting to happen.

Para kay Belle hindi basihan ang mukha para mahalin mo ang isang tao. Sa kabila ng lahat na kasungitan sa kanya ng asawa na si Russell, at sa katakot-takot na mukha na meron ito ay pinatunayan ni Belle na handa niya itong mahalin. Para sa kanya ang pag-ibig walang pinipili. Guwapo man o pangit kung titibok ang puso wala ka ng magagawa kundi sundin ito. Pero matanggap pa kaya niya ito kapag nalaman ang tinatago nitong sekreto?

Jenia Rosendale tidak pernah berani meminta kesempatan kedua untuk dicintai. Karena sepanjang pernikahan, Thomas Evra, suaminya, mendeskripsikan perasaan dengan cara berbeda. Ketidakadilan yang selama ini diterima, disimpan rapat-rapat dalam diam. Lalu kepingan *puzzle* masa lalu tiba-tiba datang berwujud Jamael Morgan. Jenia mencoba menggenggam, lalu belajar untuk melepaskan. Sayangnya, semesta lagi-lagi tak berpihak. Cinta antara Thomas dan Jamael membuatnya berada di puncak rasa lelah. Apakah Jenia akan kalah oleh semesta? Atau malah membiarkan salah satu di antara lelaki itu membalut luka atas lara tak berkesudahan? Siapa yang dipilih Jenia, Thomas atau Jamael yang berstatus sebagai adik iparnya sendiri?

Eliza Ward does not fall through time. Time bends toward her. Pulled from the present into Revolutionary America, Eliza becomes trapped in a landscape where history repeats unevenly, battles restart with variations, and memory functions as both anchor and weapon. She is not a chosen heroine, but a constant: a woman whose awareness destabilizes the moment itself. She meets Mercy Hale, a midwife and witch who understands time as a negotiation rather than a force to command. Mercy aids Eliza’s survival while refusing the role of savior, having already learned the cost of standing too close to history’s center. During a looping battle, Eliza saves Thomas Reed, a Continental soldier who does not shift when time does. Thomas is an anchor: steady, observant, unchanged across iterations. Their bond deepens in an almost-normal village where time briefly behaves. Eliza’s intervention triggers time’s response. Rather than immediate destruction, time collects interest. Mercy bargains to spare Eliza and Thomas, sacrificing her own future to stabilize the present. Time extracts payment from Eliza as well, stripping away her voice, the very tool she uses to name and hold moments in place. Silenced and unmoored, Eliza is violently displaced back into the original battle. Unable to anchor the moment, she watches Thomas die in the version of history that was always waiting beneath her defiance. Told in rotating perspectives between Eliza, Thomas, and Mercy, The Hours That Refused to Behave is a lyrical time-travel novel about revolution, restraint, and consequence, asking not whether history can be changed, but who pays when it is.

What Anna Belle Vasquez wants, she gets. That’s why when she meets the cold, vicious and heartless varsity swimmer of UC, Kristoff Liam Mendez, she already marked him as her target. Hell or High Water, he will be hers. The problem is, Kristoff doesn't want Anna Belle to dominate him, won't look her way and he hates her to death. In the end, she gets rejected. Five years have passed, and they meet again. The worst, Belle becomes his secretary. Can she still get him and own him? Or will he be her sweetest karma? *** Excerpt: “I… I thought you like me too,” It came out as a whisper. I didn’t know why I felt like crying. I heard him let out a sarcastic laugh. “Like? You? I told you many times that I hate you. It doesn’t mean that I fuck you; I already like you, Belle. I admit it was good. But that’s just it. It’s just sex. No feelings at all.”

She wanted to be free, but did that mean surrendering everything to Damien and his whims? Tired of her domineering husband, Valerie Tanner decides it's time to start a new life somewhere else. However, when she moves to Live Oak, her brother's friends show her a life of total abandon where someone else calls the shots, and she has no choice but to obey. Once she gives in, Valerie descends into a dark morass of exploits that leaves her reeling and craving more, even though she fights each order she's given. Her mind screams at her that it's wrong, but her body pleads for her to continue. The question now is: how far will she fall before she loses herself? Or, is this the path to show her who she truly is?

Perfection was the curse. I was born into wealth, beauty, influence, and a family empire that stretched across continents. People envied my life, not knowing it was nothing more than a gilded prison. The only thing that ever felt real was ballet, the passion my parents forbade because it brought them no power, no profit, no leverage. My parents; greedy, ambitious, unfillable, hid their cruelty beneath luxury. And on my eighteenth birthday, they revealed the ultimate betrayal. I was engaged to a powerful man twice. . . no, three times my age. A man feared across Europe. A man whose hands were stained with secrets the world pretended not to see. They sold me to strengthen an alliance. So I ran. Barefoot, shaking, heartbroken. I stole one of our visitor's chopper and fled to Sicily, thinking distance could save me. I thought I escaped the monsters who owned my life. But I only ran into a darker one. Because Sicily is his territory; Aldrick Moretti, the shadow king of the Italian underworld. Cold. Untouchable. Beautiful in the most devastating way. The man people whisper about as if speaking his name is a sin. A man with eyes that see through lies. . . including mine. And the moment he found me trespassing on his land, bleeding, terrified, and wearing the remnants of a runaway bride. . . He didn’t return me. He didn’t free me. He claimed me. Not as a business deal. Not as an alliance. But as something far more dangerous. He became my captor, my protector, my obsession, and the forbidden flame I should never have touched. Because in his world, love is not tender. It’s a weapon. And I am the sacrifice wrapped in a veil he refuses to let go.

[𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐋𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 2] Natashira Amary Fuentabella, is a kind, soft-hearted lady who love her parents to the moon and back. She's a good daughter would do everything for her family even to marry the hottest, heartless, CEO of the Montenegro Corporation named; Zarchx Montenegro. Hindi madali para sa kaniya ang kanilang pagsasama dahil palaging ipinaparamdam sa kaniya ni Zarchx kung gaano siya nito ka hindi gusto at sa mata nito isa siyang daga na hinain ang sarili sa isang mabangis na Leon. Suntok sa buwan para kay Amary na ibigin siya ng isang Zarchx Montenegro ngunit sinong mag-aakala na ang pagmamahal niya sa asawa ay kaya nitong suklian ng higit pa. Ngunit paano kung dumating ang isang trahedya na magpapabago sa kanilang buhay? Ang pusong nagmamahal ay hindi madaya. Ngunit paano kung nakalimot ang isipan ay tinatraydor na ng mga alala? Minsan may mga taong pinipilit na maging madaya para sa pagmamahal na hindi na tama. Ngunit paano kung sa tagal na panahon ang lumipas muling magtagpo ang landas niyo ng taong inakala mong patay na at may sarili ng pamilya. Ano ang kayang gawin ng dalawang taong nagmamahal?