What Maisie Knew Novel

**She thought she knew the man she loved. She was wrong about everything.** Vanessa Rodriguez's perfect life shatters in a single morning when she overhears her boyfriend Marcus discussing "loose ends" and how to "handle" her. The sweet daycare teacher who thought she was dating a banker suddenly finds herself running from a man she no longer recognizes—and straight into the arms of the most dangerous man in the city. **Alexander De Luca doesn't trust anyone. He can't afford to.** The ruthless mafia don has built an empire on fear and blood, but his six-month-old daughter Aria is his only weakness. When his longtime housekeeper can no longer care for the baby, Alexander needs a nanny he can trust. What he gets is a woman with secrets as dark as his own. **Some lies are worth dying for. Others are worth killing for.** When Marcus is gunned down in what appears to be a random mob hit, Vanessa has nowhere to turn except the penthouse of the man who just hired her. But as she settles into life caring for Aria, Alexander begins to suspect his new nanny isn't the innocent woman she appears to be. **In a world where trust is a luxury and love is a weapon, Vanessa and Alexander must decide what they're willing to sacrifice for the truth.** *Because some secrets are too dangerous to keep... and too deadly to tell.* --- *A dark mafia romance filled with betrayal, passion, and the kind of love that's worth going to war for.*

The year my girlfriend, Maisie Summers, and I were supposed to get married, I broke up with her. Later, she made it big and used every means necessary to force me to marry her anyway. Everyone says we're destined to be together from the start. Yet no one knows that after we got married, she's been bringing different men home every so often. I never react and pretend as if I don't see anything. While she sleeps around night after night, I silently count how many days I have left to live.

Steve Hart harus menelan pahitnya hidup ketika terus-menerus menerima perlakuan buruk dari keluarga istrinya. Semua berawal dari keputusannya menerima pernikahan kontrak yang diajukan oleh keturunan keluarga kaya. Awalnya, Steve sempat berpikir untuk bertahan saja sampai kontrak itu berakhir. Namun tak disangka, sebuah “sistem” muncul dalam hidupnya, sebuah kekuatan misterius yang memberinya kesempatan untuk bangkit dan membebaskan diri dari kehidupan menyedihkan yang selama ini menjeratnya.

"Jawab jujur pertanyaan saya, apa kamu orang yang tidur dikamar hotel saya?" tanya Kaivandra Sanzio Artamevia. Seana Xaviera Levannia menatap mata pria berbahaya itu, sebelum akhirnya perlahan&amp melangkah mundur. "B-bukan saya kok Pak--" .. Kaivandra Sanzio Artamevia, seorang pria yang paling dikenal di kota ini. Di pria kejam dan haus darah dengan kecenderungan menggunakan metode brutal, dan tidak menusiawi. Tidak ada wanita yang berani mendambakannya, meskipun Zio diberkahi dengan penampilan yang tampan. Tanpa diduga, seorang wanita berhasil tidur dengannya ketika dia sedang dalam keadaan mabuk! Ketika Zio mengacak-acak seluruh dunia hanya untuk mencari wanita misterius itu, dia baru menyadari bahwa tubuh sekretarisnya semakin berisi.     Apakah kebenaran yang selama ini ditutup rapat-rapat, akan terbongkar lewat kecurigaan Zio?

Roseline "Rosy" Parks is the black sheep of her family. A party- loving, seductress who has never had issues getting guys. She has moved through her life going between meaningless filings and a One-night stand. Not wanting to commit to anyone, she loves the freedom she has. When she met a stranger one night, he awakens something inside her. As it appears that she might have finally found someone special. There is a catch she's about to discover when he turns up in her life in a most unexpected way. In a web of lust, secret, sex and love. Let the game for their heart begin. But someone's might just get broken along the way.

How would you know that there's another world until you make it through? All her life, Claudia feels she doesn't belong to anyone much less when she and her family go to her grandmother's house in Batangas. The nineteen-year-old city girl has yet to find out what kind of journey awaits her. With a novel on her left hand and her younger sister on the opposite, they will embark on their journey of finding out what lies inside in a world she has never been before. Will she be able to fulfill her grandmother's wish before she passes away? Or will she find her anticipation of belongingness in the other world and stay there? "The person you're with on this journey will be yours forever."

Kayla Matthew is a bar waitress and a sex worker with secrets too heavy for her young shoulders. Struggling to care for her terminally ill mother and brilliant teenage sister even if it means dancing on the edge of her morals every night. But life has other plans for her. When she met Damien Cole, a billionaire, a heart surgeon, and a single Dad. A man haunted by a past he can’t outrun. When his cold-hearted ex-wife refuses to attend their daughter’s school event, he desperately hires Kayla to pretend to be the perfect mother. When he realizes she’s the only one who can calm his daughter’s panic attacks. His family was against bringing her into the mansion. But what they don't know is that it was never her plan to be a sex worker. What begins as a transaction spirals into something much deeper. But secrets and past wounds threaten to destroy the fragile bond they’re building. Because love was never part of the deal and promises? But what will happen if his ex-wife does anything to get her killed? Will she escape from the danger they are plotting against her.?

Luna Aulia dan Jaya Baya adalah sepasang suami istri. Hasil perjodohan yang di sebabkan oleh hutang budi keluarga Luna dengan Jaya Baya. Lalu bagaimana awal dari rumah tangga mereka berdua? Akanlah kisah keduanya sama seperti di dunia novel? Saling membenci lalu jatuh cinta? Atau malah sebaliknya mereka jatuh cinta sejak awal? Jika iya. Bagaimana nasib kelanjutan rumah tangga keduanya? Akankah rumah tangga keduanya bertahan sampai akhir hayat? Atau malah hancur di tengah-tengah karena orang ketiga? Atau hancur karena keegoisan Luna yang ingin mengejar mimpinya kuliah di korea?

--- Naila Rahma, seorang siswi SMA yang sedang berjuang untuk move on dari cinta yang bertepuk sebelah tangan, tiba-tiba terjebak dalam rencana konyol untuk pura-pura pacaran dengan Reyhan, teman sekelas yang terkenal dengan sikapnya yang kocak dan sering kali bikin malu. Rencana ini bertujuan untuk membuat cowok yang dia suka, Alif, cemburu. Namun, seiring waktu, Reyhan mulai menunjukkan perasaan yang lebih dari sekadar teman, dan Naila dihadapkan pada pilihan sulit: mengikuti perasaannya yang tertinggal pada Alif atau menerima cinta yang tiba-tiba muncul dari seseorang yang selama ini dia anggap remeh. Apakah cinta yang tumbuh dari kebohongan bisa menjadi nyata? Dan siapa yang akan benar-benar mengisi hatinya—Alif atau Reyhan yang penuh kejutan? ---

Reina tidak pernah menyangka bahwa kepulangannya ke kota asal akan membawanya ke perjodohan yang tak terduga, terutama setelah mengetahui bahwa pria yang dijodohkannya adalah tetanganya sendiri ketika ia masih di kota perantauan yang ternyata merupakan CEO perusahaan besar. Awalnya, ia menolak perjodohan tersebut karena tidak siap menikah. Namun, setelah mengikuti keinginan mamanya untuk menikah dengan pria yang dijodohkannya, Reina mulai menyadari perjodohan ini menyimpan banyak keterlibatan masa lalu yang membawanya ke dalam perjodohan ini.