Where The Stars Land

“Apa? Calon istri dari desa?” “Pasti kampungan dan tidak modis.” Itulah ucapan Dante Julian Vascos saat sang nenek akan menjodohkannya dengan seorang gadis yang bukan dari kota tempat tinggalnya juga tidak selevel dengannya. Bak menelan ludahnya sendiri, seakan terkena karma atas ucapannya itu, Dante yang dalam pengasingan bertemu seorang gadis yang tak pernah dibayangkannya. “Ayo kita pura-pura menikah saja, biar saudara-saudaramu itu tak berbuat seenaknya lagi.” Ajak Dante. Ayo lanjut baca dan support karyaku dengan komentar membangun, folow akun GN atau IG @authorparadista. Semoga buku ini menjadi buku dengan tulisan yang lebih baik dari buku-buku sebelumnya, maaf apabila masih banyak kekurangan :) Terimakasih dan selamat membaca.

Karena dihina perawan tua dan selalu dibanding-bandingkan di dalam keluarganya, Nisa nekat membayar seorang pria untuk dijadikan suami pura-pura. Nisa rela membongkar seluruh tabungan miliknya dan mencari pria ideal untuk membungkam kejulidan keluarganya. Hingga pada akhirnya ia bertemu dengan Bram, pria pengangguran yang bersedia menjadi suami pura-pura. Akankah semuanya berjalan lancar sesuai dengan keinginan Nisa? Bagaimana reaksi Nisa dan keluarganya setelah tahu jika ternyata Bram—si suami pengangguran itu ternyata kaya raya dan cucu dari sultan perkebunan cengkeh?

My fiancé's first love was taking photos on a cliff before the landslide. To save her, he actually left me behind on the crumbling edge. I pleaded with him to save me. "Lucy isn't physically strong—she can't handle this alone. You've always been resilient. I'll get Lucy to safety first, then come back for you." Their silhouettes vanished over the ridge. After a brief commotion, everything went silent. Including me, with my freshly sprained ankle. When he saw the news of my death, he completely fell apart.

"Dasar jalang! Apa yang semalam kamu lakukan di luar sana, hah!?" Setelah dijebak untuk menghabiskan malam dengan pria asing di ulang tahun pernikahannya yang ketiga, Anya Stein diusir dari rumah dan diceraikan secara sepihak. Namun, karena kejadian itulah ia kemudian tahu bahwa selama ini, keluarga suaminya telah membohongi Anya. Ternyata Anya bukanlah gelandangan tanpa identitas seperti yang dikatakan oleh Edwin, suaminya. Sebenarnya dia memiliki identitas rahasia luar biasa yang mampu membuat semua orang tunduk padanya! Demi tiga tahun yang Anya habiskan menjadi boneka keluarga Stein, ia bersumpah bahwa ia akan membayar tuntas semua perbuatan orang-orang yang telah menyakitinya.

Four years ago, Alpha Matteo Donovan was drugged. On that crazy night, I became his cure. From that moment on, I was his most trusted Beta by day and his lover by night, tangled up in his sheets until dawn. Just when I started drowning in the heat of his gaze, his first love, Sabrina Monroe, came back. To please her, Matteo threw me to the pack’s borderlands, where it was rogue-infested. He even tore up Mom's keepsakes right in front of me. When I finally gave up and applied to leave the pack, Matteo suddenly began to look for me like he had gone mad.

A week before the marking ceremony, my fiance, Alpha Mason Wallace, suddenly switches the venue to Firefly Grove. His friends tease him. "You changed the venue just because Serena wants to see fireflies? And you didn't even tell Cora? What if she shows up at an empty site? "Besides, Cora's the one who picked Moonlight Bay. Do you really think she'll go along with this?" Mason says casually, "She burned her skin saving me. She won't fight me over a venue change. Besides, she planned every detail herself. She'll notice the update." I stand outside the doorway, listening in silence. Then, I slip away without a word. When the day finally comes, Mason calls from Firefly Grove, panic in his voice. "The ceremony's about to start. Where are you?" I stare at the shimmer on Moonlight Bay and answer calmly, "I'm already here. My ceremony is about to start too."

Seven years ago, my husband, the King of the Humans, banished me to the Everfrost Plains, where my life came to a tragic end. Seven years later, a grave illness befalls the Queen of the Humans, and blood spills endlessly from her lips. The clerics claim that I have cursed her. Only the blood taken from my heart can cure her fully. Gareth Lancaster, my former husband, comforts his new wife, the queen, and says, "You have nothing to fear. To think she's still trying to harm you, her older sister, even when she has been exiled! "I'll march to the Everfrost Plains right away and carve her heart out to use as your cure. Then, I'll have her soul sent to hell to suffer in torment for all eternity." Sword in hand, Gareth heads to the Everfrost Plains. He finds a Serpentkin, one who should've died in the Great War of the Beasts and Men seven years ago. The Serpentkin has frozen solid, standing before my grave with his hands clasped together as if in prayer. In front of my grave sits a young girl. She says, "You won't be able to take my mother's heart. She died many years ago. I stayed here to let the truth be known to all…"

I had taken leave from the sealed research institute where I'd been confined for six years, just so I could attend my daughter's kindergarten graduation. The moment I stepped through the gates, I froze. A woman holding a little boy by the hand was shoving my daughter, Amy, straight into the gutter. She slapped Amy across the face, then sneered for everyone to hear, spitting venom as she called my little girl a filthy wretch. Drenched in filthy water, Amy dropped to her knees before the woman, trembling in humiliation. Rage burned through me. I stormed forward and slapped the woman across the face. But instead of shame, she jabbed a finger at my nose and shouted, "Do you even know who I am? To offend me is to offend the entire Grant family!" Tears welled in Amy's eyes as she tugged at my sleeve, pleading in a choked voice, "Please leave… she's my dad's nanny. My dad will punish you if you hurt her." The woman planted herself in front of me, her arrogance towering. "The Grant family rules this city. You think you can run from us?" For a brief moment, I stood stunned, then calmly pulled out my phone and dialed my husband. "Your nanny says you run Bexley City. Well, I think that's about to change."

During a company team-building event, I collapse from a seafood allergy. Yet my fiance, Frederick Scott, rushes Beatrice Sutton, who only twisted her ankle, to the hospital. I come close to dying because I don't get treatment in time. Later, Frederick explains, "Beatrice is my best friend's sister. He's seriously ill now, and I promised him I'd take care of his sister. I swear I'll keep my distance from her from now on." This isn't the first time I've heard an excuse like that. On our fifth anniversary, Beatrice accidentally deleted a work file and burst into tears out of worry. When Frederick heard about it, he left me stranded on a mountain and drove back to the office himself. I spent a whole day and night walking home through the rain. On Christmas, Beatrice's house lost power. Frederick was worried that she might be scared of being alone, and he rushed over to her place without even telling me, leaving me out in the snow waiting for him until dawn. These kinds of things have happened countless times. Afterward, he always brushes them off with the same excuse. I've long since lost all faith in him and no longer believe a single word he says. I pick up my phone and call the company that keeps reaching out to me. "I've decided to accept your offer from last time. I'll bring the core technology with me."

My Alpha mate's childhood sweetheart and I are pregnant at the same time. To protect her reputation, he announces to the public that her pup is his. However, he claims that my pup is a bastard that I conceived after having an affair with another man. I go from being the noble Luna to a despised slut everyone scorns instantly. When I question my mate, Simon Latham, he shrugs and says, "Xandra has always been a goody two-shoes. She won't be able to handle the gossip from being pregnant without a mate. You're the Luna. Isn't it your duty to help your people?" On that day, any form of affection and love I ever felt for him die down completely. I secretly schedule an abortion and book a plane ticket. From now on, I will leave Simon for good.