Another Word to Say I Love You
Lisa tidak menyangka masa remajanya menjadi runyam setelah bertemu dengan Pramana. Lelaki bermata coklat seperti kayu yang merebut novel semi pornonya saat di toko buku itu ternyata guru olahraga di sekolah barunya!
Di sisi lain, Pramana mulai menyadari ada sosok cinta lamanya dalam diri siswinya itu. Semua pilihan yang datang seketika nampak abu-abu baginya. Ia mulai mempertanyakan profesionalitasnya sebagai guru setelah peristiwa kelam itu terjadi....
"Sekali lagi kukatakan, akulah biang keroknya."
"Jika kau tidak ingin membantuku, maka aku sendiri yang akan menghilangkannya dari bumi."
DOWN UNDER DOWN
Bias Sastra
"Aku masih menjaga kamu dalam pikiranku AUSTRALIA."
Haidar bangun dari tempat tidur. Mengusap wajah dan memandangi dinding kamarnya. Di sana ada brosur pendaftaran magister salah satu universitas di Australia. Sekolah yang menjadi impiannya saat ini.
Namun semua itu tidaklah mudah untuk di wujudkan, bertahun-tahun ia dan ibunya berpindah-pindah rumah demi menutupi jati diri mereka. Tinggal di rumah yang reot serta makan dari hasil belas kasihan orang.
Semua pekerjaan dilakukan ibunya agar dia bisa sekolah seperti anak-anak Aceh pada umumnya.
"Kau anak seorang pejuang. Kakekmu juga seorang pejuang. Jangan ada air mata untuk setiap masalah yang kau hadapi."
Kalimat itu yang diulang-ulang ibunya setiap kali Haidar menangis karena ejekan teman sekolah.
Terpaan ibunya tiap hari membuat keteguhan hati Haidar menjadi sekuat batu. Sama seperti namanya, Ibnu Haidar. Nama ini dalam bahasa Arab artinya, si Anak Batu.
The F Word
Paisley Brooke is a 29 year writer who lands a contract with one of the biggest publishing companies in the world. Despite her best friend's advice to date and get married, Paisley is only interested in her career and dislikes the concept of family.
Everything changes when she meets a single and irresponsible dad; Carter Reid.
Meanwhile, Kori Reese is Paisley's best friend and has been married to the love of her life for over three years. There's just one problem, they have no children, despite all their effort.
Being pushed daily and interrogated by her husband puts a strain on their marriage and she finds herself faced with the choice of staying, or leaving.
Safe Word: Rosé
Tania
Jason Trujilo employs Cara Thompson as a worker in his exclusive club in order to pay back the money her father owed. Once she paid off the debt, Jason tells Cara that she is free to go.
Six months later, Cara is doing well for herself, until Jason comes crashing back into her life, demanding that she leave with him.
Cara refuses to leave her new life, and Jason is hell bent on having Cara under his control.
So how will this story end?
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SNEAK PEEK:
Thirty minutes prior to lunchtime, Cara knocked on Jason's office, and after given permission, she entered the office with a stapled packet. Jason looked at Cara swiftly before focusing back on the blank screen of his laptop. She sat on one of the chairs, and stared at him from behind her glasses, waiting to be acknowledged.
A princess she was, but Jason didn't care to be her knight in shining armor. No. He would rather be the villain who trapped her in a tower and punished her for being so innocent and yet spoiled and self-centered and confident.
Crimson Break
Baxter Hamilton was born unique, yet he was a neglected child.
As he ventured into his teenage life, he crossed paths with a group of teenagers. He thought they shared the same challenges in life as he did.
However, what he didn't realize was that befriending this group of boys would take his life down a much worse path.
As for the butterfly effect, once it begins, when does it stop?
Spiraling Down
Peach Moonshine
The night before the company went public, my wife told me she had a surprise for me and reminded me to dress up for the occasion.
I thought she was planning to reveal our secret relationship, and I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep all night.
However, the next day, in front of everyone, she announced that I was a creepy obsessive admirer. On top of that, she revoked my promotion and gave my position to her first love who had just returned to the country.
Everyone was waiting to see me humiliated.
I froze for a moment but quickly composed myself, walking up to her first love with a faint smile. Then, I took off the badge on my chest and placed it on him.
“As the new director, you should celebrate, shouldn't you? How about a wedding? I’ll officiate for you two.”
Glaring at me coldly, my wife told me to get lost and stop embarrassing myself.
What they didn’t know was that I was the key connection holding the entire company together. If I left, none of the investors would back them anymore.
DOWN MEMORY LANE
Otteewrights
Meghan is happily married to the man of her dreams. Shortly after he gets deployed and never returns. Meghan finds love again after waiting so long for her first love. But her world turns upside down when he gets back. She's plunged into a life of confusion and dilemma.
A Word of Praise
Kiara sat at her small kitchen table literally bumping her head into the wood. Several times. Why the hell did she agree to spend four days in a island with loaded snobs she knew nothing about? Of course, she didn’t know exactly what she signed up for before she accepted his offer, but she knew it came from the guy who sent her to jail and said yes anyway. And based on what? A hunch. Something so intangible and arbitrary she would be unable to explain even to her dad, who was always a firm believer in following your gut. But she saw it, right there hiding behind his handsome stoic façade. He was… desperate. --All Kiara has in life is her passion for art. Her career as a circus performer is a constant search for real attention, for people to see through the veil of plain entertainment. Chris Wright is the heir to one of the most profitable construction empires of the city, but to get to the top he needs the approval of his authoritarian father. Who knows what will happen when art meets business and passion meets duty?
Dusk Till Down
eveawonyu
Rich privilege is real. I just got dumped after two months of dating. The reason is I'm not rich. My ex said, "Grace gives me everything I want. You're just an ordinary girl."
Instead of crying ugly, I'll shine to the highest level until their necks hurt from looking down.
However, my path up the level ladder wasn't as smooth as a child's romance. I must work hard under a boss who drives me crazy every day.
He's too crazy. Even the blind date was my decision, he was the one who decided to be my partner.
Break The Ice
Myles Astor has two dreams: to become wealthy and get his mother away from his monstrous stepfather. To do that, he has to at least become one of the star players on the school hockey team—a free pass to a bigger league.
But when his position is taken by the school's bad boy and billionaire heir, Tristan Medici, Myles is devastated and vows to get it back.
Until the one-night stand.
At Break Time
Linguistics I. Interval. Linguistics II. From the beginning of the semester, she knew that this whole young and hot professor thing wouldn't work out so well.
She was divided. Her heart went to one. Her hormones wouldn't let her stop thinking about the other. Did she really have to make a decision?
All the time, libidinous thoughts invaded her mind, distracting her from her studies.
Was keeping a secret but at the same time open relationship with both of them really that immoral?
Isn't that how men behave?
The big problem will be when the two professors meet and decide to clear up some gossip, right at break time.
Nail It Down
My husband and mother-in-law fell off the cliff in my past life. I was pregnant and fell into a coma. I could not take the blow and had a miscarriage. A few days later, the neighbors informed me that my child could not be saved and urged me to see him for the last time. The corpses of my husband and mother-in-law were nowhere to be found. A year later, our house was demolished. However, I accidentally consumed paraquat. I saw my husband and my mother-in-law when I was dying.
"Finally, we got rid of you. My grandson and my daughter-in-law can finally marry."
Next to my mother-in-law was Jessie Charles, the girl next door, and a little boy.
MR. CEO is down for Trouble
Arazella Snow
He is a 24 year old heir to his father's company.
She is a 28 year old lady, fired from her last job for burning the CEO with hot tea.
A fiery one she is, not until she meets a man, who is just intent on breaking her.
A Clean Break
Time's Serenade
My sister, Yvette Chandler, and my boyfriend, Gabriel Johnson, have never gotten along. She doesn't believe that he, a playboy, will settle down and be faithful to me. She even tries to stop us from being together after he proposes to me.
To convince her of Gabriel's loyalty, I sign up for a new WhatsApp account to test him. He's frosty toward me and keeps me at arm's length.
I'm gleeful over this when he suddenly sends me a voice message. "I already told you I won't fool around with anyone other than you and your sister. Who's going to satisfy you once I'm married when you're so insatiable, Yvette?"
Another Chance
Maye
19 years old Emily Watson has never understood what happiness is in most parts of her young life and she desperately wishes for a change and a saving grace from the constant wrath of her abusive step-parents but what will she do when she finds out her mate has been waiting for all her life is the cruel and cold-hearted Luka Demetrius? Will he be her saving grace or an unimaginable horrifying thunder to her raging storm?
Another chance
SallyB
Duke Patrick is a 38 year old doctor.He is married to a lovely lady named Alicia who later dies mysteriously.He later meets his old highschool friend Amanda and decides to give love a second chance by marrying Her.Later on he is threatened by his step brother to give him the diamonds their father left or his pregnant wife be killed.
Expert Down The Mountain
To repay his master’s kindness, Cyrus was forced to get married. But to his surprise, his wife is a beautiful female CEO, and she offered him thirty million dollars as a wedding gift…
Burning It All Down
During my wedding, hundreds of photos of me being sullied flutter down from the top of the church, landing before the guests below.
My fiancé instantly calls off our engagement and turns to kiss my sister.
Devastation washes over me. Just then, my childhood friend Derek Church, the Capo of the Church family, the East Coast's most powerful mafia family, pulls me into his arms.
He kicks the church's door open and presses a check worth a million dollars into my father's hands. He pulls me to the priest and has him announce that we are husband and wife.
I'm so touched that I agree to marry him. From then on, I become the Capo's wife.
Two years later, Derek and I finally conceive through IVF. I want to share the exciting news with him when I overhear his conversation with his subordinate.
"Lilyanne is afraid of pain and becoming ugly, so we can use Nicole to give birth to her child. Once she produces an heir for the Morse family, her position will be solidified. Then, the Morse family will become the Church family's MadeMan."
"As expected of you, boss. You knew the Morse family is full of politicians who would never accept a sullied woman into the family. The only way for Lilyanne to marry into the family was by having Nicole sullied."
My blood runs cold when I hear this, and the pregnancy report in my hand feels unbelievably heavy.
The man I thought was my salvation was actually the devil who pulled me into the abyss.
I dry my tears and call the Capo of the West Coast's mafia family, Derek's nemesis. "I have a way to help you become the mafia Capo dei capi. Do you want to work with me?"
LDR (Lock Down Romance)
Mary Ann “Maan” Perez resigned from her work as an office secretary in their province to apply as a Customer Service Representative (call center agent) in Manila. After receiving a message from her prospective employer for a scheduled interview, she decided to contact her cousin to tell her to fetch her at the bus terminal in Manila for she will be staying with them for a week. Unfortunately while on her way to Manila, her cousin Joan, had an emergency to attend to and would not be able to fetch her. Instead Joan’s cousin from her mother's side of the family came to fetch Maan. Virgil ‘Gil” Velasco (Joan’s cousin) who lives in his own apartment brought Maan to his house with an agreement that Joan will be fetching Maan that day. Later that day, Joan called to inform them that she could not fetch Maan because her mother is suspected to have contracted COVID-19 and needs to be under observation for at least 14 days and if it wasn’t bad news enough, an announcement was made that night that the government decided to put National Capital Region (NCR) and the entire Luzon under lock down. Going in and out of the area is prohibited for 1 month!Locked in together for a month, will they catch the virus called love and start a romance or will it end when the lock down ends?
Down the Rabbit Hole
Cielo Yap
History repeats itself in many ways. Maybe for the family, the love, or even for yourself. Would you be willing to go back to the past to be able to change the history? Sacrifice yourself and change the fate of those who are in the present and in the future.
Like Lia, living in a modern world, who is very contented in her life despite being adopted and having a risky relationship in the meantime that can end her in many ways. And that is why, some things, some pasts are better kept hidden and not known. Would she go back to where history started and change it for the better?
Then Lia stays in the past, stuck on her own fate. Will it be the further destruction, or the salvation of her history?