Estrella Del Pop

After the company's entire plane crashed and everyone on board died, we all found ourselves transported into a novel, tasked with winning the favor of a queen. The system's icy voice issued its prompt: [The queen's male consort possesses a voice as melodious as a lark's.] Our handsome secretary smiled with quiet confidence. That very day, he stationed himself along the queen's usual route and began to sing a modern pop song. The queen was thoroughly pleased. She summoned him onto her carriage. Our colleagues looked on with unconcealed envy. "Looks like the bonus is his." "How lucky. The queen is wealthy and beautiful. Not only does he get to spend the night with her, he'll make a fortune too." But the next day, we saw the secretary hanging from a tree in the royal garden. His body was completely naked, riddled with arrows, his eyes still wide open in death. The voice he had once cherished was now a vessel crammed with thick, crude bamboo spikes. At the same time, the system's cold notification sounded once more. [All challengers' lives have entered the countdown. Please complete your conquest as soon as possible.]

Venus Harristian adalah penyanyi pop wanita yang sedang berada di puncak kariernya. Ia sempurna bagai namanya. Lembut dan penyayang. Setia dan penyabar. Sosok wanita yang menjadi impian semua pria, termasuk Gareth Moultens yang menjadi calon suaminya. Namun sebuah ancaman pembunuhan dan teror membuat keselamatan Venus jadi riskan. Pasalnya, ia tak sengaja menjadi satu-satunya saksi mata sebuah kejahatan pada pesta di sebuah hotel. Oleh sebab itu, Kakaknya Rei dan ayahnya Arjoona sepakat mempekerjakan seorang kepala pengawal baru yang memimpin tim keamanan khusus melindungi Venus sampai tiba saat ia memberikan kesaksian di pengadilan. Arjoona bahkan pulang ke Indonesia demi menjemput pria bernama Dion Elang Juliandra yang berprofesi sebagai polisi untuk menjadi pengawal pribadi putrinya. Apa yang akan terjadi saat benih cinta muncul kala Dion dan Venus semakin sering bersama? Di saat bersamaan, Dion dan Venus sama-sama telah memiliki pasangan yang menanti untuk mengikat janji di altar pernikahan. Mampukah kesetiaan dipertahankan dan menjadi jawaban?

Si Hestia Angela Gonzaga, isang sikat na pop idol, ay may madilim na sekreto: isa siyang assassin na sinanay ng Phantom Syndicate. Matapos masaksihan ang brutal na pagpatay sa kanyang pamilya noong bata siya, isinumpa niyang maghiganti sa mga mafia na sumira sa kanyang buhay. Ngayon, bilang CEO ng sarili niyang entertainment agency, ginamit niya ang kasikatan upang mapalapit sa kanyang target: si Demetrius Skye Van Heuffman. Si Demetrius, isang malamig at walang awa at makapangyarihang German-Filipino na mafia boss, ay bumalik sa Pilipinas bilang CEO ng isang multi-bilyong kompanya. Sa muling pagtatagpo nila, sinimulan ni Hestia ang kanyang plano—nagpanggap siyang kasintahan nito upang makalapit, makakuha ng impormasyon, at pabagsakin. Ngunit habang lumilipas ang panahon, hindi niya maiwasang mahulog sa lalaking dati niyang kinamumuhian. Ngayon, nahaharap si Hestia sa matinding laban: itutuloy ba niya ang kanyang misyon ng paghihiganti, o susundin ang puso at isusugal ang lahat para sa isang pag-ibig na maaaring magwasak sa kanya?

"Listen to me girl, you will go to that pack one way or the other and I don't care how you do it but you will bring my that red gem of vitality. seduce him if you have to, kill him if you must but you must never return without that gem of vitality" Father let out in a growl, dark fury burning behind his steel blue eyes. ** Isla Dalton has lived in abuse all her life. Her father, the Alpha of Blue moon pack, treat her worst than he does an omega and eventually sells her off to a rival pack in a bit to retrieve the gem of vitality if she wants to see her sick mother ever again. Due to her refusal to to her father's bidding, Isla was beaten to a pop and passed out only to wake up to the realization that she has been sold off as a slave to Red moon pack. Isla is even more shocked to find out the man she is meant to steal from is none other than ruthless Alpha Alex and even more that he turned out to be her fated mate. Isla is now face with the challenge of betraying her mate in order to see her mother again or vise versa. It's a decision she had to make before her three months of staying in the pack runs out.

Dante Moretti, the ruthless Billionaire CEO, hungers for power and control. Cold, calculated, he sends shivers down his rivals' spines with his cold, calculated way into any business deal that might pop up in his way. But inside the steely exterior of this man, a traumatic past torments him to have left him detached and numb as regards love. His goal is simple: solidify his control and paramountcy and build on an empire. Lyra Caine grew up privileged in a family that had disintegrated; the fortune of her father, Richard Caine, once a strong king of finance, had shrunk due to a number of bad investments. She needed to be married off to Dante Moretti, a man rumored never to have shied away from getting ruthless in whatever business dealings he had, so that their name would not be utterly ruined. Lyra had lived her whole life by what this great shadow of a father expected from her: fragile, with this inner fire barely apparent in herself. But here is the kicker that makes it even more twisted: Dante isn't marrying Lyra out of love or even because of business needs. He has an ulterior motive linked to her father's long-buried secrets, one that could totally unravel her family should it come to light.

His songs were better when he had a broken heart. That sentence would change my life after my dream job was dished to me on a shiny, silver platter. All I had to do? Hurt Nash Pierce enough to get him writing good music again. The pop icon’s songs were no longer the phenomena they used to be. His team needed another breakthrough album—like the first he’d penned, using his heartbreak as fuel. The plan was simple: I’d go on tour with him as a backup dancer…and make him fall in love with me. I was hired to inspire—to become embedded into every lyric he wrote. Then, I was to set fire to it all—to destroy every feeling we hoped he’d develop for me. It seemed simple enough. Easy, even. I didn’t expect to be consumed myself—to see so much in the man displayed in the tabloids. I didn’t foresee falling for him. It didn’t occur to me that, while attempting to break his heart, I might just shatter my own. Most of all, I never thought I’d fight so hard to hold on to a relationship that had always been founded on goodbye.

I accidentally saw a notification pop up on my husband’s phone saying that an automatic transfer had been completed when I was using it for navigation. Immediately after that, his ex-girlfriend, Wanda Blake, sent him a message on WhatsApp: [I’ve received this month’s 10,000 dollars for child support. Thank you, Koah. I don't know what I would have done without you.] I froze. “Child support? “Koah, you told me that the money you send every month was for medical expenses for your mother’s treatment!” Koah Quinn’s expression stiffened as he explained, “Honey, don’t misunderstand. I just felt that life has become really hard for her because she’s a woman raising a child on her own. Her ex-husband refuses to pay child support, so I wanted to help her out…” I touched the old watch on my wrist. The one I had not replaced in years to save money, and felt extremely disappointed. “Your monthly salary is only 6,000 dollars. Where did you get so much money to send her?” He was silent for some time before finally admitting. “I used the money we had set aside for the new house’s downpayment.” I was stunned. He had taken the money my parents had scrimped and saved for decades for me as downpayment for a home and then transferred it to his ex-girlfriend as child support.

En la Noche de la Luna Cenital, el heredero del trono celebró un gran banquete en el Palacio de Mármol. Aquella noche, decidió expulsar a todas sus consortes del harén solo por su favorita. Mientras otras recibían oro y regresaban con alegría a sus hogares para reencontrarse con sus familias, yo no tenía a dónde ir. Solo podía quedarme en silencio, en un rincón, sin ningún lugar a donde ir en este mundo. Lo único que pude encontrar fue una venda de seda blanca para colgarme en la entrada del palacio abandonado. Llegué a este mundo desde otra realidad y, durante veintiún años, intenté completar las misiones del sistema, que era conquistar a los cuatro hombres más influyentes del imperio. Pero uno tras otro… fracasé. Y ahora, en el último objetivo también había fallado. El sistema me dio una única salida. [Cuando este cuerpo muera, podrás regresar con tu familia.] Y antes de que comenzara a desvanecerme y abandonar este lugar, me dirigí al portón del palacio abandonado. No dejé palabras de despedida, ni tampoco dejé rastro de mi existencia. Solo el silencio. Y entonces… en medio de la oscuridad, juraría haber escuchado voces desesperadas gritando mi nombre desde el interior del palacio.

Estuve embarazada del cachorro de mi compañero destinado. Del cachorro del Alfa Seth. Pero durante doce años, se negó a reconocer lo nuestro. Era su secreto. Su sanadora. Nada más. Ni siquiera permitió que nuestro cachorro, Leo, le dijera papá. Todo porque odiaba que el destino eligiera a una pareja “impura” como yo. Aseguraba que lo había drogado, que lo había atrapado usando a un niño. Faltó a la ceremonia del Primer Aullido de nuestro cachorro por irse con otra hembra. Una Beta poderosa llamada Sarah. Esa fue la gota que derramó el vaso. Lo rechacé. Me llevé a mi cachorro y escapé. Dicen que el orgulloso Alfa se volvió loco. Que el dolor del rechazo lo destrozó y que comenzó a buscarnos por todos lados desesperado. Pero ya no hay marcha atrás. No existe el perdón.

Anya Moore is a pop sensation with lots of people who look up to her, though her passion is something else. Sadie Ozoa wants to chase her dreams and doesn’t want to take no for an answer, but it feels like she doesn’t have a choice. But unexpected decisions they made had created unfaithful circumstances that have brought two different individuals together. Next unthinkable move: run as far away from the situation that could have led to their wishes. They don’t know how they ended up walking together and they don’t know why. But all they want to do is to escape from the environment they were surrounded in. Anya and Sadie thought they would be distant but with every step they took, they started to know so much about each other and what they have one thing in common: they hated how the world has become. They then thought what if they rebuild Earth where it is all ruled by them--and only both of them. The two then thought what if we start to make it a reality? As they go on the journey to create their own world, Anya sees that Sadie is more than an outcast and Sadie sees that Anya is more than just a star--they are each other’s world. But with the world that is against their odds, will they be able to show their truth? In this first debut comes a coming-of-age story about realizing that in order to survive the world, you must choose whether to follow the rules or break them for the sake of doing something right.